AW: Video Disk Recorder version 0.63

[Plamen Ganev <pganev@com-it.net>]

> I believe we are shooting with cannons at pigeons here.

I Agree. VDR is a program to watch and record TV. It's not meant to be a
coffee machine also.

> I love the way Klaus has implemented it - lightweight
> with just a few lines of C++ code. I do not even want
> to install a db system on my video recorder, let alone
> learn how to use it.

The only point of having a Web frontend or public dbase is that the current
scanning features of the driver are almost useless (it won't find all
channels, and will lock in several occasions).

But what we actually want is to be able to generate a channels.conf file
from a general source (people use DVB2K, Excel lists, Access dbases and so
on).

So why don't we write converters for UnknownSuperFormat->VDR instead of
writing an UnknownSuperFormat->MySQL and then get VDR to use it. And then
teach people how to install the dbase and how to secure it and how to create
tables (oh well, somebody could write a script for that or even an RPM, DEB
and so on packages and of course maintain them).

Plamen.