Re: AW: Video Disk Recorder version 0.63

[Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>]

I believe we are shooting with cannons at pigeons here.

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.


Carsten.



MK wrote:
> 
> I agree also that mysql (for example) would allow for more universal
> interfaces and easy extension.
> (I'm thinking of web-based  frontends etc...)
> sql isn't that heavy, and IS really easy to deal with.
> 
> Max
> 
> At 16:38 13.09.00 +0200, you wrote:
> >Nice Feature, but why shouldn´t we take a real Database like "mysql", that
> >could also be used by applications like gVideo. That wouls also give us the
> >possibility to construct a kind of centralized update (think of cddb)..
> >
> >Harry
> >
> >
> >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >Von: martin@hammerschmid.com [mailto:martin@hammerschmid.com]
> >Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. September 2000 14:31
> >An: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
> >Betreff: Re: Video Disk Recorder version 0.63
> >
> >
> >Plamen Ganev wrote:
> > >
> > > Martin,
> > >
> > > > It might be useful to add/allow additional information fields about the
> > > > channel
> > > > in channels.conf ( :radio/tv:language:genre:encrypted/free_to_air  for
> > > > example)
> > >
> > > Version 0.63 of VDR has a new feature that allows you to group channels in
> > > logical groups (bouquet, genre, language, whatever) and then allows you to
> > > quickly jump between channel groups. Perhaps this is enough for most
> >cases.
> > >
> > > Plamen.
> >
> >This new feature is great! The idea of additional information
> >came into my mind while I was fiddling with it :)
> >I extracted information from channel lists,
> >kept information like radio/tv,language ... sorted it
> >they way I thought it was useful at the moment
> >and created a channels.conf from this data.
> >the "problem" (not a real problem  actually but a bit unpleasant :))
> >is that I always have to keep a 2nd data source when I want to sort
> >again.
> >allowing some dummy fields in channels.conf would be helpful.
> >
> >btw. a language filter possibly could be a neat feature for vdr :)
> >
> >Martin
> >
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