[linux-dvb] Re: Global channels config in libdvb

[jhall@UU.NET (Jeremy Hall)]

well I don't want to duplicate work.  How can we work together to pool our
resources?

_J

In the new year, mocm@metzlerbros.de wrote:
> Jeremy Hall writes:
>  > The Dish Network channels move around so much that I am considering
>  > writing a watcher thread to vdr that dynamically builds the channels from
>  > the SDT.
>  > 
>  > but I would like to select channels by service ID rather than line number
>  > in channels.conf but I didn't get any responses when I asked them about
>  > that on the vdr list.
>  > 
>  > Further more, I don't understand why we need to have the channels.conf
>  > have all the apids and vpids of the channels when the PMT will tell us
>  > this info.  You could either tune to all transponders you know about upon
>  > start-up or dynamically build it as you surf through the channels.
> 
> I do that in rtuxzap using the libdvb. I also changed the search for
> default config files to also look in /etc/dvb, but I haven't checked
> it in yet. I need to iron out some other stuff first.
> 
>  > 
>  > In adition, if you have multiple provider id's, a table could be
>  > maintained to introduce an offset for them, like one provider's 323 could
>  > be 323, while another provider's 323 could be 10323.  The spec suggests
>  > service id is a unique identifier within a provider scope, so we should
>  > use it.
>  > 
> 
> I build an id for my favorite channels list consisting of network id,
> sat id (position), transponder id and PNR to avoid ambiguities. 
> They don't all have to be set, but are used when possible.
> 
> Marcus
> 
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