[vdr] Re: AW: Re: Channelslist

[Usenet-372112@zocki.toppoint.de (Rainer Zocholl)]

Carsten.Koch@icem.de(Carsten Koch)  05.10.01 23:25

Once upon a time Carsten Koch shaped the electrons to say...

>Rainer Zocholl wrote:
>....
>> I think he meant the "PIDs" and a general solution
>> to get these infos.
>>
>> I wonder why those values are not documented by the
>> satellit companies(SES?). They (must) know them, and these values
>> can't be "confidential" and under "Non-disclosure" or?

>Als Rolf said, they are dynamic 

Ok, that would explain why they are not documented ;-)
(I thought this was only true for PW)

>and you really do not need them before you start a program.

>As an example, DVB2000 (d-box firmware) determines them at
>run-time, so there is no need to configure them.

Hm, how do i tell that VDR/program a timer?


>I believe it would be nice if VDR did the same.
>That would save us the unneccessary hazzle of finding and
>configuring these somewhat redundant numbers all the time.

Ok, i did not know that is so easy to determine those PIDs.
(Hey, they we would have free fields for weekday, daytime and 
program specific audio volumes ;-) (just kiddin))