[vdr] Re: Using Service Information to control recording (was: new vdr user's questions)

[colin <colin@howarth.de>]

Lauri Tischler wrote:
> 
> colin wrote:
> >
> > I watch mostly the German Astra stuff (ARD, Pro7 etc). My receiver displays
> > the name and planned start/end times of the current programme for all of
> > these channels.
> >
> > I assume this is the Service Information mentioned above.
> 
> partly true, the keyword is 'planned', it does not mean that the program
> will actually start or end at that time.

That's why I put the keyword there :-)

I haven't been paying attention much but it seems that the old
programme's name
and times were replaced by the new programme **at the time the new programme
started** - i.e. even when it started a few minutes late.

> Thats why in the stream there is statusinfo 'running_status', the recorder
> should watch the status and then work accordingly.

That's what I was thinking/hoping.

> This is just teoretical, I dont know the internals of dvb that well.
> I dont even know if the running_status is used at all.

I've just started reading the DVB API.


colin


PS. Thanks to C. Rienecker for the link to the API.  ;-)