[vdr] Re: split up channels.conf

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Lauri Tischler wrote:
> 
> Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M wrote:
> 
>  > A channel's supposed to be uniquely identified with
>  > [source|NetworkID|ServiceID]
>  >
>  > e.g. ZDF        [13E|318|8011] or   Premiere 1 [19.2E|133|10]
>  >
>  > everything else is fixed than ZDF (11054:H:27500:5/6:570:571) P 1
>  > (11798:H:27500:3/4:511:512,513;515)
>  >
>  > I was searching the internet yesterday for a descend channels.conf
>  > for astra, since the default one misses appx. 5 channels of the 56
>  > german astra FTA channels :-(
>  >
>  > I am a strong supporter for splitting it up, because we would finally
>  > be able to distribute one unique channel list for all users (incl.
>  > cable and terrestrial) and everybody just makes up his own
>  > channels.conf by referring to this list.
> 
> Also the unique id should be used in timers etc. so that editing
> the channel list does not screw up the timers.

I really like being able to manage the timers.conf manually, with a text
editor, or via SVDRP. Therefore I wouldn't like to have to type something
like "19.2E-12345-28006" to set the channel in a timer. I know that in my
channels.conf, e.g, ZDF is channel number 14 - and that's way easier to
type and remember ;-)

Besides: there still have to be "normal" channel numbers, otherwise selecting
a channel by typing the number keys on the remote control would become next
to impossible.

Klaus
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