[vdr] Re: split up channels.conf

["Olivier JACQUES" <jacquesolivier@hotmail.com>]

Hi.

I think that the issue here is that we can always imagine a new feature that 
needs another field in the channels.conf. Splitting the channels.conf has 
the advantage of keeping backward compatibility (with the few "scanners" or 
"channels.conf generators") + allow addition of features (which, I hope, 
will grow fast with the plugins).
As an example, I was thinking of associating a channel logo to each of the 
channel and being able to choose (zap) from logos and no channel names. 
Well, I guess you can imagine whatever you want.
IMHO, the 'split' is a good idea.

so long,
Olivier.
>I can imagine inserting channel (and APID) specific audio levels into the
>channels.conf format, so there would be no need for "splitting up" things
>because of that. So as far as I can see the only thing that's needed would
>be a way of marking a channel as "favourite". I could imagine an additional
>field in channels.conf that defines whether a channel is a "favourite"
>channel or not. If this is a 32 bit integer field, there could even be
>32 separate favourite channel lists for different users. VDR could also
>be instructed to show only channels marked as "favourite", which could be 
>used
>to prevent children from watching channels they are not supposed to watch 
>(please,
>no "censorship" thread again - we had that a while ago).
>
>Klaus


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