[vdr] Re: unique channel id

["Juergen Hahn (S)" <juergen.hahn@rbg42.siemens.de>]

Ulrich Petri wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >
> > Ulrich Petri wrote:
> > >
> > > Then i would suggest building a hash key from the
> > NID+PID+SID+APID+...
> > > so we have something that feels more like a "identifier"
> > rather that 5
> > > diffrent fields to look at.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > Are you seriously suggesting that?
> > Why should we make it more complicated than necessary?
> >
> 
> Because imho it is very complicated for humans to compare 5 different
> values in order to see if if is the "right" channel (e.g. if you want to
> edit the conf files by hand)

Me (and I think most of the humans) doesn't care of any IDs or hash
values or whatever in this file. Me is interested in the numbers I have
to press on the remote control or some text/name of the channel I see on
the TV after pressing some numbers on the remote control. Theses IDs or
hash values or whatever are just for computers, not for humans.

Bye.

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