[vdr] Re: Simplified Channels.conf

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

Ragnar Sundblad wrote:
> 
> --On den 25 februari 2003 13:41 +0100 Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >> Determining these settings from the data stream will (presumably) be
> >> implemented in the 1.3.x developer line. But even then the format of
> >> channels.conf won't change (at least not in the way you suggested),
> >> since it is _supposed_ to hold all that data in order to have it
> >> available quickly when switching channels. Think of it as some sort
> >> of "cache". When modified information becomes available via the
> >> stream, that one can later overwrite the one stored in channels.conf.
> >
> > I already thought about writing a plugin for this purpose. Shouldn't  be
> > too difficult, but will require some extensions of the plugin
> > interface.
> 
> That thought has crossed my mind too. I don't see the need
> for the user to know anything about program ids or polarization or
> frequency or similar either, a scan to find at least one
> frequency/transponder for every network (or bouqet or whatever it
> is that has this information) should be the preferred way
> to get going, from there on the software could find out the rest
> and handle updates.

These are things version 1.3.x will bring...

Klaus
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