[vdr] Re: channels.conf garbage.

[Lauri Tischler <lwgt@iki.fi>]

Carsten Koch wrote:
> I like the fact that VDR automatically keeps my channels.conf up-to-date,
> but I dislike the fact that it keeps getting larger and larger,
> slowly evolving into a pile of garbage.
>
> There are three kinds of channels.conf entries that I consider garbage.
> I believe they are very much like spam:
>
> 1)  channels that are no longer in service.
Some channels come and go, so even if you remove them they just pop back

> 2)  channels that use an encryption that I have no CAM for.
This removes all channels where ca <> 0
perl -anF: -e 'print if /^:/ or $F[7] != 0' channels.conf > channels.new

> 3)  channels that do not have an audio PIDs with a language that
>     I can understand.
Not all providers actually sen language info, only apidnumber