On 16.01.2012 01:45, Tony Houghton wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:18:40 +0100 cedric.dewijs@telfort.nl wrote:
There is one bit of information that I would like to add to channels.conf, and that's the channel number. This information cannot be added the README, and other files, as this is information that only I use. My channel.conf now looks like this (from memory, I'm not in front of the machine right now)
#1 Nederland 1: *a whole lot of numbers* #2 Nederland 2 *a whole lot of numbers*
This reminds me, it's now not possible to have a list of channels with gaps in it. I would like it if I can create a list like this:
#1..5 My favorite channels 1 Discovery channel 2 MTV 3 Some other channel 4 Comedy channel 5 Some other channel
#10..15 channels of my wife (just married this friday :-) ) 10 RTL 4 11 RTL 8
#20 channels we both like ;-) 20 animal planet 21 discovery channel (identical to channel 1) 22 ...
VDR can already do that. Before each numbered group add a line ":@1 ", ":@10 ", ":@20 " etc. Exclude the quites, but ISTR there was some problem if I didn't include a trailing space.
There's no, need for a trailing space.
I use this to make my channels numbered the same way as Freeview and Freesat, so I'd prefer it if channels lines had an LCN field instead of putting the numbers on separate lines.
An LCN field would only make sense if you have only channels from a single broadcaster in your channels.conf. As soon as there are several broadcasters, the numbers would most likely not be unique any more, and therefore useless.
I think you can also use a : followed by a string without @ to add comments, which are shown in the EPG.
These are "channel group separators", which you can easily navigate through with the Left and Right keys in live mode. The texts are *not* "shown in the EPG", though.
Klaus