On 17.06.2012 09:26, VDR User wrote:
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Henning Pingel henning@henningpingel.de wrote:
Hi,
As some of you might already know, I'm working on a way to semi-automatically assign unique channel IDs to channels of different DVB providers. As I currently don't have time to explain it in detail today, I will just post some links and join this discussion later on when I have more time to sit down and explain stuff. ;-)
Why not just patch VDR so it cycles through channels that use the same channel number. No bothering with sql databases& dependency, no altering the real channel numbers, no real pain that I can think of. For example, say you have 3 different sources using the same channel number:
channel 100, dvb-s channel 100, dvb-t channel 100, dvb-c
You tune channel 100 from your remote, it tunes 100 dvb-s. Press 100 again and it tunes 100 dvb-t. And again, 100 dvb-c. And again, loop back to 100 dvb-s. Also, instead of having to enter the channel number to cycle through them, maybe just use different keys (skip +/-, ffw/rew, some other keys) to cycle. If there's only one of that channel number, the cycle keys don't do anything.
I like this idea far better than adding an sql dependency to VDR and I see no reason why the above would be difficult to implement or use. If I'm missing something, please let me know.
Well, first of all: there will be no SQL dependency in the core VDR ;-)
Once version 2.0 is finished, I'm planning on dealing with the "same channel from multiple sources" problem.
Klaus