On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:11 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> On 10/06/08 11:06, Laz wrote:
> > On Monday 06 Oct 2008, Frank Scherthan wrote:
> >> Laz schrieb:
> >>> On Sunday 05 Oct 2008, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> >>>> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:10 +0100, Dave P wrote:
> >>> On another Freeview specific note, I'd love to have my channels
> >>> renumbered to their "proper" Freeview numbers. At the moment, I have
> >>> to go through and move them about by hand every time something
> >>> changes! I don't think there is currently any support for assigning
> >>> channels a specific number within vdr (probably not much point with
> >>> gazillions of satellite channels but more useful with the handful of
> >>> terrestrial Freeview ones in the UK).
> >> man 5 vdr:
> >> A group delimiter can also be used to just set the next channel's
> >> number, without an explicit delimiter text, as in
> >>
> >> :@201
> >
> > That's what I mean by "doing it by hand"! My channels.conf is littered
> > with those!
> >
> > ;)
> >
> > Would be nice if each channel entry had a field for channel number
> > instead, especially when they helpfully decide to move a channel!
> >
> > It's also the way "real" set-top boxes do it. I think "scan" can output
> > the channel numbers to a vdr-readable channels.conf but I think that just
> > puts in a :@1, :@2, :@3, etc. every other line. Just doesn't seem neat to
> > me, especially as the channel numbers are broadcast.
> >
> > I did start looking at this a while back but never got very far: might
> > have another go...
>
> I don't think it makes any sense to put actual channel numbers into
> each channel's line in channels.conf. For one, what if different
> providers want to use the same channel numbers? And: what if channels
> are moved around, inserted or deleted?
It might not make sense in your environment.