Rene Bartsch wrote:
if the configuration (channels, transponders, options) and EPG would be stored in a MySQL-DB other applications could easily use that data instead of doing expensive scans of the files again and again.
Maybe there could be a compiler switch or even a command-line option for VDR to switch between file and SQL mode.
this could even solve some problems regarding synchronisation/thread safeness. But IMHO this sounds like a feature of VDR 2.0 ;-)
For a start one could just use the same DB-tables and structures as the current EPG/configuraton files are. That way the class writing the files could be easily inherited with the writing functions overwritten by functions with MySQL queries. A compiler switch would then select between the two classes at compile time. Unfortunately I don't have enough C++ skills to do it myself.
Renne