-- Oorspronkelijk bericht -- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:39:08 -0800 From: VDR User user.vdr@gmail.com To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Subject: Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf Reply-To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Ville Skyttä ville.skytta@iki.fi wrote:
Even though they'd get lost when VDR writes it, allowing comments there would be an improvement so distros (and VDR itself) could ship the file with some comments in it that instruct users what they need to do before things will work, or what the file is for, or... Same thing applies to remote.conf, setup.conf, and timers.conf.
If the "AllowComments" parameter exists just for the purpose of disallowing comments in files where VDR doesn't preserve them, I suggest removing that restriction altogether and allowing comments everywhere. Allowing comments and preserving them are two different things. For files where VDR doesn't preserve them it could note that on the first line of such files, for example like:
# Warning: VDR will overwrite this file without preserving comments.
I see no real benefit in complicating file (which stores only channel information) functions with what you've suggested. It just seems like a bunch of unnecessary work inside VDR for something that isn't any more useful than simply putting such info/comments in the README, MANUAL, INSTALLATION, or other appropriate files.
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 ...
#30 radio channels 31 3FM 32 BNR 33 Veronica
Best regards, Cedric