On Sunday 05 Oct 2008, Gavin Hamill wrote:
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:10 +0100, Dave P wrote:
A few months ago I posted a VDR patch to implement support for Freeview+, the cut-down version of TV-Anytime (ETSI TS 102 323) broadcast in the UK.
I've prepared a new version against VDR 1.6.0-2, and included a simple Perl script which automatically creates timers for all of the programmes in a series. Run it overnight as a cron job and never miss your favourite series again!
The patch is at http://www.pickles.me.uk/vdrtva-0.0.3.tar.gz
Interesting stuff :)
I don't suppose it's possible to implement this as a plugin rather than a patch to VDR's core? Is there not enough core exposed via the plugin API?
I can't see the patch going into VDR core any time because it's focused squarely at UK users only and Klaus would never have a use for it (unlike the Premiere-specific multi-angle support) so I'm worried that a lot of users will be missing out, especially if they use a packaged VDR.
Indeed it does look very interesting: it's really annoying when things get repeated several times during the week. Should make life a bit easier rather than making epgsearch look for really specific timers!
I will try to give it a go.
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).
Cheers,
Laz