On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:14 +0100, Andrew Herron wrote:
I totally agree. LCN's here in the UK and in Australia is central to ordinary users experience of DVB (aka Freeview here in the UK). At present we use scan commands -u switch to generate the LCN data. Having vdr handle this form of channel numbering internally would seem to be the better option but a plugin would be the next best option.
Users of a single closed system like Freeview, cable, or Sky will certainly be accustomed to preset channel numbers in the EPG - after all Sky et al will be charging different rates to content providers depending on how 'premium' the channel number is..
As a result, in the UK at least, advertising for channels includes the channel number on all three platforms - Freeview, cable and Sky..
Channel numbers might be a novel concept for users of a steerable dish, but for most of us they're utterly standard and quite mandatory for non-technical users.
gdh