I remember seeing patches for marking channels as identical in terms of EPG (so e.g., a DVB-S version of the channel can automatically share the EPG entries from the DVB-T version), but has anyone worked on a patch for identifying simulcasting channels, or even had some preliminary design thoughts for how one could be implemented?
I can imagine at least the following two use cases:
1) When watching live TV, channel '1' automatically selects the 'best' available version of 'BBC One London' depending on available tuners - e.g., rotating through BBC One HD (DVB-S2), BBC One (DVB-T2), BBC One (DVB-S) and BBC One London (DVB-T). This is much more intuitive than having to manually find an available broadcast of the channel.
2) For recordings, if a timer needs to start a recording on 'BBC One London', depending on its priority and a 'required quality' attribute it will similarly locate a tuner to make the recording with. Assuming it needs the DVB-S2 tuner for HD, if someone with lower priority is currently watching live TV on BBC One HD via DVB-S2 (and only one HD tuner is available) then they will be transparently switched down to the next available tuner quality.
On 02/23/2012 04:50 PM, Dominic Evans wrote:
Hi. This is an interesting topic and I have had exactly the same ideas. But I think this violates Klaus's "Keep it simple" philosophy and (as usual) I tend to agree with him. /Magnus H
Am 23.02.2012 19:36, schrieb Magnus Hörlin:
If you've ever read the algorithm that picks the best possible device for a recording, you'd probably agreed that we're already way too far from keeping it simple. These rules are already way too complex. Adding the complexity of choosing from different quality sources and up/downgrading other receivers would probably push this a lot further towards insanity.
Cheers,
Udo
Udo Richter udo_richter@gmx.de writes:
Even without the primarylimit it's still deadly complex. The very clever programming syntax used for the device selection makes it very difficult to understand and also to debug.
I have an old idea in my head but I've never taken the time to do so, it's also quite erratic: disable channel and device management and allow an external program to decide how to deal with devices and channels. I wouldn't want to start from scratch and work around dvbstreamer, vdr and its plugins are wonderful ! I love it ! (it's just the device and channel management that are too limited imho)
I'm not really into C++, it might already be possible to let plugins take over the channel and device management but i doubt it.
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