Oh I didn't have the vdr.5 one installed but I do now. So it looks like they have to then be in order in the channels file as well as having the little number tags. I guess I will cobble together a sorter program when I get home :)

David Barker wrote:

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Hi I have run scan with the -u option which then adds a comment like this ":@1" before every channel which is the channel's number. It works fine but the problem is vdr seems to totaly ignore these comments! Any ideas?

man 5 vdr