Hi,
I would like to suggest a feature for VDR: channel categories
The idea (if it's not obvious from the name), given many of us deal with a lot of channels, it would be nice if we can put them into categories and have VDR, VDR's EPG and EPG viewers understand it.
So if our basic channels.conf lists the channels, perhaps a channel_category.conf breaks those down into user defined categories (i.e. "Local Channels", "Sports", "Favorites", etc).
It seems most other TV viewing programs (DVB, analog, whatever) supports this capability and I find it most useful, especially the "Favorites" as I normally I like to watch a subset of channels I can get.
Having a seperate file to maintain categories seems like it wouldn't break existing EPG and/or VDR code. Maybe VDR could provide an option to flip between "raw" channels.conf and "categorized" channels.
I know there are other features planned and bugs to fix...maybe this can be added to the planned features list.
Regards, CR.
It makes a lot of sense to me, but indeed, backward compatibility will be the biggest issue to discuss here.
Regards, Torsten
CR schrieb:
Hi,
I would like to suggest a feature for VDR: channel categories
The idea (if it's not obvious from the name), given many of us deal with a lot of channels, it would be nice if we can put them into categories and have VDR, VDR's EPG and EPG viewers understand it.
So if our basic channels.conf lists the channels, perhaps a channel_category.conf breaks those down into user defined categories (i.e. "Local Channels", "Sports", "Favorites", etc).
It seems most other TV viewing programs (DVB, analog, whatever) supports this capability and I find it most useful, especially the "Favorites" as I normally I like to watch a subset of channels I can get.
Having a seperate file to maintain categories seems like it wouldn't break existing EPG and/or VDR code. Maybe VDR could provide an option to flip between "raw" channels.conf and "categorized" channels.
I know there are other features planned and bugs to fix...maybe this can be added to the planned features list.
Regards, CR.
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CR wrote: ...
Having a seperate file to maintain categories seems like it wouldn't break existing EPG and/or VDR code. Maybe VDR could provide an option to flip between "raw" channels.conf and "categorized" channels.
I agree that the channel chaos currently is VDR's greatest weakness.
Your idea of having a separate configuration file that allows me to work with a subset of the real channel list would help a lot, but it would not solve all problems.
From my point of view, the main problem is that channels change every day.
I am forced to keep track of that, which turns out to be a lot of work.
I have tried to sort away channels that I do not care for into groups (using the existing channel group feature). The trouble with that is, that such a channel could change into a channel I do care for.
Channels I do not care for include:
* Channels that I cannot decrypt.
* Channels that only have audio languages that I do not understand.
* Shopping / Advertizing / Porn 0900.
* Sports.
* Radio.
If there would be an automatic way to keep those 5 out, it would be much easier to group the rest (maybe using your "categorized" channels idea).
Carsten.
Carsten Koch wrote:
Channels I do not care for include:
Channels that I cannot decrypt.
Channels that only have audio languages that I do not understand.
Shopping / Advertizing / Porn 0900.
Sports.
Radio.
Getting rid of radio is easy, just comment out in file sdt.c
case 0x01: // digital television service // case 0x02: // digital radio sound service case 0x04: // NVOD reference service
Carsten Koch schrieb:
I have tried to sort away channels that I do not care for into groups (using the existing channel group feature). The trouble with that is, that such a channel could change into a channel I do care for.
Channels I do not care for include:
Channels that I cannot decrypt.
Channels that only have audio languages that I do not understand.
Shopping / Advertizing / Porn 0900.
Sports.
Radio.
There are plugins that do what you want :)
Autosort: http://www.copypointburscheid.de/linux/autosort.htm It does all the wanted sorting in the background....
together with the decruft Plugin http://www.rst38.org.uk/vdr/ (that removes unwanted channels) you will have a nice channel list.
And there are plugins like http://famillejacques.free.fr/vdr/prefermenu/ that can keep a list of your fav. channels...
But I still want a categories-feature, too :)
Frank Scherthan
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