Hi, I'm writing a program to edit / sort vdr channels.conf in a smart way.
From what I can understand so far, the first field format of a valid
channel line is:
Provider - ChannelName;Bouquet
Where both provider and bouquet are optional. While I can get the provider with scan -p (from dvb-utils), I don't understand how I can get the Bouquet info.
Does vdr fill the bouquet info automatically ? Is there a way to get the bouquet info manually ?
Thanks, Roberto
Roberto Sebastiano wrote:
Hi, I'm writing a program to edit / sort vdr channels.conf in a smart way.
From what I can understand so far, the first field format of a valid
channel line is:
Provider - ChannelName;Bouquet
Actually it's "long name,short name;provider" (see man vdr(5)).
Where both provider and bouquet are optional.
"long name" and "provider" are optional. "provider" is sometimes referred to as "bouquet".
While I can get the provider with scan -p (from dvb-utils), I don't understand how I can get the Bouquet info.
Does vdr fill the bouquet info automatically ?
Yes.
Klaus
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Roberto Sebastiano wrote:
Hi, I'm writing a program to edit / sort vdr channels.conf in a smart way.
From what I can understand so far, the first field format of a valid
channel line is:
Provider - ChannelName;Bouquet
Actually it's "long name,short name;provider" (see man vdr(5)).
Where both provider and bouquet are optional.
"long name" and "provider" are optional.
Sorry, of course "short name" is optional, not "long name".
Klaus
Il giorno mar, 08-03-2005 alle 14:44 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger ha scritto:
From what I can understand so far, the first field format of a valid
channel line is:
Provider - ChannelName;Bouquet
Actually it's "long name,short name;provider" (see man vdr(5)).
That's not what the scan utility prints. The format given by scan with the -p option is Provider - ChannelName:field2:field3:...
where, as you said, provider == bouquet
So, what's the correct syntax ?
-- Roberto
Roberto Sebastiano wrote:
Il giorno mar, 08-03-2005 alle 14:44 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger ha scritto:
From what I can understand so far, the first field format of a valid
channel line is:
Provider - ChannelName;Bouquet
Actually it's "long name,short name;provider" (see man vdr(5)).
That's not what the scan utility prints. The format given by scan with the -p option is Provider - ChannelName:field2:field3:...
where, as you said, provider == bouquet
So, what's the correct syntax ?
man vdr(5) of version the current developer version says:
The fields in a channel definition have the following meaning (from left to right):
Name The channel's name (if the name originally contains a ':' character it has to be replaced by '|'). Some tv stations provide a way of deriving a "short name" from the channel name, which can be used in situations where there is not much space for displaying a long name. If a short name is available for this channel, it follows the full name and is delimited by a comma, as in
RTL Television,RTL:...
If present, the name of the service provider or "bouquet" is appended to the channel name, separated by a semicolon, as in
RTL Television,RTL;RTL World:...
Klaus
Ok, another question.
How to distinguish between radio, video and data channels ?
The man page says that if VPID == 0 the channel is radio FTA, if VPID == 1 the channel is radio encrypted.
What about data channels ?
Thanks, Roberto
Il giorno mar, 08-03-2005 alle 15:10 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger ha scritto:
Roberto Sebastiano wrote:
Il giorno mar, 08-03-2005 alle 14:44 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger ha scritto:
From what I can understand so far, the first field format of a valid
channel line is:
Provider - ChannelName;Bouquet
Actually it's "long name,short name;provider" (see man vdr(5)).
That's not what the scan utility prints. The format given by scan with the -p option is Provider - ChannelName:field2:field3:...
where, as you said, provider == bouquet
So, what's the correct syntax ?
man vdr(5) of version the current developer version says:
The fields in a channel definition have the following meaning (from left to right): Name The channel's name (if the name originally contains a ':' character it has to be replaced by '|'). Some tv stations provide a way of deriving a "short name" from the channel name, which can be used in situations where there is not much space for displaying a long name. If a short name is available for this channel, it follows the full name and is delimited by a comma, as in RTL Television,RTL:... If present, the name of the service provider or "bouquet" is appended to the channel name, separated by a semicolon, as in RTL Television,RTL;RTL World:...Klaus
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Roberto Sebastiano wrote:
Ok, another question.
How to distinguish between radio, video and data channels ?
The man page says that if VPID == 0 the channel is radio FTA, if VPID == 1 the channel is radio encrypted.
What about data channels ?
No idea - VDR doesn't do data channels.
Klaus
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