Hi,
Carsten Koch wrote:
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.
Usually for the channels that are changing, does anything remain constant, i.e. the channel name? I see similar issues, but for me the name is typically the same.
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).
Perhaps another part of the channel-categories is a "blacklist" feature/section which allows the user to block based on any of the items that typically appear in the channels.conf (SID,PIDs,APIDs,channel name, etc)?
Hopefully it could be made userfriendly, so one could, for example, define the language(s) one wants, and all others are optionally chunked into blacklisted land.
It seems like the channels.conf + user-specified preferences is all that is needed to remove and keep unwanted channels out.
Comments?
CR.
CR wrote: ...
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.
Usually for the channels that are changing, does anything remain constant, i.e. the channel name? I see similar issues, but for me the name is typically the same.
Yes, I do remember cases where the names did change. For example, did not MTV (Music) change to NICK (Comedy) and then to sothing else?
Of course, it also happens that a channel is simply no longer in service and all that's left is a dead channels.conf entry.
I would like to get rid of all channels that I cannot receive, no matter what the reason is (I cannot decrypt it, it is no longer being brotcast, etc.). It would be good to only have channels in the channels.conf that at least produce a picture! But it does not end there. If, for example, I move a channel into my "Spanish" group (I do not understand spanish), I will never look at it again. But later on the channel may become an english or german (or music) channel worth looking at. How do I find out?
Hopefully it could be made userfriendly, so one could, for example, define the language(s) one wants, and all others are optionally chunked into blacklisted land.
Yes. The following algorithm for NEW CHANNELS would be good:
1) Can I receive any data from thic channel? (i.e. does the femon plugin show a video rate > 0) If no: do not create a channels.conf entry.
2) Is the audio language among the configured ones? If yes: Move to "New Channels" group. If no: Move to "Cannot Understand" group.
It might also be helpful if the "New Channels" and "Cannot Understand" groups will be scanned again regularly using the same algorithm, automatically deleting any channel that fails test 1) above. Such a scan should not touch the other groups, because I might have for example a spanish music channel in them that I do want to watch in spite of the fact that I do not understand spanish.
Carsten.
Carsten Koch wrote:
Yes. The following algorithm for NEW CHANNELS would be good:
Can I receive any data from thic channel? (i.e. does the femon plugin show a video rate > 0) If no: do not create a channels.conf entry.
Is the audio language among the configured ones? If yes: Move to "New Channels" group. If no: Move to "Cannot Understand" group.
It might also be helpful if the "New Channels" and "Cannot Understand" groups will be scanned again regularly using the same algorithm, automatically deleting any channel that fails test 1) above. Such a scan should not touch the other groups, because I might have for example a spanish music channel in them that I do want to watch in spite of the fact that I do not understand spanish.
Use autosort plugin http://www.copypointburscheid.de/linux/vdr-autosort-0.0.10.tgz It is not perfect but does most of those things.
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