Rob Shortt wrote: > Rob Shortt wrote: >> Dirk Meyer wrote: >>>Ini style? The VDR channels.conf doesn't look like an ini file to >>>me. Do you have more docs (== not reading the source)? >> >> >> This lib isn't used by VDR (yet) and is the result of several >> discussions on the DVB and VDR lists. I think this one is ini style. >> I'll have to go back and refresh my memory on the specifics though. > > Ok, I may be completely confused here. I know I saw discussions about > an ini style conf and thought they were implimenting it... > > Let me just let this coffee take effect and I'll do some more poking around.
I played around and read some source code. To summarize it all: this
whole mapping sucks! If I read the channels.conf examples in the vdr
wiki correctly, the same channel may have a different SID at different
locations in Germany. So I guess we need to think of something else.
Proposal: read a channels.conf in a format you want. It should be easy
to detect which format is used and we can create a simple xawtv
channels.conf parser and a vdr one. When writing our own scanning, I
propose vdr 1.3.x format.
Doing that, the freevo recorder has no idea about a unique id. It can
record "Sat.1" for analog and "SAT1" for dvb. But it doesn't have to
know more. The recordserver has an epg and can try to figure out the
correct name. E.g. the epg may contain "Sat 1". If you remove all the
whitespaces, the dot and use lower case, all three are identical. So
we can try to find a mapping that way. This doesn't work for all
channels, e.g. I have "ARD" and "Das Erste". At this point we need
the users help and he may add an epg mapping to the recordserver in a
simple text file. It's not a good solution, but I guess it will
work. For US/Canada, the recorder knows it can record S50, whatever
that means. The recordserver has the epg and the access id and can do
the mapping.
On the other hand, a unified epg would be nice, but I don't see a nice
way to do this.
Dischi
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