Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 15.01.2012 05:07, cedric.dew...@telfort.nl wrote: Hi All, I would like to add some comments to channels.conf, and remove some channels I never watch. I have tried adding lines beginning with #, but this does not work, I still see those channels when I choose channels in VDR. What charakter

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread Eric Valette
On 15/01/2012 11:26, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: What charakter can i add in front of a line to let the line be ignored? There is no comment character in channels.conf, because VDR writes this file, and thus any comments would be lost. IMHO This is not a sufficient answer: it could skip the

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 15.01.2012 11:56, Eric Valette wrote: On 15/01/2012 11:26, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: What charakter can i add in front of a line to let the line be ignored? There is no comment character in channels.conf, because VDR writes this file, and thus any comments would be lost. IMHO This is not

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread Ville Skyttä
On 2012-01-15 13:01, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: VDR reads the channels.conf file and doesn't store any information about comments. It only stores the channel data. When it writes the file, it writes only the channel data, and at that point any comments in the original file would be lost. Even

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread fnu
Even though they'd get lost when VDR writes it, allowing comments there would be an improvement so distros (and VDR itself) could ship the file with some comments in it that instruct users what they need to do before things will work, or what the file is for, or... Same thing applies to

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread fnu
At least when I started to use VDR a long time ago, channels.conf pretty much *had* to be created with tools that weren't included with VDR (scan or something like that from dvb-apps). I haven't checked recently, but I suspect it's the same these days. Well that is an other question and valid

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread Udo Richter
Am 15.01.2012 14:49, schrieb fnu: Well that is an other question and valid argument, why is there no sufficient solution to scan for channels in VDR, like is quit normal on commercial solution. I've been living with VDR's auto channel update quite well, back since VDR 1.3.x eliminated the need

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread Ville Skyttä
On 2012-01-15 16:45, Udo Richter wrote: I've been living with VDR's auto channel update quite well, back since VDR 1.3.x eliminated the need of the AutoPID patch. The only thing I need an external tool for is to clean up all the dead channels from time to time. I never understood why people

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread fnu
I've been living with VDR's auto channel update quite well, back since VDR 1.3.x eliminated the need of the AutoPID patch. I said, I can go with the thought, it should be rather a native VDR function. From the technical point of view you're right, it runs perfectly, this function for people

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread VDR User
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Ville Skyttä ville.sky...@iki.fi wrote: Even though they'd get lost when VDR writes it, allowing comments there would be an improvement so distros (and VDR itself) could ship the file with some comments in it that instruct users what they need to do before

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread Ville Skyttä
On 2012-01-15 18:39, VDR User wrote: I see no real benefit in complicating file (which stores only channel information) functions with what you've suggested. VDR already contains code in file functions whose only purpose IIRC is to make it possible to disallow comments in some files. *That*

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] S2API wrapper for VDR-1.7.23 (also upgrades 5.x to 5.3 API)

2012-01-15 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, And here I was, thinking that I could finally drop support for this old compatibility patch that noone really needs any more, and then the new VDR-1.7.23 requires linux-3.0 or newer headers to compile... yay... So here it is again: S2API Wrapper 0.8 is released, and should allow to

Re: [vdr] Betr: Re: howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:18:40 +0100 cedric.dew...@telfort.nl wrote: There is one bit of information that I would like to add to channels.conf, and that's the channel number. This information cannot be added the README, and other files, as this is information that only I use. My channel.conf