Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-15 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 15 février 2007 à 00:12 +0100, Rob Davis a écrit : What I am after is an ordered channel list in the same order as the official decoders from different providers. ie, someone from outside the UK wouldn't necessarily know that the channels go: BBC 1, 2 , ITV 1, Ch 4, five. Then

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Herron
The point is that a £20 freeview box automatically sorts the channel list using the broadcast lcn data without any user intervention. Then of course all the channel numbering is correct and conforms to the UK freeview channel order. By using Tony's script we get the same functionality in vdr for

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-15 Thread Rob Davis
Tony Grant wrote: Le jeudi 15 février 2007 à 00:12 +0100, Rob Davis a écrit : What I am after is an ordered channel list in the same order as the official decoders from different providers. ie, someone from outside the UK wouldn't necessarily know that the channels go: BBC 1, 2 , ITV 1, Ch

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-15 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 15 février 2007 à 09:15 +0100, Rob Davis a écrit : If you wanted to have the same numbers as a Sky Digibox. OK I see. I am a very basic viewer who just zaps around on a whim recording the odd film now and then and of course MotoGP. Since we moved my VDR box died (bad capacitors)

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-15 Thread Tony Houghton
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Houghton wrote: I've had trouble in the past with VDR disagreeing with the format used by the output of scan so I've written a script which compares VDR's channels.conf with the output of scan with Freeview numbering and outputs a new file with VDR's channel data

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-14 Thread Laz
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 15:24, Andrew Herron wrote: Does anyone know if the Logical Channel Numbers that are used in the UK on Freeview DVB-T transmissions are currently handled by VDR in anyway? I'm pretty sure that they're currently ignored. I tend to hand edit my channels.conf every

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-14 Thread Tony Houghton
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Laz wrote: On Wednesday 14 February 2007 15:24, Andrew Herron wrote: Does anyone know if the Logical Channel Numbers that are used in the UK on Freeview DVB-T transmissions are currently handled by VDR in anyway? I'm pretty sure that they're currently ignored. I tend

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-14 Thread Rob Davis
Andrew Herron wrote: Hi Rob, I think xmltv2vdr.pl might be a better place to start for what you are trying to achieve... as you can point it at a TV listing web site and extract all the EPG data for the channels listed apparently based on my reading of threads on this list that is! Yes,

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Herron
On I understand what you are trying to achieve now. LCN data is broadcast as part of the UK Freeview service and Tony's script uses that data to resort the channels list (like a Freeview STB would in fact). I guess what you are after is a combination of xmltvtovdr and Tony's scanln script. On