Re: [vdr] Undetected channels on transponders switching from DVB-S to DVB-S2

2011-09-13 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Sonntag, den 11.09.2011, 13:49 +0200 schrieb Udo Richter udo_rich...@gmx.de: There's currently no 'official' method to track down channels that are no longer announced. There's a trick however: Modify your channels.conf so that all channel names start with [outdated], then start VDR and

Re: [vdr] Undetected channels on transponders switching from DVB-S to DVB-S2

2011-09-13 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Sonntag, den 11.09.2011, 14:32 +0200 schrieb Luca Olivetti l...@ventoso.org: My actuator plugin has menu options to mark, unmark and delete marked channels. The idea is, you mark the channels, do a complete satellite scan, then delete the (still) marked channels. Even if I wrote that

Re: [vdr] Undetected channels on transponders switching from DVB-S to DVB-S2

2011-09-13 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 13/09/11 11:09, En/na Henning Pingel ha escrit: Can actuator be used by people without a motor behind their dish? Yes, with the -s option it will just offer the channel scanning functionality. Bye -- Luca ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] Undetected channels on transponders switching from DVB-S to DVB-S2

2011-09-13 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Am 11.09.2011 11:37, schrieb Henning Pingel: My questions are based on the experience when two transponders switched from DVB-S to DVB-S2 in 2011: 1) On S28.2E the transponder containing the BBC HD channels did this. 2) On S19.2E the transponder now containing the Sonnenklar.HD TV did

Re: [vdr] Undetected channels on transponders switching from DVB-S to DVB-S2

2011-09-13 Thread Udo Richter
Am 13.09.2011 11:03, schrieb Henning Pingel: That sounds *very* interesting to me. If I can assist you in going public with this patch + plugin, please let me know. I currently don't see a reason to reset the timestamp to zero on VDR start, but I probably just don't get your concept yet.

[vdr] Undetected channels on transponders switching from DVB-S to DVB-S2

2011-09-11 Thread Henning Pingel
Hi, I think it is a great feature that VDR will update channel parameters and add newly found channels automatically if UpdateChannels is set to value 5 in setup.conf. But my impression is currently that VDR might fail to find new channels on a satellite transponder in the special situation that

Re: [vdr] Undetected channels on transponders switching from DVB-S to DVB-S2

2011-09-11 Thread Udo Richter
Am 11.09.2011 11:37, schrieb Henning Pingel: And this tackles another small problem: I think that VDR doesn't delete any channels from the channels.conf in any case. So outdated channels have to be removed manually. Has there been an attempt to offer a functionality that VDR makes a note of

Re: [vdr] Undetected channels on transponders switching from DVB-S to DVB-S2

2011-09-11 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 11/09/11 13:49, En/na Udo Richter ha escrit: Am 11.09.2011 11:37, schrieb Henning Pingel: And this tackles another small problem: I think that VDR doesn't delete any channels from the channels.conf in any case. So outdated channels have to be removed manually. Has there been an attempt to