Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-07 Thread Andrew Herron
Yep... looks that way. Must be the E-Book On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Dave P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 October 2008, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > Are these channel numbers broadcast in a way that's covered in the > > DVB SI standard? If so, I see no reason why VDR shouldn't

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-07 Thread Dave P
On Tuesday 07 October 2008, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Are these channel numbers broadcast in a way that's covered in the > DVB SI standard? If so, I see no reason why VDR shouldn't (optionally) > use them when sorting channels. But they sure have no place in > channels.conf, in there I would stil

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-07 Thread Dave P
On Tuesday 07 October 2008, Laz wrote: > This is the sort of feature which would be ideal as a plugin, i.e. only > those who are interested need to compile and use it. As to whether it is > possible to obtain the relevant LCN info from the DVB stream is possible > from a plugin or not (I'd have th

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-07 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 10/07/08 02:18, Malcolm Caldwell wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:11 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> On 10/06/08 11:06, Laz wrote: >>> On Monday 06 Oct 2008, Frank Scherthan wrote: Laz schrieb: > On Sunday 05 Oct 2008, Gavin Hamill wrote: >> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:10 +0100, Da

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 13:48 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 10/07/08 10:26, Gavin Hamill wrote: > On my Sky digibox "Sky One" is on chanel number 106 - but I never saw > that number in any programme announcement on Sky. The only say "... on Sky > One", > and not "... on channel 106". > > So

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-07 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 10/07/08 10:26, Gavin Hamill wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:14 +0100, Andrew Herron wrote: >> I totally agree. LCN's here in the UK and in Australia is central to >> ordinary users experience of DVB (aka Freeview here in the UK). At >> present we use scan commands -u switch to generate the LC

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-07 Thread Laz
On Tuesday 07 Oct 2008, Malcolm Caldwell wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:11 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > I don't think it makes any sense to put actual channel numbers into > > each channel's line in channels.conf. For one, what if different > > providers want to use the same channel numbe

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:14 +0100, Andrew Herron wrote: > I totally agree. LCN's here in the UK and in Australia is central to > ordinary users experience of DVB (aka Freeview here in the UK). At > present we use scan commands -u switch to generate the LCN data. > Having vdr handle this form of ch

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-07 Thread Andrew Herron
I totally agree. LCN's here in the UK and in Australia is central to ordinary users experience of DVB (aka Freeview here in the UK). At present we use scan commands -u switch to generate the LCN data. Having vdr handle this form of channel numbering internally would seem to be the better option bu

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-06 Thread Malcolm Caldwell
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:11 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 10/06/08 11:06, Laz wrote: > > On Monday 06 Oct 2008, Frank Scherthan wrote: > >> Laz schrieb: > >>> On Sunday 05 Oct 2008, Gavin Hamill wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:10 +0100, Dave P wrote: > >>> On another Freeview specific

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-06 Thread Dave P
On Monday 06 October 2008, Laz wrote: > On another Freeview specific note, I'd love to have my channels > renumbered to their "proper" Freeview numbers. At the moment, I have to > go through and move them about by hand every time something changes! I > don't think there is currently any support fo

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-06 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 10/06/08 11:06, Laz wrote: > On Monday 06 Oct 2008, Frank Scherthan wrote: >> Laz schrieb: >>> On Sunday 05 Oct 2008, Gavin Hamill wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:10 +0100, Dave P wrote: >>> On another Freeview specific note, I'd love to have my channels >>> renumbered to their "proper" Fre

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-06 Thread Laz
On Monday 06 Oct 2008, Frank Scherthan wrote: > Laz schrieb: > > On Sunday 05 Oct 2008, Gavin Hamill wrote: > >> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:10 +0100, Dave P wrote: > > > > On another Freeview specific note, I'd love to have my channels > > renumbered to their "proper" Freeview numbers. At the moment,

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-06 Thread Frank Scherthan
Laz schrieb: > On Sunday 05 Oct 2008, Gavin Hamill wrote: >> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:10 +0100, Dave P wrote: > On another Freeview specific note, I'd love to have my channels renumbered > to their "proper" Freeview numbers. At the moment, I have to go through > and move them about by hand every

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-06 Thread Laz
On Sunday 05 Oct 2008, Gavin Hamill wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:10 +0100, Dave P wrote: > > A few months ago I posted a VDR patch to implement support for > > Freeview+, the cut-down version of TV-Anytime (ETSI TS 102 323) > > broadcast in the UK. > > > > I've prepared a new version against V

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-05 Thread Dave P
On Sunday 05 October 2008, Gavin Hamill wrote: > Interesting stuff :) > > I don't suppose it's possible to implement this as a plugin rather than > a patch to VDR's core? Is there not enough core exposed via the plugin > API? > > I can't see the patch going into VDR core any time because it's focu

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-05 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:10 +0100, Dave P wrote: > A few months ago I posted a VDR patch to implement support for Freeview+, > the cut-down version of TV-Anytime (ETSI TS 102 323) broadcast in the UK. > > I've prepared a new version against VDR 1.6.0-2, and included a simple Perl > script which

[vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-05 Thread Dave P
A few months ago I posted a VDR patch to implement support for Freeview+, the cut-down version of TV-Anytime (ETSI TS 102 323) broadcast in the UK. I've prepared a new version against VDR 1.6.0-2, and included a simple Perl script which automatically creates timers for all of the programmes in a