Re: [vdr] Request: E parameter in channels.conf for epg scan

2010-12-15 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Wednesday 15 December 2010, Jouni Karvo wrote: > > I think adding dependencies to outside packages is a burden that should > be avoided. There are > already many things I need to install separately in order the vdr box to > work; kernel, graphics > drivers, and xine-lib. Luckily, lirc is now a

Re: [vdr] Request: E parameter in channels.conf for epg scan

2010-12-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 15/12/10 20:57, En/na Jouni Karvo ha escrit: I don't understand what would be easy in using SQL. Since the channels.conf-code is already there, and pretty stable, then obviously rewriting that to SQL is not "easy", but instead additional work. Justifying additional work needs some reason. W

Re: [vdr] Request: E parameter in channels.conf for epg scan

2010-12-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 15/12/10 20:35, En/na VDR User ha escrit: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Luca Olivetti wrote: Instead of speculating I actually tried. I created a test database with the contents of my channels.conf (only containing the number, name, frequency, source, symbol rate and the vpid, I don't thi

Re: [vdr] Request: E parameter in channels.conf for epg scan

2010-12-15 Thread Jouni Karvo
I don't understand what would be easy in using SQL. Since the channels.conf-code is already there, and pretty stable, then obviously rewriting that to SQL is not "easy", but instead additional work. Justifying additional work needs some reason. I think adding dependencies to outside packages

Re: [vdr] Request: E parameter in channels.conf for epg scan

2010-12-15 Thread VDR User
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Luca Olivetti wrote: >>> Instead of speculating I actually tried. >>> I created a test database with the contents of my channels.conf (only >>> containing the number, name, frequency, source, symbol rate and the vpid, >>> I >>> don't think adding all the fields wou

[vdr] How to extract HD dvb subtitles (and possibly convert to srt)?

2010-12-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
I've a media player that only understand srt subtitles, so I'm looking for a way to extract the dvb subtitles from a vdr ts recording, and then use some kind of ocr to convert it to srt. I asked google and I came empty handed (many people asking the same question with no working answer). What

Re: [vdr] Request: E parameter in channels.conf for epg scan

2010-12-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 15/12/10 00:19, En/na VDR User ha escrit: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Luca Olivetti wrote: Instead of speculating I actually tried. I created a test database with the contents of my channels.conf (only containing the number, name, frequency, source, symbol rate and the vpid, I don't th

Re: [vdr] Request: E parameter in channels.conf for epg scan

2010-12-15 Thread Manuel Reimer
Steffen Barszus wrote: > well the point was to make it simpler, improving something. This goal > would be missed by that. "simple" is a matter of definition. I think the VDR built-in handlers of configuration files are very simple with the big benefit of being plain text. Yours Manuel -- () a

Re: [vdr] Request: E parameter in channels.conf for epg scan

2010-12-15 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:46:52 +0100 Udo Richter wrote: > Actually, no one stops you from doing lots of things from within a > plugin. The EPG system of VDR has even a multithread safe interface, > so you could constantly scan for changes and propagate your own > changes. Keeping some SQL database