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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder File Formats
A "channel definition" is a line with channel data, where the fields
are separated by ':' characters:
- Example: "RTL:12188:h:1:27500:163:104:0:12003"
+ Example: "RTL:12188:h:1:27500:163:104:0:0:12003"
The fields in a channel definition have the following meaning (from left
to right):
@@ -21,15 +21,19 @@ Video Disk Recorder File Formats
- Name: the channel's name (if the name originally contains a ':' character
it has to be replaced by '|')
- Frequency in MHz (as an integer)
- - Polarization (one of 'h', 'H', 'v', 'V')
- - Diseqc number
+ - Polarization (one of 'h', 'H', 'v', 'V') **
+ - Diseqc number **
- Symbol rate
- Video PID
- Audio PID
+ - Teletext PID
- Conditional Access (0 = Free To Air, 1 = can be decrypted by the first
DVB card, 2 = can be decrypted by the second DVB card)
- Program Number
+ Fields marked with ** are only meaningful for DVB-S (satellite) receivers.
+ DVB-C receivers simply ignore these.
+
* timers.conf
This file contains the timer setup.
@@ -37,7 +41,10 @@ Video Disk Recorder File Formats
The fields in a timer definition have the following meaning (from left
to right):
- - Timer active (0 = inaactive, 1 = active)
+ - Timer active (0 = inactive, 1 = active)
+ Values larger than '1' can be used by external programs to mark active timers
+ and recognize if the user has modified them. When a user modifes an active
+ timer the 'active' field will be explicitly set to '1'.
- Program number of the channel to record
- Day of recording, either one or more of
M------ = Monday
@@ -55,8 +62,10 @@ Video Disk Recorder File Formats
- End time (first two digits for the hour, second two digits for the minutes)
- Priority (from 00 to 99, 00 = lowest prioity, 99 = highest priority)
- Guaranteed lifetime of recording (in days)
- - Name of timer (will be used to name the recording)
- - Summary
+ - Name of timer (will be used to name the recording); if the name contains
+ any ':' characters, these have to be replaced with '|'
+ - Summary (any newline characters in the summary have to be replaced with '|';
+ the summary may contain ':' characters)
* setup.conf
@@ -86,9 +95,13 @@ Video Disk Recorder File Formats
Examples:
- Check for new mail: /usr/local/bin/checkmail 2>&1
- CPU status : /usr/loval/bin/cpustatus 2>&1
- Disk space : df -h | grep '/video' | awk '{ print 100 - $5 "% free"; }'
+ 1 Check for new mail: /usr/local/bin/checkmail 2>&1
+ 2 CPU status : /usr/loval/bin/cpustatus 2>&1
+ 3 Disk space : df -h | grep '/video' | awk '{ print 100 - $5 "% free"; }'
+
+ If the first non-blank character of the 'title' is a digit in the range
+ 1..9, the command can be selected directly by pressing the respective numerical
+ key on the remote control.
* marks.vdr