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Diffstat (limited to 'vdr.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | vdr.5 | 28 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the .\" vdr distribution. .\" -.\" $Id: vdr.5 1.23 2004/01/25 14:44:59 kls Exp $ +.\" $Id: vdr.5 1.25 2004/02/22 13:18:48 kls Exp kls $ .\" .TH vdr 5 "1 Jun 2003" "1.2.0" "Video Disk Recorder Files" .SH NAME @@ -178,6 +178,13 @@ so the above example could also be written as S19.2E-1-1089-12003). .br The \fBchannel\ ID\fR is used in the \fItimers.conf\fR and \fIepg.data\fR files to properly identify the channels. + +If a channel has both \fBNID\fR and \fBTID\fR set to 0, the \fBchannel\ ID\fR +will use the \fBFrequency\fR instead of the \fBTID\fR. For satellite channels +an additional offset of 100000, 200000, 300000 or 400000 is added to that +number, depending on the \fBPolarization\fR (\fBH\fR, \fBV\fR, \fBL\fR or \fBR\fR, +respectively). This is necessary because on some satellites the same frequency is +used for two different transponders, with opposite polarization. .SS TIMERS The file \fItimers.conf\fR contains the timer setup. Each line contains one timer definition, with individual fields @@ -189,12 +196,17 @@ The fields in a timer definition have the following meaning (from left to right): .TP .B Status -Defines whether this timer is \fBinactive\fR (0) or \fBactive\fR (1). -The value 3 is used for instant recordings. -Values other than these 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 \fBstatus\fR field will be explicitly set to '1' (or '0', respectively, -if the user deactivates the timer). +The individual bits in this field have the following meaning: +.TS +tab (@); +l l. +\fB1\fR@the timer is active (and will record if it hits) +\fB2\fR@this is an instant recording timer +\fB4\fR@this timer uses VPS +.TE +Bits other than these can be used by external programs to mark active timers +and recognize if the user has modified them. When a user modifies an active +timer, the upper 16 bits of this 32 bit parameter will be explicitly set to 0. Note: in order to allow future extensibility, external programs using the \fBstatus\fR parameter should only use the upper 16 bit of this 32 bit parameter @@ -554,6 +566,7 @@ l l. \fBT\fR@<title> \fBS\fR@<short text> \fBD\fR@<description> +\fBV\fR@<vps time> \fBe\fR@ \fBc\fR@ .TE @@ -576,6 +589,7 @@ l l. <title> @is the title of the event <short text> @is the short text of the event (typically the name of the episode etc.) <description> @is the description of the event (any '|' characters will be interpreted as newlines) +<vps time> @is the Video Programming Service time of this event .TE This file will be read at program startup in order to restore the results of |