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Diffstat (limited to 'vdr.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | vdr.5 | 30 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ .\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the .\" vdr distribution. .\" -.\" $Id: vdr.5 1.11 2002/10/27 15:36:44 kls Exp $ +.\" $Id: vdr.5 1.12 2002/11/10 10:10:15 kls Exp $ .\" -.TH vdr 5 "7 Oct 2002" "1.2.0" "Video Disk Recorder Files" +.TH vdr 5 "10 Nov 2002" "1.2.0" "Video Disk Recorder Files" .SH NAME vdr file formats - the Video Disk Recorder Files .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -120,6 +120,18 @@ l l. .TP .B SID The service ID of this channel. +.PP +A particular channel can be uniquely identified by its \fBchannel\ ID\fR, +which is a string that looks like this: + +\fBS19.2E-0-12188-12003\fR + +The components of this string are the \fBSource\fR (S19.2E), \fBFrequency\fR +(12188, MHz) and \fBSID\fR (12003) as defined above. The part that is currently +\fB0\fR is reserved for future use. +.br +The \fBchannel\ ID\fR is used in the \fItimers.conf\fR and \fIepg.data\fR +files to properly identify the channels. .SS TIMERS The file \fItimers.conf\fR contains the timer setup. Each line contains one timer definition, with individual fields @@ -143,7 +155,13 @@ Note: in order to allow future extensibility, external programs using the and leave the lower 16 bit untouched. .TP .B Channel -The number of the channel to record. +The channel to record from. This is either the channel number as shown in the +on-screen menus, or a complete channel ID. When reading \fItimers.conf\fR +any channel numbers will be mapped to the respective channel ids and when +the file is written again, there will only be channel ids. Channel numbers +are accepted as input in order to allow easier creation of timers when +manually editing \fItimers.conf\fR. Also, when timers are listed via SVDRP +commands, the channels are given as numbers. .TP .B Day The day when this timer shall record. @@ -472,7 +490,7 @@ The following tag characters are defined: .TS tab (@); l l. -\fBC\fR@<service id> <channel name> +\fBC\fR@<channel id> <channel name> \fBE\fR@<event id> <start time> <duration> <table id> \fBT\fR@<title> \fBS\fR@<subtitle> @@ -491,8 +509,8 @@ should at least have a \fBT\fR entry). .TS tab (@); l l. -<service id> @is the "program number" as defined in 'channels.conf' -<channel name> @is the "name" as in 'channels.conf' (for information only) +<channel id> @is the "channel ID", made up from the parameters defined in 'channels.conf' +<channel name> @is the "name" as in 'channels.conf' (for information only, may be left out) <start time> @is the time (as a time_t integer) in UTC when this event starts <duration> @is the time (in seconds) that this event will take <table id> @is a hex number that indicates the table this event is contained\ |