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<blockquote data-quote="jameson_uk" data-source="post: 686093" data-attributes="member: 11220"><p>But it is not as simple as that. I am talking about tuning code, scanning code, scheduler code... Then you have to code the logic to cope with channels changing so you need lots of code to update all existing recordings (they can only work if linked to a channel so you also need to cope with recordings where the channel no longer exists). Then you need to update all schedules to link to the new channels and again cope with any channels that no longer exist (eg. if you had a schedule on Virgin 1 how can you know that this now should be Channel One?). Then you would also need to sort out the EPG. I am guessing that most freeview users probably untick thing like QVC and the community channel so they do not appear in EPG. If you delete and re-add these channels this then data needs transferring across too. If you use XML-TV that data needs converting too.</p><p></p><p>So you end up touching most of the areas of code within TV-Server. You can not simply say do this if your tuner is a freeview and this if it is not as things like tuning as generic and there is one set of code. You will need to do things like interweave freeview specific code and then you need to regression test massive amounts.</p><p></p><p>It is not that I don't think this would help it is that I think it is a massive amount of change for what would benefit a relatively low number of MP users. Your comparison to a cheap STB does not hold true as they have none of the functions of a PVR. They can (and do) simply delete everything and start again as I have stated before. Freeview PVRs are Freeview only so that do not need to cope with most of these issues.</p><p></p><p>Remember that mediaportal is open source you are more than welcome to submit a patch to change how this works for consideration <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jameson_uk, post: 686093, member: 11220"] But it is not as simple as that. I am talking about tuning code, scanning code, scheduler code... Then you have to code the logic to cope with channels changing so you need lots of code to update all existing recordings (they can only work if linked to a channel so you also need to cope with recordings where the channel no longer exists). Then you need to update all schedules to link to the new channels and again cope with any channels that no longer exist (eg. if you had a schedule on Virgin 1 how can you know that this now should be Channel One?). Then you would also need to sort out the EPG. I am guessing that most freeview users probably untick thing like QVC and the community channel so they do not appear in EPG. If you delete and re-add these channels this then data needs transferring across too. If you use XML-TV that data needs converting too. So you end up touching most of the areas of code within TV-Server. You can not simply say do this if your tuner is a freeview and this if it is not as things like tuning as generic and there is one set of code. You will need to do things like interweave freeview specific code and then you need to regression test massive amounts. It is not that I don't think this would help it is that I think it is a massive amount of change for what would benefit a relatively low number of MP users. Your comparison to a cheap STB does not hold true as they have none of the functions of a PVR. They can (and do) simply delete everything and start again as I have stated before. Freeview PVRs are Freeview only so that do not need to cope with most of these issues. Remember that mediaportal is open source you are more than welcome to submit a patch to change how this works for consideration :) [/QUOTE]
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