<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/7/31 Rémi Denis-Courmont <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:remi@remlab.net">remi@remlab.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
We could include the lists as shared data if they were small and static. While<br>
I imagine they are not that big (and easy to compress), I also expect some<br>
churn over the timespan of a single VLC version. Then, it might not be so<br>
bright to have the lists offline. Moreover, churn means noise in the source<br>
code history.<br></blockquote><div><br>They are fairly static. Unless there's a new provider/sat. Easily compressed.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
An online list would require someone to provide the centralized service for<br>
us, say some HTTP server with predefined channel confs URLs for each satellite<br>
reception geographical areas or whatever. But does that exist? The VideoLAN<br>
project may (or may not) be able to host the data, but surely not to maintain<br>
it.<br><div class="im"></div></blockquote><div><br>Not chan lists - transponder scan lists. We could maybe host on videolan? I don't mind maintaining but i still think offline is better as lists are fairly static - at least for the established birds.<br>
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> That way<br>
> I can reference them from the dvb code and allow for scanning of<br>
> satellites by sat name/position.<br>
> Is this something we could consider at all (It'll add a few kb). if so,<br>
> where's the best place to put them and how should I access the lists from<br>
> the VLC code (is there a generic way of handling such text file resources?)<br>
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</div>Platform-independent data is usually stored in share/*/ and found with<br>
config_GetDataDir(). But I am not sure it is workable in this case.<br><div class="im"></div></blockquote><div><br>Not workable because we're not sure about offline files? Or not workable because of something else?<br>
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