[vlc-devel] [PATCH] DVB-S scanning support

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 15:52:31 +0300, David Kaplan <david at 2of1.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Ilkka Ollakka <ileoo at videolan.org> wrote:
> 
>> Maybe we could just directly use those dvb-s files as playlist-files and
>> parse them (like channels.conf etc) ?
>>
> 
> The transponder files are not channel files. 'Playing' one of those items
> will not achieve what we need (i.e. channel scanning).

VLC should be able to 'play' a whole transponder though, i.e. convert it
into a channel list, similar to the file-system directory plugin.
Only one transponder at a time would be scanned; I don't know if this is
good or bad.

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