[vlc-devel] DVB-S scanning

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le samedi 31 juillet 2010 22:58:10 David Kaplan, vous avez écrit :
> 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.

Maintaining lists for the entire Earth?

> > > That way
> > > I can reference them from the dvb code and allow for scanning of
> > > satellites by sat name/position.
> > > Is this something we could consider at all (It'll add a few kb). if so,
> > > where's the best place to put them and how should I access the lists
> > > from the VLC code (is there a generic way of handling such text file
> > 
> > resources?)
> > 
> > Platform-independent data is usually stored in share/*/ and found with
> > config_GetDataDir(). But I am not sure it is workable in this case.
> 
> Not workable because we're not sure about offline files?

Yes.

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