On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Theunis Potgieter theunis.potgieter@gmail.com wrote:
So if provider 1 broadcasts a 2.1 channel and provider 2 also broadcasts a 2.1 channel and you as a vdr user can have more than 1 provider. What will the channel numbering scheme be for Provider 2? Will this introduce a bouqet in vdr?
That problem already exists even without sub-channels and has never been officially addressed (to my knowledge). The people I know dealing with this issue pad the channel numbers by adding a set number. For example, if provider A and provider B both use 0000-9999 for their channel numbers, the user pads one of the providers by adding say 10000 to the channel numbers thus having one provider retain 0000-9999, and the other becoming 10000-19999.