[mythtv] ATSC EIT info.

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Fri Oct 7 21:08:10 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 22:37 +0100, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> What is the main difference between ATSC EIT events &
> DVB EIT events?
> As far as I can see the DVB EIT events are self contained,
> so only the event itself would be needed to build an EPG,
> but are the ATSC EIT events missing some information that
> you have to work out based upon where you get the event from?
> 
> (I'm thinking mainly the mplexid here.)
Do you mean chanid?

The ATSC EIT tables contain a sourceid, which we link
to chanid using the VCT table which lists the sourceid
for each channel.

All the specs for this aspect of ATSC is available at
  http://www.atsc.org

I don't know anything about DVB EIT info.

-- Daniel




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