[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] Re: Ticket #344: DVB EIT fails to insert event data into database

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 18:21 +0100, John Pullan wrote:
> On 09/10/05, MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org> wrote:
> > #344: DVB EIT fails to insert event data into database
> > ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------
> 
> > Comment:
> >
> >  Until someone has a patch to add this feature, I'm closing the ticket.
> >
> >  There is some support for short descriptors, and hence the messages, but
> >  it is not complete. DVB EIT guide insertion currently requires long DVB
> >  EIT descriptors. If someone is interested in writing the code to make
> >  guide insertion work with short DVB EIT descriptors I'll review it. Make
> >  sure not to break things for people that have both long and short
> >  descriptors.
> >
> Daniel,
>      The DVB EIT code does support both long and short descriptors, it
> does not support
> 55 : parental rating
> 5f : private data
> 41 : service list
> 64 : data broadcast descriptor
> Non of the above are really crucial, at least not in the UK.
> 
> I don't know why it's not working but it's not the lack of short event parsing.
> Regards

John, do you want to look at this? I don't have DVB reception
so any changes I make require a rather long modify/test cycle.
I'm not ready to go through that torture for the Experimental
EIT parsing.

-- Daniel