[mythtv] DVB-T UK xmltv ids

[John Pullan]

On 25/10/05, John Pullan <john.pullan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14/06/05, John Pullan <john.pullan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 13/06/05, Mattias Holmlund <mattias.holmlund at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > My 2 cents on the issue...
> > >
> > > On 6/13/05, John Pullan <john.pullan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > xmtvids. Do we need multiple id's dependent on which grabber you are
> > > > using. E.g tv_grab_uk_rt and tv_grab_uk_bleb both use different ids.
> > > >
> > >
> > > The idea with the xmltv ids is that they should uniquely identify a
> > > channel. Their behaviour is  specified in rfc 2838:
> > >
> > > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2838.html
> > >
> > > (see definition of "broadcast").
> > >
> > > If everybody followed this rfc there should be very few problems.
> > > There is of course several ways to name each channel and still follow
> > > the RFC, but we should encourage the different grabbers to cooperate
> > > and in my opinion, whoever is the first to provide data for a specific
> > > channel gets to choose the xmltvid for it and everyone else should use
> > > the same.
> > >
> > > By providing a list with mappings from DVB-T Channel name / ID to
> > > xmltvid we can actually encourage cooperation.
> > >
> > > So I think we should only map each channel to one xmltvid and make
> > > tv_grab_* adapt and cooperate.
> > >
> > > /Mattias (author of tv_grab_se_swedb)
> > >
> >
> > Does zap2it work in the same way with the standard ids ? (no clue
> > about this service as I live in the uk)
> >
> > BTW I lied, and I hope to have something simple written by the end of
> > the week :)
>
> Ahem so it it took me a bit longer than I thought. Anyway this is a
> very basic app which matches the callsign from a list of ids found in
> a file and applies an xmltvid to the DB.
>
> usage :
> xmltvid <videosource> <idfile>
> e.g xmltvid 1 ids.txt
>
> The format of the ids.txt is :
> callsign,xmltvid,service id,network id
>
> if service id is not found then it tries to match against network id.
> If network id can't be matched then callsign is used.
>
> e.g
> BBC ONE,london.bbc1.bbc.co.uk,0,9018
> BBC ONE,london.bbc1.bbc.co.uk,4164,9018
> BBC ONE,north-west.bbc1.bbc.co.uk,4168,9018
> would cause BBC One north west to be chosen if the network id was 9018
> and the service id is 4168. Otherwise it would default to london.
>
> Feedback is appreciated

Ahem, and here's the code


--
John
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