[mythtv] Questions for the DVB guys

John Pullan john.pullan at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 18:07:56 UTC 2005


On 01/09/05, Chris Birkinshaw <chris at postbox.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 23 Aug 2005, at 14:59, John Pullan wrote:
> 
> > On 20/08/05, chris at postbox.org.uk <chris at postbox.org.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I have a few questions for the DVB developers:
> >>
> >> 1. Have you considered triggerring of recording start/stop times by
> >> the
> >> updating of EITpf tables? The BBC are using reactive (i.e. triggered
> >> from
> >> the playout automation server) EITpf triggering on Mux1 and MuxB which
> >> means that EITpf always rolls over on the last trail before the next
> >> program no matter how late or early it is. This is the way the whole
> >> network will be going in the not too distant future, and there is
> >> mounting
> >> pressure on PVR manufacturers to support this mode of operation.
> >>
> > Chris,
> >      Could you expand on this a bit more ? Do you mean a particular
> > table or a value within a table ?
> 
> 
> Sorry for the delay in replying, I have been out of the country for a
> while. What I meant is that the mythtv recorder should wait until the
> EIT present subtable for that particular service changes version number
> before starting recording the program, i.e. it should track changes in
> the EIT present event and trigger recording from this. In most cases
> this will happen at the scheduled start time of the program in
> question, irrespective of whether that program is late or early
> starting, however for EITpf Actual on Muxes 1 and B (UK) this EITpf
> change is intelligently triggered at source, ensuring that the EITpf is
> correct even if a program is late starting (e.g. sports match before it
> has overrun by 10 mins). Soon other networks will catch on to this
> system too, though even with only 2 muxes out of 6 having this feature
> it's support by mythtv would be very useful as most of the stuff I
> record is from the BBC anyway.
> 
> Does this make more sense now?
> 

Tables and section numbers please ;p

Is it  the "now next" info (EIT table 4e, on pid 0x12) and the running
status there in ?

At the moment people are trying to get the DVB code back together :), 
but if this feature works then it can go on the to do list.

Regards
-- 
John


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