[mythtv] BBC series link
Rudy Zijlstra
mythtv at edsons.demon.nl
Sun Dec 17 16:06:50 UTC 2006
David Matthews wrote:
>The BBC is now broadcasting some form of series link information in the
>EIT. It seems to be based on ETSI TS 102 323 (TV-Anytime). The
>information is carried in a "dvb content identifier" descriptor (0x76)
>in the EIT which contains one or two content identifiers (CRIDs). These
>CRIDs have type codes 0x31 and 0x32 which are "User private" types
>according to TS 102 323. However, it seems that the 0x31 descriptor
>corresponds to the programId and the 0x32 descriptor (approximately) to
>the seriesId so I've been experimenting with adding these into the
>"program" table. The programId works pretty well and does avoid some
>duplicate recordings that would otherwise have happened because of
>slight differences in the subtitle or description text.
>
>I'm not happy about proposing this as a patch because of the use of the
>private types. I guess the BBC could change this at any time. Does
>anyone have any more information about this?
>
>
>
Generally speaking the private types are pretty stable. changing them
implies changing all the STB's that make use of them. That is a
significant action..... Even on a set of 400 field test units, i've seen
some units run an old SW image half a year after a new image had been
released.
Cheers,
Rudy
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