[mythtv] BBC series link

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 17:07 +0000, David Matthews wrote:
> Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:31:34PM +0000, David Matthews wrote:
> >> 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?
> >>
> > As Rudy said, they don't generally change these things once they've been
> > rolled out as it affects all the STB's out there. So please put this up
> > as a patch (and assign it to me please)
> 
> I've created a ticket with the changes I needed in order to pick up this 
> information and put it in the database.  It's very simple.  The ticket 
> is currently assigned to danielk since there doesn't seem to be an 
> obvious way to assign a ticket any longer.
> 
> What concerns me a bit about this is why they used a private type when 
> there are standard types they could have used.  It looks as though type 
> 0x01 should be the programId and 0x02 the seriesId.  I gather the BBC 
> are currently running some sort of trial of their own PVR so it may have 
> something to do with that.

I think this is likely, they just added 0x30 to the correct
values so it would be ignored by STB other than the ones in
the trial.

Have you tried e-mailing them? You might get some useful info
by just finding one of the engineers/programmers in the project
and asking them what's up.

-- Daniel