[mythtv] EIT and EPG

[Dave Oxley]

Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:07:16PM +0200, Wim Fokkens wrote:
>> That's the same here in the Netherlands (DVB-s) Now and next is over EIT and
>> the full epg is on a separate EPG channel. Here this is called Media HighWay
>> EPG and is used by the Canal Digital Group for several country's.
>>
>> If support for this type of EPG could go on the EIT rewrite do to list. This
>> would be highly appreciated by dutch DVB-s Viewers.
>>
> 
> That's fairly common in dvb-s setups. And yes it's on the todo list.
> 
> For bonus points we can hopefully use the linkage tables to find
> the relevant transport & channel....

Thats very good news. As no doubt people are aware getting good guide
data in Australia is a non-trivial task.

Another thing to put on the TODO list once this is done would be to have
the ability to copy/link guide data to a channel on a different video
source. This would be useful as some channels such as ABC are broadcast
over DVB-S and DVB-T and it would be good to be able to copy the guide
data from the DVB-S channel to the DVB-T channel. This would mean I
would only have to use tv_grab for a couple of channels that come over
DVB-T but not on DVB-S.

Cheers,
Dave.