[mythtv] Freesat (UK)

[John]

David Matthews wrote:
> Simon Kenyon wrote:
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>> do we have any idea where, when and how the EPG will be broadcast?
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>
> Just an update on this.  There has been some information on one of the 
> digitalspy forums about some testing EPG information that has recently 
> appeared on several of the BBC transponders.  It appears to be normal 
> EIT but on a non-standard PID.  At the moment most, but not all, of the 
> programme titles are scrambled but that could well be because it's just 
> testing data.  I patched Myth to include the testing PID (3842, if 
> anyone's interested) and got EPG information for several BBC and ITV 
> transponders off a single BBC transponder.  It looks as though they are 
> planning to transmit EPG information for all the Freesat transponders on 
> each transponder, as with Freeview.
>
> They are including the TV-Anytime CRIDs which, on Freeview, go into the 
> programid and seriesid fields in the program table.  There is a testing 
> version of the SDT on PID 3841 which includes the "default authority" 
> needed to make the full program and series IDs.
>
> Assuming the scrambled titles are just temporary the EPG should work 
> with little change.  Perhaps they will move it onto the standard PID 
> (18) when they start transmitting real data.
>
> David.
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Very Interested. Glad to see my evil plan of luring other people into 
working on it was successful ;-)

Could you post a diff of what you did to play around ? Like to see  it 
for myself. My interest is in ending up with matching programme info for 
my freeview and freesat sources, as at the moment I want to use the 
programmeid/seriesID stuff to check for repeats, but there is no easy 
way to share the freeview eit info over to the matching freesat 
channels. If they end up effectively simulcasting so that freeview eit = 
freesat eit, then all the issues of scheduling between sources 
dissapear. :-)


John.