[mythtv] Freesat (UK)

[James Buckley]

Although not exactly on topic, is there any chance that patches to get
Freesat's EPG would make it into 0.21-fixes. 0.22 could be a while, and the
new EPG will make a lot of people's lives easier. I know it's not directly a
fix for a bug, but neither was Schedule Direct (although I can see that the
new EPG is not quite as critical as SD was).

Just wondering, as I think 0.22 will be a little while yet...

James

2008/5/12 Simeon Walker <simbloke at googlemail.com>:

> 2008/5/12 Simon Kenyon <simon at koala.ie>:
>  >
> > David Matthews wrote:
> >  > John wrote:
> >  >
> >  >> 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. :-)
> >  >>
> >  >
> >  > Just at the moment the TV-Anytime CRIDs seem to be fictitious so it's
> >  > not going to be very helpful.  However when the EPG comes live it
> looks
> >  > as though it will do what you want.  I think it's very likely that
> the
> >  > Freesat and Freeview EPGs will be close or identical since they're
> going
> >  > to be derived from the same database.  There'll be a need for a patch
> to
> >  > apply the UK EIT fixup to the Freesat EIT as well as Freeview but it
> >  > makes sense to leave that until everything settles down.
> >  >
> >  > I'm including the diff below.  I hope it will be readable enough
> >  > although you may need to correct for line breaks in the wrong place.
> >  > Since this is only temporary it's not appropriate to create a ticket.
> >  > If you already have schedule data from, e.g. Radio Times, you may not
> >  > want to try this because it could well overwrite the data you have.
>  I
> >  > think the information is on various BBC transponders. I use 10802750
> >  > horizontal.
> >  >
> >  > I've also been testing some updates to the MHEG code to take account
> of
> >  > the additional features that are used in the current Freesat
> interactive
> >  > tests.  I thought I'd wait until the current release is out of the
> way
> >  > before creating a ticket and also incorporate any changes that are
> >  > needed once a fuller interactive service starts to appear.
> >  >
> >  > David.
> >  >
> >  > Index: libs/libmythtv/mpeg/dvbstreamdata.cpp
> >  > ===================================================================
> >  > --- libs/libmythtv/mpeg/dvbstreamdata.cpp       (revision 16387)
> >  > +++ libs/libmythtv/mpeg/dvbstreamdata.cpp       (working copy)
> >  >
> >  [snip]
> >
> >  i added this and i can see a lot of shows now in the epg. can only test
> >  from work, so all i can use is mythweb.
> >  it doesn't appear to be adding any program info, just genre and
> duration.
> >  is there an update?
> >  --
> >  simon
> >
> Apart from it being on a different PID I think the data is compressed.
> Could that account for it? Have you seen the thread on the digitalspy
> forums?
> http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=751053&page=4
>
> Sim
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