[mythtv-users] Telly's Free Program Guide

Shawn core at enodev.com
Thu Jul 17 12:54:08 EDT 2003


Ditto on the OCR, but the VBI idea is good, I think.

Check out http://www.goron.de/~froese/ where there is already a viewer
for /dev/vbi stuff. 

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 11:05, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > I'm thinking something along the lines of mythtv releasing the video
> > device and running an external script when it is not recording.  The
> > external script could tune to the channel with the listings, grab a video
> > capture of the guide screen, ocr, parse the information, insert into
> > database, have the cable box move to the next page, repeat.
> 
> Other than the absurdity of this (have you ever actually USED an ocr? 
> the good ones need 150+ dpi scans, and are marginal at best for
> recognizing text.  Or the fact that you can't decode a digital cable
> signal on any computer tv card yet), this sort of defeats the purpose of
> having weeks-in-advance program listings.  Program listings would be
> kind of silly if you only got them a few hours (or even a day) in
> advance.
> 
> -Chris
> 
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