[mythtv-users] DVB-S EIT Data?

Simeon Walker simeon at bangor.ac.uk
Fri Apr 22 14:02:48 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 09:58 -0400, cythrault at gmail.com wrote:
> On 4/22/05, Simeon Walker <simeon at bangor.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 08:32 -0400, cythrault at gmail.com wrote:
> > > On 4/22/05, Rudy Zijlstra <mythtv at edsons.demon.nl> wrote:
> > > > With respect to unknown tag: many broadcasters are using private
> > > > extensions, and as long as those are not known, interpreting is somewhat
> > > > difficult. Not impossible though. Simply needs analysis and code
> > > > addition. You may have to wait some time though for the update to be
> > > > processed. It does not matter whether you are actually watching the
> > > > channel or not (as long as the adapter is always opened).
> > >
> > > Would this explain why most channels I usually watch have their eit
> > > data parsed correctly while ~50% of my channel's eit data cannot be
> > > parsed? I'm on bev; Canadian provider...
> > >
> > > What can I do to help add those descriptors? I remember sending over a
> > > dump as requested by Taylor...
> > >
> > I guess I'll have to get a dump. Do you remember how you generated it?
> > Was it with dvbsnoop?
> 
> No...
> 
> Here's the mail Yalor sent me. I'm attaching the dump generated by this app.
> 
> 
Thanks for that. I'll have a go at that tonight.

Regards,
Simeon

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Taylor Jacob <rtjacob at earthlink.net>
> Date: Mar 28, 2005 1:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] EIT data not showing up
> To: cythrault at gmail.com, Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> 
> Quoting cythrault at gmail.com:
> > Even after the recent commits to the cvs concerning eit, I have not be
> > able to see any epg data.
> 
> What provider are you attempting to use EIT with?  There are many descriptors
> that are not handled at this point in time.. 99% of which are not really
> necessary..
> 
> > I'm not sure how to debug this. I've tried running the backend with -v
> > siparser and it resulted in a lot of "Unknown Descriptor" messages.
> > Could it mean that my provider's tables are not in myth?
> 
> Download and run that while you are tuned to a single multiplex (you can use zap
> in another window to control which multiplex you are on).. Stop the trace when
> you get 10000 0x12 packets.. It should be obvious.. Then email me that output..
> If you could run this for every multiplex you have that would be greatly
> appreciated..
> 
> http://www.digitalregime.com/mythdvb/patches/dvbmythdump.tar.bz2
> 
> > Note: I've made certain that "dvb on demand" is disabled in mythsetup.
> 
> Good.. :)
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> 
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