[mythtv-users] EIT Question

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:52 PM, OJ <olejl77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am getting all my EPG data from EIT. My provider
> (http://www.showtimearabia.com) only transmit information about
> current and next show on each channel. I know for a fact that more
> information is available because if I use my Humax DVB-S the EPG gives
> me listings for a week. After using dvbsnoop I have seen that most of
> the transponders provide additional EIT on PID#0x12. This correspond
> to the DVB_EIT_PID = 0x0012 definition in mpegtables.h. My problem is
> that I don't get any of this information in my EPG, and I could need
> some assistance to find out how to solve it.
>
> Is there any setting I can do to enable this?
>
> When I do a channel scan none of the EIT PIDs show up in the channel
> table. Are they supposed to? Is it required that they are in the
> channel list to enable the extra EIT information? (To enable
> 'overtheair...')
>
> If this is somthing that is not implemented I'm willing to spend some
> time implementing (or at least figure out what is missing), but I
> would like some hints & tips before I started off.
>

Does the DVB-S eit give the correct info for the DVB-T transmissions?
ie are they transmitting the same stuff? If so you can use the
downloaded eit from DVB-S to create a xmltv file which you can use for
mythfilldatabase.

If you want an example google epgsnoop.

>
> (I've tried this question before without any response:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/361391. Just trying
> to be more precise.)
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