[mythtv-users] MythTV in the UK

[Nick Morrott]

On 19 March 2010 15:31, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> Malcolm Parsons wrote:
>>
>> On 18 March 2010 18:15, Richard Morton <richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Currently using EIT but everyone seems to say that XMLTV (RadioTimes)
>>> is the way to go...
>>
>> Having tried the RadioTimes data, I prefer EIT because it has
>> programme ID and series ID information.
>>
> The Radio Times data certainly has program id available for most things that
> I have recorded recently, not sure about episode id. I don't know if this is
> channel-specific or not.

The Radio Times data now has a fair amount of episode numbering
available, but this is not available consistently across all channels.
It is certainly nowhere near as complete as that provided by the
Freeview/Freesat EPGs, or Digiguide online.

Additionally, the Radio Times does not provide the episode/series ID
information that is available on Freeview to enable series-link
behaviour.

> I did notice that this info has only been available within say the last 6-8
> months or so. Perhaps there's been an improvement to the xmltv processing, I
> don't follow that mailing list so I wouldn't know.

I've committed several updates to XMLTV CVS post-0.5.56 to make this
information available. The Radio Times data does not use consistent
formatting of this information, so several regexes are used to parse
it out. At the moment, I'm quite sure that all episode numbering
information is parsed out if provided.

Cheers,
Nick

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