[mythtv-users] Australians: can you help me gather some data?

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Sat Nov 9 08:35:11 UTC 2013


On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 12:55:15 +0800, you wrote:

>Apologies for being slightly OT, but I would like to compare some OTA 
>dvb data with that from other states.
>
>The data I'm talking about is the Freeview EPG (the one that works only 
>on their devices).
>
>For a while I have been using the EPG data to generate an xmltv file for 
>mythfilldatabase, which has worked quite well. I am now doing a rewrite 
>(in perl rather than c++) so that others can benefit.
>
>So, What I would like is a dump of the DSMCC data from your area. It 
>shouldn't matter what channel you use; they all carry it here in WA.
>I've modified a version of rb-download to download the data and exit 
>after no new data is found.
>
>https://github.com/thiakil/rb-download
>Hopefully the readme is detailed enough. I need the 3 folders it 
>creates; cache, carousels, services. One they're tarred up (gz or bzip2 
>preferred) it should be a small file, direct email should be fine.
>
>It would also be helpful if you can provide me a copy of the 
>channels.conf file (so I can see which channels your actually receive), 
>and your region (e.g. nsw Sydney; qld regional, etc)
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
>
>PS. if any New Zealanders read this, you're welcome to try too; I recall 
>from a windows based project to do this that the data is very similar.

In New Zealand, we have a good tool for grabbing the EPG from the
MHEG5 stream in the DVB-T transmissions, mhegepgsnoop:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/mhegepgsnooppy/


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