[mythtv-users] Channel 4HD leaving Freesat EPG Tomorrow (UK)

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:14:11 +0000, you wrote:

>
>
>On 21/02/18 14:01, Mike Bibbings wrote:
>> On 21/02/18 13:24, jksj wrote:
>>> On 21/02/18 12:50, Andre Newman MythTV wrote:
>>>> Hi, seems we will no longer have Channel 4 HD in the Freesat epg 
>>>> from tomorrow, the very short notice reeks of a contract dispute to me.
>>>>
>>>> I heard from a friend there that the transmission will still be FTA, 
>>>> unencrypted, I’m also hoping there is some basic eit (now & next) 
>>>> still in the stream, that way MythTV may well continue to work well 
>>>> enough. There’s always xmltv if there’s no eit or Freeview HD, 
>>>> luckily I can get both, I dropped enough hints that they should 
>>>> leave some vestigial eit in there but will see when the Freesat epg 
>>>> data runs out on Saturday.
>>>>
>>>> Just a heads up for Freesat people in the UK.
>>>>
>>>> Andre
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>>>
>>> Presumably it is possible to copy the EIT data from the Chanel 4 SD 
>>> feed, does anybody have an appropriate bit of SQL?
>>
>> I don't recommend using sql (too easy to make a mistake!)
>>
>> There is an old (very old)  for mythtv 0.24  script which may do the 
>> job see  https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Cross-eit.py
>>
>> It outputs the data from a chanid to an xml file which  can  be read 
>> into database via mythfilldatabase --file --xmlfile <your file name> 
>> --sourceid <n>
>>
>> Mike
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>ok that works :-)
>To clarify
>Find the chanid for Channel 4 London on Freesat.
>
>select serviceid,channum,mplexid,sourceid,callsign,chanid from channel 
>where serviceid=9211 order by sourceid,mplexid,channum;
>+-----------+---------+---------+----------+-----------+--------+
>| serviceid | channum | mplexid | sourceid | callsign  | chanid |
>+-----------+---------+---------+----------+-----------+--------+
>|      9211 | 126     |       1 |        2 | Channel 4 | 11211 |
>+-----------+---------+---------+----------+-----------+--------+
>
>Use that number, in this case 11211 as the first parameter in cross-eit.
>The second parameter is an arbitrary identifier which cross-eit embeds 
>in the output.
>/cross-eit.py 11211,"hd.channel4.com"
>
>The identifier must now be entered as the xmltvid field for Channel 4 
>HD. This can be done with mythweb without resorting to SQL. Click on the 
>settings page, select TV then Channel Info and update the xmltvid field 
>for Channel 4 HD. Increase the recpriority to 2 while on the same line 
>(to compensate for the entries not being marked as HD). Press save at 
>the bottom of the page.
>
>Then call
>mythfilldatabase --refresh-all --verbose xmltv --file --sourceid 2 
>--xmlfile output.xml
>with the correct sourcid for freesat on your system as shown in the 
>above table.
>
>So once set up a simple script can be run daily.
>~/cross-eit.py 11211,"hd.channel4.com"
>mythfilldatabase --refresh-all --verbose xmltv --file --sourceid 2 
>--xmlfile output.xml
>
>Many thanks to  Rune Evjen for Coss-eit and Mike Bibbings for the 
>suggestion.

Are all the programmes on the HD channels normally marked as HD in the
EPG?  If so, it would be fairly easy to add an option to cross-eit.py
to allow it to add the HDTV tag in the xmltv data.  In New Zealand,
our HDTV tags look like this:

    <video>
      <present>yes</present>
      <quality>HDTV</quality>
    </video>

Is it the same in the UK?