[mythtv] Re:DVB alpha-0.4

[Edward Wildgoose]

The info is in the channels table in the xmltvid field.  

I haven't looked at the mythfilldatabase code, but based on observations on what happens if I screw up the .xmltv file it is designed to read the xml download, which will usually also contain tuning info (although this seems to only apply to North American users?).  Anyway, any xml channel info it finds which isn't already mapped, it turns into a new channel in the DB.  However, if you already have the channel setup then it doesn't do anything.  The --manual flag just prompts you for the tuning info, so in the current case we could just tweak the code so that it will prompt for DVB settings instead of analogue settings, but to be kind to the user we will probably prefer to read the stuff from a channels.conf file

For many DVB users, xmltv will not be needed though because the program stream is supposed to contain all the tv time info.  In the uk though, for DVB-T this is not happening (will it ever?)

Clear as mud...?

Ed W

-----Original Message-----
From: John Knottenbelt [mailto:jak97 at doc.ic.ac.uk]
Sent: 11 September 2003 15:54
To: Development of mythtv; Edward Wildgoose
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Re:DVB alpha-0.4


> The plan is to extend the backend setup screen to allow DVB cards to be
> added (should be trivial addition to the drop down list of card types). 
> Then initially adding an "import from channels.conf" option, and later all
> the manual/automatic channel tuning stuff for analogue and digital.

How does MythTV currently associate "ordinary (non dvb)" channels with EPG 
information from xmltv? 

In the backend setup it would be important to be able to relate the DVB 
channel (eg. imported from channels.conf) with the EPG information from 
xmltv. 

Any ideas?

Cheers

John