[mythtv] grr, DVB (uk) channels started moving around...

Ciaran ciaranj at gmail.com
Tue Oct 12 10:53:43 UTC 2004


We could strip the imformation out easily enough with this,  and to
build a basic script interpreter, perhaps just to provide text
initially surely wouldn't be that great ?
http://libdsmcc.sourceforge.net/
- ciaran


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:16:22 +0100, Stephen Williams
<stephen.gw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The splash screen you are talking about I assume its generated by the STB?
> 
> The splash screen you're talking about is transmitted in a data PID.
> The data PID contains an MHEG-5 data stream (well, in the UK at least)
> which is the standard format used for 'digital teletext' in the UK.
> There's a Java MHEG-5 decoder on the web somewhere but it's not
> complete.
> 
> I've given up on the possibility of an MHEG-5 decoder being added to
> Myth since it's only used in the UK and the work required would be too
> great. Instead we should probably detect that there are no audio /
> video PIDs assigned and put up an inbuilt 'this channel is currently
> unavailble' message.
> 
> Steve
> 
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