[mythtv] DVD-T UK xmltv ids

Ian Armstrong mail01 at iarmst.co.uk
Sat May 28 17:17:00 UTC 2005


On Saturday 28 May 2005 17:12, John Pullan wrote:
> On 28/05/05, Ed W <lists at wildgooses.com> wrote:
> > Below is what I think is a complete list of xmltv id fields for Freeview
> > in the UK (well at least it is if you use radio times since they don't
> > cover a couple of channels).
> >
> > Hope this is useful to someone.  Perhaps someone has some thoughts on a
> > way we could embed this stuff in the setup app and add it in
> > automatically when we do a channel scan?  Perhaps a file per country
> > which ties back to the country choice when you scan?  ServiceID should
> > be unique so I think this should be ok just to have one large file per
> > country?
>
> <snip>
>
> slight issue, BBC1 appears to be service 4168 accross the country :/
>
> So I guess we'd have mapping tables stored in share/mythtv ? While
> we're at it we could also maybe put icon information in as well ?

It depends what region you are in as to what the service id is. My lineup has 
a few differences from those listed, with 4171 being BBC1 (South).

-- 
Ian


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