[mythtv] DVB-T UK xmltv ids

[John Pullan]

On 14/06/05, John Pullan <john.pullan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/06/05, Mattias Holmlund <mattias.holmlund at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My 2 cents on the issue...
> >
> > On 6/13/05, John Pullan <john.pullan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > xmtvids. Do we need multiple id's dependent on which grabber you are
> > > using. E.g tv_grab_uk_rt and tv_grab_uk_bleb both use different ids.
> > >
> >
> > The idea with the xmltv ids is that they should uniquely identify a
> > channel. Their behaviour is  specified in rfc 2838:
> >
> > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2838.html
> >
> > (see definition of "broadcast").
> >
> > If everybody followed this rfc there should be very few problems.
> > There is of course several ways to name each channel and still follow
> > the RFC, but we should encourage the different grabbers to cooperate
> > and in my opinion, whoever is the first to provide data for a specific
> > channel gets to choose the xmltvid for it and everyone else should use
> > the same.
> >
> > By providing a list with mappings from DVB-T Channel name / ID to
> > xmltvid we can actually encourage cooperation.
> >
> > So I think we should only map each channel to one xmltvid and make
> > tv_grab_* adapt and cooperate.
> >
> > /Mattias (author of tv_grab_se_swedb)
> >
>
> Does zap2it work in the same way with the standard ids ? (no clue
> about this service as I live in the uk)
>
> BTW I lied, and I hope to have something simple written by the end of
> the week :)

Ahem so it it took me a bit longer than I thought. Anyway this is a
very basic app which matches the callsign from a list of ids found in
a file and applies an xmltvid to the DB.

usage :
xmltvid <videosource> <idfile>
e.g xmltvid 1 ids.txt

The format of the ids.txt is :
callsign,xmltvid,service id,network id

if service id is not found then it tries to match against network id.
If network id can't be matched then callsign is used.

e.g
BBC ONE,london.bbc1.bbc.co.uk,0,9018
BBC ONE,london.bbc1.bbc.co.uk,4164,9018
BBC ONE,north-west.bbc1.bbc.co.uk,4168,9018
would cause BBC One north west to be chosen if the network id was 9018
and the service id is 4168. Otherwise it would default to london.

Feedback is appreciated
--
John