[mythtv] Re : EIT fixup help please

[manu]

On 04/25/2008 04:21:52 PM, Wim Fokkens wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sunday 20 April 2008 19:00:37 manu wrote:
> > >
> > > I would like to improve the eit in 2 ways: first all accents
> (French)
> > > are not correctly displayed, and I would like to do something
> about
> > > it. I guess I need to hack something up in eitfixup but it is not
> > > clear how yet, any pointer would be more than welcome.
> > 
> > That's probably a missing encoding in the eit. look at the bottom 
> of
> > libmythtv/eithelper.cpp. We can override the encoding with setting
> the
> > eitfixup to kForceIso8859_15. The keys of the eitfixup map are
> > transport id << 32 | original network id << 16 | serviceid
> > 
> > If the service id is 0 the all channels on the transport will 
> match.
> if
> > transport and serviceid are 0, all channels with the origianl
> network
> > id wil match.
> > 
> > > Moreover I am in the process of decoding the proprietary epg of
> > > canalsat caraibes (French people with canalsat subscription who
> might
> > > want to try it can contact me). It provides a 7-10 days epg and I
> > > would like to make the backend aware of it but it is not just a
> fixuo
> > > here, so if someone canpoint me to some docs on how to try to do
> it,
> > > that would be great.
> > 
> > How different are this epg data from standard EIT? Is there a way 
> to
> > detect if the data is broadcasted (maybe a descriptor in PMT). I
> fear
> > there is no manuel and why have to look at the code and try to
> > implement the epg gathering and parsing along the EIT and ATSC epg
> > bits.
> 
> It seems like we are talking about Media Highway EPG here (the
> provider
> seems to be from the canal digital group.)
> This guy already write some code for this type of epg.
> 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/250280?
> search_string=%5Bmyt
> htv%5D%20MHW%20EPG%20Patch%20%28sort%20of%29;#250280

Yes I tried to contact him but with no luck, I'll try again to see if 
we can merge our efforts.
Thanks,
Manu