[mythtv] Freesat (UK)
Simon Kenyon
simon at koala.ie
Mon May 12 12:49:08 UTC 2008
David Matthews wrote:
> John wrote:
>
>> Very Interested. Glad to see my evil plan of luring other people into
>> working on it was successful ;-)
>>
>> Could you post a diff of what you did to play around ? Like to see it
>> for myself. My interest is in ending up with matching programme info for
>> my freeview and freesat sources, as at the moment I want to use the
>> programmeid/seriesID stuff to check for repeats, but there is no easy
>> way to share the freeview eit info over to the matching freesat
>> channels. If they end up effectively simulcasting so that freeview eit =
>> freesat eit, then all the issues of scheduling between sources
>> dissapear. :-)
>>
>
> Just at the moment the TV-Anytime CRIDs seem to be fictitious so it's
> not going to be very helpful. However when the EPG comes live it looks
> as though it will do what you want. I think it's very likely that the
> Freesat and Freeview EPGs will be close or identical since they're going
> to be derived from the same database. There'll be a need for a patch to
> apply the UK EIT fixup to the Freesat EIT as well as Freeview but it
> makes sense to leave that until everything settles down.
>
> I'm including the diff below. I hope it will be readable enough
> although you may need to correct for line breaks in the wrong place.
> Since this is only temporary it's not appropriate to create a ticket.
> If you already have schedule data from, e.g. Radio Times, you may not
> want to try this because it could well overwrite the data you have. I
> think the information is on various BBC transponders. I use 10802750
> horizontal.
>
> I've also been testing some updates to the MHEG code to take account of
> the additional features that are used in the current Freesat interactive
> tests. I thought I'd wait until the current release is out of the way
> before creating a ticket and also incorporate any changes that are
> needed once a fuller interactive service starts to appear.
>
> David.
>
> Index: libs/libmythtv/mpeg/dvbstreamdata.cpp
> ===================================================================
> --- libs/libmythtv/mpeg/dvbstreamdata.cpp (revision 16387)
> +++ libs/libmythtv/mpeg/dvbstreamdata.cpp (working copy)
>
[snip]
i added this and i can see a lot of shows now in the epg. can only test
from work, so all i can use is mythweb.
it doesn't appear to be adding any program info, just genre and duration.
is there an update?
--
simon
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