[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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