[mythtv-users] UK TV Listings

[Nick Craig-Wood]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:52:33AM +0100, Mark wrote:
> > The data seems to be slightly different on the different multiplexes!
> > I guess this will get sorted eventually.
> 
> Interesting. I hadn't noticed that - is it significant (any
> examples?)

I just did a test...

There just seem to be quite a lot less programs - I haven't put my
finger on a consistent difference though

diff -u schedule_sorted.xml schedule-itv-sorted.xml | diffstat
 schedule-itv-sorted.xml | 3294 +-----------------------------------------------
 1 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 3211 deletions(-)

There are about 350 programmes missing...

missing service_id
      1 14656
      1 15040
      1 15168
      1 18240
      1 4351
      1 8325
      1 8384
      1 8448
      2 14336
      2 14592
      2 26176
      2 8454
      3 16832
      3 17920
      3 25728
      3 26560
      3 4228
      3 8261
      4 14400
      5 12866
      5 16960
      5 25792
      5 26624
      9 18176
     10 22080
     10 22144
     18 22208
     18 22272
     18 25856
     20 18112
     22 18048
     22 4164
     25 14528
     26 4671
     32 16768
     62 26496

There isn't all the programs missing though...

> > Ideally I'd like an external way of tuning mythtv to multiplex 1
> > before collecting EPG data (if that tuner wasn't doing anything else).
> 
> Is anyone using the 'dvb on demand' setting?

I've not seen this one...  Is it post 0.14?

> If the card is not always used by mythtv then it shouldn't be too
> hard to run a script to tune to the 'best' multiplex (using one of
> the dvb utils) and then run the grabber. That would also give
> consistency on EPG data.

Sounds like a good idea.  Could also facilitate listening to the radio
stations which I'd like to do not via mythtv.

> > One thing I was wondering about - categories don't seem to line up
> > exactly with what mythtv is expecting...  The category searches don't
> > work in mythtv and the movie search doesn't work in mythweb.  I think
> > this is beause the category is "Movie / Drama" rather than "Movie".  I
> > don't know whether it would be correct to change the output of
> > tv_grab_dvb to match the categories of mythtv more exactly...  It
> > clear that mythweb understands more of the categories by the fact it
> > colours more things than mythtv.
> 
> Should be simple enough to edit the source to line them up.

Yes... I'd like to know what is correct first though!

-- 
Nick Craig-Wood
ncw1 at axis.demon.co.uk