[mythtv-users] "Cross Source EIT"

[Janne Grunau]

On Monday 05 March 2007 18:59:17 Nick Morrott wrote:
>
> Do you know of any work underway that will allow the easy usage of
> EIT data on non-EIT sources.

There is a ticket in trac but I have no idea if it is/was useful.

> Your above answer answers my own 
> findings in that it does not work in its current state, but it would
> be so useful to be able to easily use EIT data for channels available
> on other sources that can not get listings data from elsewhere easily
> (such as DVB radio listings in my case).

They simplest solution is probably tv_grab_dvb + mythfilldatabase.

> If there is no current work underway, how big a job would it be to
> add this functionality to the EIT scanner?

It's not that easy. It would either require some hacks to add a single 
event to multiple channels or m:1 relation of channel to program data. 

Janne