[mythtv-users] Series and episode numbers in recorded TV using Freeview in UK

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/28/2010 10:46 AM, Simon Kiteley wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>    
>> If you have a listings source that provides series and episode sequence
>> numbers and you want that information available, you'll need to modify the
>> database schema to provide a location for the values, modify
>> mythfilldatabase to store the values, modify MythTV to pass the values
>> (which will need to be done in trunk, since there's been a refactor of the
>> ProgramInfo passing since 0.23), and modify MythTV to make that value
>> available for the theme (modify the program map and the theme XML parsing).
>>      
> UK Freeview OTA services do provide this information. Well an ID to
> identify a set of programs are in the same series and also some way of
> identifying one event is a repeat of another for alternate recordings
> (but not sure if this is an episode number of some random value).
>
> However all the stuff you have described above would mean I'd probably
> get completely lost at the first step and by the time I'd researched
> it all... old and grey ;)
>
> So does mythfilldatabase take the stuff on the stream and stick it in
> the database or is it more for getting things from the internet?
>    

Well, EIT would work through the EIT stuff, not through mythfilldatabase 
(so, really any complete fix would have to modify EIT parsing as well as 
mythfilldatabase).

> Would someone know of a good tool just for looking at the DVB-T stream
> so I can see whats on it?
>    

I know there are some, but I'll leave it to others who know EIT better 
than me to mention them.

Mike