[mythtv-users] How does XMLTV UK Atlas Grabber Compare To UK Radio Times Grabber / Handle Part Time Freeview Channels?

[Mike Perkins]

On 25/07/14 15:47, Andre Newman wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2014, at 14:45, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
>>
>> Interesting. What advantages do you find with EIT?
>
> It updates… more often than once a day, effectively it’s event driven rather
> than polled.
>
> I find that often sports events overrun, occasionally extend on to another
> channel, if I’m recording that event my recording is complete as EIT has
> extended the programme time. Usually myth picks up the move to another
> channel as a new recording of the same name, I disable duplicate matching for
> sports things so myth records it.
>
> It’s not often I record sports things, sometimes for work, more importantly
> when the programme I do want has been re-scheduled by half an hour or more
> due to the sports event EIT has updated and the recording is fine and
> complete.
>
> xmltv is fine for the sorts of channels where this doesn’t ever happen and
> the better description data is nice, I used to run some channels EIT some
> XMLTV but the programme IDs don’t correspond so often repeats of a show will
> record if it was originally recorded on a channel where I have XMLTV and then
> re-appears years later on an channel where I have EIT. This is very common as
> Pay TV channels get first runs and public TV gets that series a few months or
> years later.
>
> So now I’m entirely EIT things are simpler, I don’t have the PayTV any more
> and that was the only thing I didn’t get good EIT for. I’ll still get re-runs
> of things I saw on pay tv recorded for years to come but never mind, better
> than missing a new series. In the UK we have excellent EIT data thanks to
> Freesat and Freeview EPGs, ok the Atlas or Radio Times data is 2 weeks rather
> than one but I have Mythweb to compensate for that difference.
>
>
Among the downsides are that at least one of your tuners is continually active. 
I know this probably works in your own case but for those who shut down their 
backends between recordings this wouldn't work.

I agree that you either have to use xmltv or EIT for any particular channel and 
that history complicates the issue, effectively forcing a bulk choice of one 
over the other.

I used a system where my TV came through xmltv and the radio channels were EIT, 
because the RT feed didn't supply them. No possibility of any overlap, so that 
worked well.

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Mike Perkins