[mythtv-users] xmltv + DVB-EPG to re-schedule moved shows like VPS?

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Wed Nov 22 16:22:43 UTC 2017


On Wed, 2017-11-22 at 15:41 +0000, Jan Schneider wrote:
> 
> That's not an option for the eu_epgdata grabber, because it has rate  
> limits. It's not really possible to run it more than once a day.
> 
> I've asked myself (and IIRC this list too) exactly the same when I  
> started using MythTV many years ago. The problem with this approach  
> is, that the DVB EPG data isn't necessarily more current than what's  
> provided by external EPG data.

IIRC (been a while since I played with DVB EPG in the UK) it can also
differ subtly in the spelling/punctuation etc of titles which makes
recording rules which were correctly matching the externally provided
data stop matching when an OTA update hits.

Ian.


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