[mythtv-users] Channel 4HD leaving Freesat EPG Tomorrow (UK)

[Mike Bibbings]

On 21/02/18 13:24, jksj wrote:
> On 21/02/18 12:50, Andre Newman MythTV wrote:
>> Hi, seems we will no longer have Channel 4 HD in the Freesat epg from 
>> tomorrow, the very short notice reeks of a contract dispute to me.
>>
>> I heard from a friend there that the transmission will still be FTA, 
>> unencrypted, I’m also hoping there is some basic eit (now & next) 
>> still in the stream, that way MythTV may well continue to work well 
>> enough. There’s always xmltv if there’s no eit or Freeview HD, 
>> luckily I can get both, I dropped enough hints that they should leave 
>> some vestigial eit in there but will see when the Freesat epg data 
>> runs out on Saturday.
>>
>> Just a heads up for Freesat people in the UK.
>>
>> Andre
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> Presumably it is possible to copy the EIT data from the Chanel 4 SD 
> feed, does anybody have an appropriate bit of SQL?

I don't recommend using sql (too easy to make a mistake!)

There is an old (very old)  for mythtv 0.24  script which may do the job 
see  https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Cross-eit.py

It outputs the data from a chanid to an xml file which  can  be read 
into database via mythfilldatabase --file --xmlfile <your file name> 
--sourceid <n>

Mike