[mythtvnz] Manipulating Program Guide Information

Steve Hodge mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:26:14 +1300


On 2/23/06, David Zanetti <david.zanetti@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 09:13 +1300, Toby Mills wrote:
> > We could also introduce some extra smarts and store information
> > such as categories etc and munge them into the XML for programs that ar=
e
> > on every week.
>
> BTW, there is catagory data in the EIT, but the tool I'm using doesn't
> parse it. Using dvbsnoop, I can see it. It looks like Sky are sending
> it, tho EIT data on TVNZ's own transponder doesn't have catagories. (Sky
> have catagories for TVNZ channels on their transponders..)
>
> Fixing tv_grab_dvb is on my todo list.. (but, it's a long list :) )

I've been to take a look at getting tv_grab_dvb to do the tunning
itself so we don't need to run dvbstream. But I haven't gotten round
to it.

Steve