[mythtvnz] FreeView MHEG-5 EPG in action

[Steven Ellis]

Steve Hodge wrote:
> On 3/3/07, *Steven Ellis* <steven@openmedia.co.nz
> <mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, March 3, 2007 6:04 pm, Steve Hodge wrote:
>     > Do you know anything about TVNZ's plans re EPG data? Are they
>     going to
>     > continue to broadcast the data in the standard DVB way as well?
>     If not,
>     > will it be possible to extract the EPG data from the MHEG5 stream?
>
>     Nothing confirmed, but there are some rumours that they will only have
>     Now/Next in the EIT data. It is a way to force equipment suppliers to
>     support their MHEG-5 based EPG.
>
>
> Thought that might be the case. Also makes things more difficult for
> Sky, should they decide to tune FreeView channels. AFAICS there's
> nothing stopping Sky tuning FreeView channels without help or consent
> from TVNZ or anyone else, but they are going to have to deal with the
> FreeView broadcasters if they want the EPG data in their guide.
>
>     The data appears to be quite easy to parse. I was able to get a
>     dump of it
>     using the code from http://redbutton.sf.net
>
>
> That's good news.
Well I've just submitted the patch back to the MythTV Team - See
http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3162. Not bad that MythTV can support
this 2 Months before the official launch :)

With regards to EPG data, initially there will only be TV One, TV2, TV3
and C4 on FreeView so we can always grab the EIT data off Sky. If they
do decide to drop the EIT data on FreeView should have a reasonable
amount of time to generate a MHEG->XMLTV converter. Meanwhile if anyone
wants to go through the exercise of generating one it would provide us
with reasonable radio listings to go with the existing TV listings.


Steve

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