[mythtvnz] Season and episode numbers in EPG?

[Steven Ellis]

David Teirney wrote:
> Does anyone know if the various broadcasters plan on putting the
> season and episode numbers into the transmitted EPG information?
>
> There's a nice slot already available for it in the XMLTV
> specification (http://xmltv.cvs.sourceforge.net/xmltv/xmltv/xmltv.dtd?view=markup)
>
> <!ELEMENT episode-num (#PCDATA)>
>
> That information would make it infinitely more possible to have the
> recorded myth TV shows added into the TV Shows library for something
> like XBox Media Center (XBMC - http://xbmc.org) which deals with
> scraping all the great other information like fanart from sites like
> theTVDB.com.
>   

There are no plans for this from freeview, but the are looking at
supporting some of the "EIT actual" extensions as well as the series
link functions freeview UK supports. These should appear around the same
time as the "official" PVRs.

Sky tends to hide any really useful info in their supplementary
proprietary streams.

Steve

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