[mythtvnz] DVB-T MHEG EPG

[Steven Ellis]

On Thu, April 29, 2010 4:57 pm, Steven Ellis wrote:
>
> On Thu, April 29, 2010 3:51 pm, Solor Vox wrote:
>> A bit overkill for a sourceforge project, but maybe others can
>> contribute and improve it.  I did some searching around and found a
>> few people who said it couldn't be done.  So by all means, feel free
>> to send me suggestions and changes.   It only took a few hours to
>> knock out so there has to be room for improvement.
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mheg2xmltv/
>>
>> I'm considering adding channel id replacement code so it can be
>> swapped in for other grabbers without much fuss.  Right now all the
>> cid are what is transmitted in the MHEG data such as
>> crid://tvnz.co.nz.  This could be changed to tvnz1.freeviewnz.tv so it
>> matches other xmltv cid.
>>
>> I've not looked at other grabber code, but there isn't much more data
>> in the MHEG stream.  So any other information, such as episode
>> numbers, categories, and cast/crew would have to be supplementary
>> applied to the xml file.
>
> Nice start. Thanks for the work.
>
> One initial problem is using the cid's the data for TV One and TV 2 are
> mapped to the same channel.
>
> The list of unique cids is
>
> crid://basefm.co.nz
> crid://c42.co.nz
> crid://c4tv.co.nz
> crid://chinesetv8.co.nz
> crid://kordiasolutions.com
> crid://maoritelevision.com
> crid://parliament.nz
> crid://primetv.co.nz
> crid://radionzconcert.co.nz
> crid://radionznational.co.nz
> crid://tv3.co.nz
> crid://tv3plus1.co.nz
> crid://tvcentral.co.nz
> crid://tvnz.co.nz
>
> You would probably be better creating a map based on the SID, eg
>
> 1200 = tvone
> 1201 = tv2
>

Another thought. 3rd field in the file is the channel name. You just need
an array from channel name -> xmltv id.

You could also use this array to output the start data mapping channel id
to channel name.


Steve

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