[mythtvnz] Anyone know anything about crid's in New Zealand

[ajp at cantabrian.co.nz]

>I recall wondering what crid was all about a few years ago and doing some
research. I concluded it was not very useful.

>Having just looked it up again (as a result of your post) I read this in
the RFC

>"The policy of assignment of CRID values lies with the CRID author
associated with the authority field. It is likely that there will be a
number of diverse (and possibly changing) authoring policies as required by
various organisations as they address their respective audiences."

>leads me to believe that the crid info is defined by each provider - ie TV3
will probably use a different schema than TV1 and it's potential is
therefore minimal in the extreme.

>Of course I may have that wrong, interested to know what your research has
revealed.

Bottom posting is counter to using M$ Outlook, but I will try to remember
:-)

I could not find anything other than the type of thing you found. My sense
is that the crid is valid in that it is unique and means something to
TVNZ/TV3 or whomever. It's just a shame it can't be looked up. It is quite
good though for testing if you have already recorded something - I do think
they keep the same crid if they rebroadcast, well at least I hope they do
:-)

It's a same really because quite a few TV series don't have the episode name
anywhere, not within the program nor in the guide. Things like SGU for
example.

Oh yes I am on satellite so that's where the EPG comes from.

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