EPG stuff (was Re: [mythtvnz] Re: DVB issues)

[Hadley Rich]

On Thursday 28 September 2006 16:54, Steven Ellis wrote:
> >> > I have been messing about with tv_grab_dvb and have a version that
> >> > gets the categories in Sky's data. But they use non-standard
> >> > categories and also seem to be putting some ratings advisory flags in
> >> > there (e.g. contains violence, language, etc). Sky themselves don't
> >> > seem to use the categories in their decoders (at least I haven't found
> >> > it in my non-MySky decoder), and their website only uses the top level
> >> > categories. So I've got nothing to compare against. When I get this
> >> > stuff working nicely post it to the list.
> >>
> >> When you've got it in a functional state, post a URL or flick me a copy,
> >> and I'll switch hairy.geek.nz's EPG feed to it.
> >
> > I've finally got around to getting something working reasonably well -
> > I've modified tv_grab_dvb to decode the content categories using a
> > text map file. I've even had a quick go at figuring out Sky's
> > non-standard categories. I'll email you a copy directly. If anyone
> > else is interested let me know.
>
> I'm very interested :) It will be interesting to see how well this works
> on the DVB-T network once they actually turn on the EIT support.

As an aside, I was at a Linksys product meeting today and the announced a PVR 
with basic time shifting etc.

The interesting thing (to me) was that it does EPG, I asked the Linksys guy 
where it's getting it's guide data from and they apparently have contracted 
an external company to compile EPG data for them.

hads

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