[mythtvnz] Free to Air BBC World on TV One - best way to 'inject'
bbc.co.uk guide data after Freeview EPG update?
Matt Poff
mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:49:58 +1200
Steve Hodge wrote:
> On 7/2/07, *Matt Poff* <matt.poff@headfirst.co.nz
> <mailto:matt.poff@headfirst.co.nz>> wrote:
>
> I'm pulling down the Freeview programming guide but it doesn't contain
> distinguish individual programming info for the late night BBC World
> programming on TV One. Ideally I'd like to post-process the data
> after
> an electronic update to pull an XML feed from bbc.co.uk
> <http://bbc.co.uk> and inject this.
>
>
> I haven't looked at it, but is it the same as BBC World on Sky? If so
> you could grab the data for the relevant time period from Sky's EIT data.
Not sure either as I don't have Sky. Can I pick up Sky's EIT without a
decoder?
>
> Problem is I'm not aware of any hooks in myth which would enable this,
> or even whether the BBC transmission is live-to-air or timeshifted.
>
>
> mythfilldatabase. You don't have to use Myth to grab the EIT data.
>
Right so have some external bash script or similar on a cron job
grabbing data from the various sources and writing to the database? I
was hoping to avoid over-riding the EIT gathering Myth does, just
trigger a post-process operation which 'fills in the gaps' for the Beeb
stuff.