New XMLTVID stuff (was Re: [mythtvnz] Warning- XMLTV ID class - Sky Movie Greats and TV One)

[Chris Manning]

Is there any progress on this? It would be good to be able to have movie 
greats etc available. I've noticed that there is a listings-new.xml.gz 
file on the server that has the right stuff in it. Is this usable currently?

Chris Manning

Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:41:29 Steven Ellis wrote:
>> Steve Hodge wrote:
>>> I guess it's time to switch to more descriptive ids as Hads proposed
>>> last week.
>> Kinda looking like a really good idea.
> 
> This is the proposed XMLTVID scheme that I've come up with so far;
> 
> http://nice.net.nz/epg/channels.conf.test
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts? Additions?
> 
> I'm incorporating the new XMLTVID stuff into the new version of epgsnoop 
> (maybe this will hurry me up :)
> 
> I'm sure I can whip up a script to convert from the old id's to new as well.
> 
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:59:38 Steven Ellis wrote:
>> This would be good, except I'd suggest
>>
>> 1031.dvb.guide -> tv1.sky.co.nz
>> 1035.dvb.guide -> tv1.freeview.tv
>>
>> There are some noticable EPG differences at present, and it allows for the
>> selection of a preferred feed.
> 
> Steve; regarding this, I'm not sure. The actual video of the different feeds 
> is the same so I think the XMLTVID should be tv1.co.nz. If people want to use 
> the EPG data off the freeview transponder rather than the Sky one then they 
> can grab it themselves with epgsnoop. If there's major demand then a data 
> file from the freeview source could be arranged to be downloadable.
> 
> hads
>