[mythtvnz] FreeView MHEG-5 EPG in action

[Steven Ellis]

On Sat, March 3, 2007 6:04 pm, Steve Hodge wrote:
> On 3/3/07, Steven Ellis <steven@openmedia.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>> Been an interesting couple of weeks getting this to work.
>>
>> Have a look at http://www.mythtv.co.nz for the latest information.
>>
>
> Good stuff.

Feeling rather pleased with myself :). Big thanks to David for his patche=
s
as well.

> Do you know anything about TVNZ's plans re EPG data? Are they going to
> continue to broadcast the data in the standard DVB way as well? If not,
> will it be possible to extract the EPG data from the MHEG5 stream?

Nothing confirmed, but there are some rumours that they will only have
Now/Next in the EIT data. It is a way to force equipment suppliers to
support their MHEG-5 based EPG.

The data appears to be quite easy to parse. I was able to get a dump of i=
t
using the code from http://redbutton.sf.net

Steve

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