[mythtvnz] EPG title processing

[Steven Ellis]

On Wed, July 30, 2008 11:29 pm, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:21:57 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>It's been bugging me for a while now and I'm thinking of adding a regex
>>to the title processing that we do to catch "^All New (.*)" and replace
>>it with $1 i.e.
>>
>>"All New Simpsons" -> "Simpsons"
>>
>>I'm posting here as this has the possibility of breaking people's
>>scheduled recordings (if they use the epg.pvr.geek.nz feed).
>>
>>Any comments please post here.
>>
>>On a related note, I added a processor to catch the HD flag that Sky
>>have been putting in their data for the last while. Of course this won't
>>mean much if you're not receiving it in HD but I thought it may be of
>>use to some.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>hads
>
> We need to lobby the government to get them to legislate for proper
> EPG on all digital services.  With a goodly fine for each idiocy like
> "All new".  Say one day without advertising for each offence, or at
> least $20,000.
>
> Proper EPG should include series/episode numbers if at all possible.

I had a chance to speak with some of the TVNZ team who produce the EPG
data a couple of weeks ago, and they are far from happy about the quality
of information they are provided with.

Once we start to see "office" PVR solutions I expect the quality will need
to improve, but at the moment they need to define a standard way to drive
a PVR off MHEG-5 data.

Steve

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