[mythtvnz] mythtvnz Digest, Vol 12, Issue 48

[Craig Mckenna]

Hi Graeme,

The DVB-T stream only has the NowNext information, no standard EIT based 
EPG, (to save bandwidth) the DVB-T EPG is handled by their MHEG5 middleware.




Graeme Woollett wrote:
> Ross and Jemima wrote:
>    
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Thanks for the welcome and advice.  Funny story really.  I had used up
>> my broadband allowance downloading everything to install my system so I
>> hadn't tried the following until after I posted the other day.  I added
>> the suggested repository and left the system to download the updates
>> (18MB at dialup speed) and when I got back later it scanned and found
>> all the channels!  Yay.  And Kenneth you're right, everything does work
>> out of the box pretty much (I did turn on the LNA already).  Only thing
>> now is it seems there is only one days worth of EPG being broadcast.
>> I'm used to the DVB-S where I had 8 days worth and it was great because
>> you can set all your fav shows to be recorded.  Is there a way to fix
>> this (download data from elsewhere)?
>>
>> Also if anyone wants any feedback on anything let me know.  My server
>> doesn't have a graphics card so I may not get good HD playback on the
>> server itself but the idea was to watch it elsewhere so hopefully there
>> won't be a problem streaming video.
>>
>> Ross
>>
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> Somebody correct me if I'm wrong...
> For the DVB-T EPG feed Freeview in their wisdom decided to only include
> a time windowed EPG feed, so you only get an hour or two at a time.
> I fixed this by using tv_grab_nz to pull the xml EPG for the Freeview
> channels from the internet, and mythfilldatabase to populate mythtv with
> 7 days of data.
> If you have DVB-S as well as T, then you could use epgsnoop to massage
> the EIT from the satellite.
>
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