[mythtvnz] MHEG fix for freeview HD

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
> [re-ordered top posting]
>
>>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 10:20 am, Aaron Drysdale wrote:
>>> > Looks cool. Any reason why I would want to use the Freeview MHEG-5
>>> EPG,
>>> > over the Mythtv EPG?  I assume that the information present is the
>>> same
>>> > data available over EIT?
>>> >
>>>
>>> On freeview|HD the EIT information only provides now/next.
>>>
>>> Plus you can't program via the MHEG-5 EPG (yet)
>>>
>> If I understand all this correctly and to summarise, on Freeview|HD there
>> is
>> not a full EPG data stream to populate our "week ahead" of programme guide
>> in Mythtv? On Satellite Freeview, however, there is full information. I
>> currently have only the satellite dish going and have viewed the MHEG data
>> on that. (though not at the moment apparently)
>> If I set up a machine with mixed Satellite and HD sources, can I use the
>> EIT
>> off the dish for all program guide data?
>>
>> Regards
>> Barry
>
> Three sources of on-air data:
>
> EPG - on the Satellite broadcasts - both Sky and Freeview flavours are
> available so Prime info is available. Mythtv doesn't process this
> directly, epgsnoop (using the dvbsnoop program) and mythfilldatabase (with
> the xmltv grabber) massage this into a useful format. There are listing
> available on the net that are derived from this data source.
>
> EIT - Specific to the channel being viewed and as I understand it, on both
> Satellite and terrestrial but the latter has only now and next programs.
>
> MHEG-5 - interactive information that also happens to have scheduling
> information. Designed to be human rather than machine readable and
> displayed directly to the user by the frontend at present with no backend
> interaction to get the scheduling info from it.

I take it that while the MHEG-5 is useful to browse, it can't be used
within myth to schedule in the same way that the EPG can?