[mythtvnz] DVB-T MHEG EPG

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:45:27 +1200, you wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Steven Ellis <steven at openmedia.co.nz>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Sorry. freeview NZ, and also freeview in the UK, are using TV Anytime to
>> >> provide series link capability. The data is in the EIT and MHEG streams.
>> >
>> > Do you have any detail on the implementation? I had a look on the website
>> > but ran into a bunch of broken links.
>>
>> you need to read the Important Notice!
>>
>> <quote>Depending on the settings of your firewall or proxy server, you
>> might experience problems accessing the documents on the FTP site of
>> the TV-Anytime Forum using the direct links provided on this website.
>> In some cases, the configuration of your browser may also prevent you
>> from opening the files.
>>
>
>Sigh. My browser's fine. The problem would be the configuration of their
>webserver.

No, it is not a web server.  It is an FTP server, and it is not
misconfigured.  What you are up against here is the good old
active/passive FTP problem.  FTP servers do either active or passive
FTP protocol, or preferably both.  For some reason, web browsers do
not do active FTP.  Hence the need to use a real FTP client program
that will detect  active or passive and switch as necessary when the
FTP server only does one protocol.  There are problems with firewalls
with passive FTP also - your own firewall can make it fail to work
unless it actively looks into the packets to see if they are passive
FTP ones and opens the appropriate ports automatically.  For this
exact reason, I have my own FTP server set to only do active FTP - it
sends back a "502 Command not implemented" error response if passive
FTP is attempted, which should cause the FTP client to switch to
active FTP.  But web browsers seem to ignore errors like that and keep
trying to use passive FTP.

>
>> If you do encouter problems, try accessing the documents on the FTP
>> server of the TV-Anytime Forum through either of the following links:
>>
>>    * ftp://tva:tva@ftp.bbc.co.uk
>>    * ftp://tva:tva@ftp.bbc.co.uk/pub/
>>
>> In case both of the above links won't work, you have to log on to the
>> FTP site using a FTP client (such as WSftp, CuteFTP, etc.) with
>> username 'tva' and password 'tva'.</quote>
>>
>> But even then finding anything useful is hard work!
>>
>
>Hmm, do I trust a bunch of people who can't even configure a webserver
>correctly to come up with a coherent technical standard?
>
>Cheers,
>Steve