[mythtvnz] MHEG fix for freeview HD

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Aaron Whitehouse <lists at whitehouse.org.nz>
> wrote:
>>
>> Steven Ellis wrote:
>>
>> > I have the details of how series link works on myfreeview|HD and it
>> > would require a number of extensions to the existing MHEG stack.
>>
>> Interesting. Presumably people would rather use series link through the
>> existing scheduling interfaces, rather than the F12 interface, so
>> something may need to change there anyway. I guess that means that it is
>> different to the UK BBC's "series link", which (apparently) is already
>> in MythTV.
>
> I doubt there will ever be integration between the MHEG proram guide and
> MythTV scheduling (i.e. being able to schedule things from the MHEG program
> guide). As you say, people would rather use the Myth interface so I think
> we're all just talking about getting whatever MHEG-only data there is into
> Myth. I'm not exactly sure what "series link" means in terms of data
> (hopefully Steven Eillis will clarify/correct me where required), but I
> guess it just means an id number against each program that represents the
> "series". It could give us some certainty in the face of title screwups, but
> then if we don't trust Freeview to get the title right in the data then I'm
> not sure we can trust them to get the series id right either. How it's used
> could affect it's value as well, for example is it only for a particular
> season or for all seasons of a particular show? If it's specific to a season
> then it's pretty useless IMHO.

Then again some people only want the current season, not every rerun!