[mythtv] Built in DVB epg support

John Pullan jmp at tarantella.com
Thu Jul 29 17:11:53 EDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 21:18 +0100, Charlie Brej wrote:
> John Pullan wrote:
> <snip>
> > The second strand of the idea, would be to update the channels by
> > visiting each channel and collecting the data for each one (I believe
> > vdr does this). It would need to do this when the master server was idle
> > (more accurately when the dvb tuners where idle) so some interaction
> > with the scheduler would be required.
> > 
> > Does this basically sound correct ?
> > (Coding schedule is of course dependent on how rainy it is :-)
> 
> (I am pretty sure) You don't need to change the channels to get the guide for 
> different channels.

That is true (at least here in the uk on dvb-t), but I was thinking that
for the case of a dvb-s systems, that one channel wouldn't be
broadcasting the epg data for all the other channels. (could be wrong
about that though)
-- 
John



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