[mythtv] [PATCH] More improvments to guide fixup

Torbjörn Jansson torbjorn.jansson at mbox200.swipnet.se
Sun Feb 20 14:54:56 UTC 2005


mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org <> scribbled on Saturday, February 19,
2005 6:43 PM: 
> mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org <> scribbled on Saturday, February 19,
> 2005 1:12 PM:
>> Torbjörn Jansson skrev:
>>> * Adds new members in class Event so fixup functions can insert
>>> original air date and credits (actors, director(s) and so on)
>> 
>> There is a special format in the "extended event descriptor"
>> for actors
>> and stuff, but currently we're not parsing it but just dumping it all
>> into the description string. Do you think this is what you
>> have?
> 
> Maybe it is, the actor/director stuff is easy to read, as if
> it was inserted
> in the description to be easily parsable.
> It's lists separated by 2 or more spaces in a row.
> 
>> In that
>> case it would be better if you could do that parsing directly in
>> ProcessExtendedEventDescriptor instead.

No, that's not what i'm getting.
I just ran a dvbsnoop and length_of_items in the extended event descriptor
is always zero.

It looks like the actor/directory stuff i currently parse is only present on
ppv channels, so maybe it's not that usefull.



More information about the mythtv-dev mailing list