[mythtv] [patch] DVB EIT fixes

Simon Kenyon simon at koala.ie
Thu Jan 27 04:04:38 EST 2005


On Thursday 27 January 2005 00:24, Taylor Jacob wrote:
> Quoting Anders Hanson <anders.hanson at speedo.nu>:
> > With this patch applied and with the following small fix I was able to
> > get the EIT from the Swedish ComHem DVB-C network!
> > It seems that ComHem is sending EIT in table 0x4e and 0x4f.
> >
> > Isn't the EIT information suppost to be inserted into the program table
> > or is that code not yet inplace?
>
> The 0x4E and 0x4F tables contain current/next events only.  With this it is
> impossible to schedule since you will only know what will be on next.. I
> intentionally ignored these tables..  If you have 0x50-0x6F tables these
> contain the current and future events so only they are handled.  The
> current/next may look good in the EPG on myth but they really don't help in
> using at as PVR..
but wouldn't this be better than nothing?
--
simon


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