[mythtv] DVD-T UK xmltv ids
John Pullan
john.pullan at gmail.com
Sat May 28 19:48:41 UTC 2005
On 28/05/05, Ed W <lists at wildgooses.com> wrote:
>
> >>slight issue, BBC1 appears to be service 4168 accross the country :/
> >>
> >>So I guess we'd have mapping tables stored in share/mythtv ? While
> >>we're at it we could also maybe put icon information in as well ?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >It depends what region you are in as to what the service id is. My lineup has
> >a few differences from those listed, with 4171 being BBC1 (South).
> >
> >
>
> Hmm, that's a bugger. I had expected them to be the same everywhere...
> My idea would have to be based on some heuristic to match it then...
> Channel name or something...
>
I'd actually hoped that that they would have been unique for a given
area. But it looks like they're maybe some duplication. Ian appears to
have a different service id for bbc south but you and I have the same.
(I'm looking at the Winterhill transmitter in lancs) Guess if we did
do something along these lines the writer would get to choose which
wins :)
> Nice idea though, especially the channel icons.
>
> Any ideas?
>
Taylor did come up with a scheme for downloading icons from the web
which would have worked quite well. He never got around to
implementing it though.
--
John
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