[mythtv] Is anybody looking at EITFixUp (eitfixup.cpp)

Chris Hamilton chamilton at cs.dal.ca
Wed Jul 23 11:41:34 UTC 2008


> The Australian DVB-T channel's EIT data needs some hacking to be useful 
> for MythTV's EPG so I was hunting around for a way to do this when I 
> found eitfixup.cpp.  To be blunt, EITFixUp is a horrible bunch of hard 
> coded hacks to get around very specific EIT problems.  It is extremely 
> case specific with lot's of duplicated code and general nastiness.
> 
> I'm thinking of replacing it with a more generic, table driven system.  
> Is/has anybody else looked at this?
> 
>  From about an hour's investigation, I think I can replace more than 90% 
> of the current EITFixUp code with fairly generic rules. The resulting 
> rules will only be a bit easier to create than writing C++ but they will 
> be runtime modifiable and far easier to test.
> 
> My initial thought is to put in the new system beside the existing 
> code.  This will make the transition easy and, once the new system is 
> stable and in production, I can port the existing EITFixUp code over to 
> it and create any special cases which may be required.
> 
> Any comments?

I personally think this is a *much* more desirable approach.  I
contributed a small bit of code to the EITFixup for Bell ExpressVu, and
it's definitely an ugly hackish piece of work.  Depending on the
flexibility of these runtime modifiable rules, it also allows people to
personalize their schedules quite easily.

Do you have some concrete examples of how you envision it working?

Cheers,

Chris


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