[mythtv] Freesat (UK)

[Simeon Walker]

2008/5/12 Simon Kenyon <simon at koala.ie>:
>
> David Matthews wrote:
>  > John wrote:
>  >
>  >> Very Interested. Glad to see my evil plan of luring other people into
>  >> working on it was successful ;-)
>  >>
>  >> Could you post a diff of what you did to play around ? Like to see  it
>  >> for myself. My interest is in ending up with matching programme info for
>  >> my freeview and freesat sources, as at the moment I want to use the
>  >> programmeid/seriesID stuff to check for repeats, but there is no easy
>  >> way to share the freeview eit info over to the matching freesat
>  >> channels. If they end up effectively simulcasting so that freeview eit =
>  >> freesat eit, then all the issues of scheduling between sources
>  >> dissapear. :-)
>  >>
>  >
>  > Just at the moment the TV-Anytime CRIDs seem to be fictitious so it's
>  > not going to be very helpful.  However when the EPG comes live it looks
>  > as though it will do what you want.  I think it's very likely that the
>  > Freesat and Freeview EPGs will be close or identical since they're going
>  > to be derived from the same database.  There'll be a need for a patch to
>  > apply the UK EIT fixup to the Freesat EIT as well as Freeview but it
>  > makes sense to leave that until everything settles down.
>  >
>  > I'm including the diff below.  I hope it will be readable enough
>  > although you may need to correct for line breaks in the wrong place.
>  > Since this is only temporary it's not appropriate to create a ticket.
>  > If you already have schedule data from, e.g. Radio Times, you may not
>  > want to try this because it could well overwrite the data you have.  I
>  > think the information is on various BBC transponders. I use 10802750
>  > horizontal.
>  >
>  > I've also been testing some updates to the MHEG code to take account of
>  > the additional features that are used in the current Freesat interactive
>  > tests.  I thought I'd wait until the current release is out of the way
>  > before creating a ticket and also incorporate any changes that are
>  > needed once a fuller interactive service starts to appear.
>  >
>  > David.
>  >
>  > Index: libs/libmythtv/mpeg/dvbstreamdata.cpp
>  > ===================================================================
>  > --- libs/libmythtv/mpeg/dvbstreamdata.cpp       (revision 16387)
>  > +++ libs/libmythtv/mpeg/dvbstreamdata.cpp       (working copy)
>  >
>  [snip]
>
>  i added this and i can see a lot of shows now in the epg. can only test
>  from work, so all i can use is mythweb.
>  it doesn't appear to be adding any program info, just genre and duration.
>  is there an update?
>  --
>  simon
>
Apart from it being on a different PID I think the data is compressed.
Could that account for it? Have you seen the thread on the digitalspy
forums?
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=751053&page=4

Sim