Freeview EPG and logical channel numbers

[funkybro_uk]

Which EPG do people use for UK Freeview? I find the RadioTimes/XMLTV plugin quite handy. However, I'm looking into writing an app which will extract the freeview over-the-air EPG and save it as an XML file for GBPVR to load. This would populate the EPG for the radio channels; I would really value being able to set one-touch radio recordings.

An additional feature I had in mind for this was, for the channels for which EPG data is carried by the Radio Times, being able to select which source to use for that channel.

Also, each freeview channel has it's own Logical channel number. Is it possible for an external application to alter the GBPVR channel number mappings (i.e. change the corresponding settings file)? Would be much nicer to have each channel automatically map to its Freeview LCN number, rather than the user having to set each one up manually.

Was rather disappointed to find out that the directshow book I just bought (Programming Directshow For Digital Video, Television And Dvd - M. Pesce) contains one whole paragraph about digital TV. It says "go read the SDK documentation" :-(

Anyone got any ideas/comments about ways to increase GBPVR's usefulness with Freeview?

[herbs]

Use Alan birtles http://www.birtles.org.uk/xmltv/xmltvrt_2.17W.exe and http://www.de-bugger.com/Misc/DGUK.htm to grab the radio listings from bleb you can use the program to stitch them together.

[birty]

please dont link directly to the grabber download as the file name changes frequently as new versions are released, link to http://www.birtles.org.uk/xmltv/ instead