EPG update using the DVB stream and some other EPG issues

[sub]

Great. Good to hear its working for you.

[akiller]

If you're game, I'd be interested to know how well it does with an 'empty EPG' followed by a 'update EPG'.

I've just installed those patches, ran it with 'complete epg reload' (I didn't want to lose some recordings I'd set-up) but I assume that's pretty much the same?

Anyway, it appears to have loaded all EPG information with no gaps.



Thanks

[BillM]

"Empty EPG" followed by "update EPG" with Harvest time set to 60 gave really excellent results, almost complete for the next 7 days and the best I've seen since I first switched to gbpvr.

The only significant gap is for BBC1 where there's no data for 6am to midnight on Sunday, but I've had this gap for the last few days.

The following stations are either blank or gappy from Tuesday onwards :-Channel 5, 5Life, 5 US, and the BBC radio stations. This is just for completeness really, as I really don't use these much and expect they'll fill over the weekend.

There are no errors reported in the config log.

Still no side effects to report, so thanks again for a significant improvement.

[sub]

Awesome. Its sounding pretty positive them.

The following stations are either blank or gappy from Tuesday onwards :-Channel 5, 5Life, 5 US, and the BBC radio stations.

You'll probably find that is all they're transmitting at this stage.

[sub]

akiller, thanks for the transport stream file, it proved very useful. It the UK they're using a trick to squeeze more data in, which is not used here in New Zealand. It took me a while to work out what it was doing, but we got there in the end.

[akiller]

akiller, thanks for the transport stream file, it proved very useful. It the UK they're using a trick to squeeze more data in, which is not used here in New Zealand. It took me a while to work out what it was doing, but we got there in the end.

np. It always used to work fine with the older versions, was that just luck? If you need any more at any point let me know.

[daneo]

Hi Till & Sub,

I noticed that the entries get concatenated as well, I think that Sub's got maybe a 255-char entry allocated for the long description and everything else ignored. I would like to analyse the DVB-T data a bit better and see what is sent -- as there is not only the Title, genre, and long description, but also a short subtitle I think as well.

It would be nice to have the display in the web UI configurable (it is thru HTML hacking, but tickboxes are always nicer) on what is displayed.

[sub]

np. It always used to work fine with the older versions, was that just luck? If you need any more at any point let me know.

Yeah, it was mostly luck. There was some optimisations that went in recently, which made it worse though, by not reprocessing packets that had been already processed in the same run (which may have helped some of the missing stuff to picked up again).

[sub]

I noticed that the entries get concatenated as well, I think that Sub's got maybe a 255-char entry allocated for the long description and everything else ignored. I would like to analyse the DVB-T data a bit better and see what is sent -- as there is not only the Title, genre, and long description, but also a short subtitle I think as well.

With DVB, there is always title. There is also usually either a 'short description' or 'extended description' descriptor. Currently it only uses the first part of an extended description, so you're probably seeing this with a multipart extended description.

There is no subtitle descriptor, but there provision for name/value pairs that the broadcaster can use for misc other info, but this info is not often used. I've only ever seen it used in a German transport stream, so not common. It would used to do stuff like ("Actor", "Jennifer Aniston...") or ("Director", "Peter Jackson"). This is sort of adhoc data, with no defined purpose - just a generic string name to string value. GB-PVR doesnt do anything with this data.

[akiller]

Maybe I spoke too spoon. The recording service seems to be crashing randomly when recording.

The logs don't seem to give much information either, it may be completely unrelated but just incase.


Unhandled exception at 0x069234c8 in GBPVRRecordingService.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x08963000.