NZ Freeview EPG via DVB-T - how far in advance?

[time_lord]

Ah, looks like (*cough*) MythTV uses http://redbutton.sourceforge.net/

[sub]

I look at that quite a while back, and it gave me a good understand of how the MHEG-5 stuff works.

The redbutton project is enough to view MHEG-5 applications, giving you screens like the screenshots here: http://www.freeviewnz.tv/whats_on_freeview/guide. It wouldnt give you listings that could be used from GB-PVR's TV Guide or scheduler.

[time_lord]

The redbutton project is enough to view MHEG-5 applications, giving you screens like the screenshots here: http://www.freeviewnz.tv/whats_on_freeview/guide. It wouldnt give you listings that could be used from GB-PVR's TV Guide or scheduler.

Right... but all the info is there in some form or another so I guess some wrapper code could be put around it to put together in a form more suitable for gbpvr. And this would have to be done on-demand, on the fly when needed by the tv guide or scheduler... is gbpvr capable of calling such a beast/plugin, or will it only use pre-loaded xml tv guide?

[backlashnz]

timeloard is this of any use to you?
http://www.reven.co.nz/xmlTVNZ/Default.aspx

[psycik]

Right... but all the info is there in some form or another so I guess some wrapper code could be put around it to put together in a form more suitable for gbpvr. And this would have to be done on-demand, on the fly when needed by the tv guide or scheduler... is gbpvr capable of calling such a beast/plugin, or will it only use pre-loaded xml tv guide?

What you would do timelord is to output an xmltv file somewhere on your system as a scheduled time, and then set your channel source to read that xml file.

I take subs dvbtoxml output and split it up for each channel source that i have, dvb-t dvb-s FTA etc.

So if you get something that can read mheg5 stream data then you'd dump out an xmltv style file just before your gbpvr epg update time, and then gbpvr would read that.

BTW I'm pretty close to having something that will download the freeview xml listings and putting out an xmltv file...with an identifier for if the program is listed as HD.

[time_lord]

timeloard is this of any use to you?
http://www.reven.co.nz/xmlTVNZ/Default.aspx

Hmmm, I thought I tried that in the early days and had troubles with it. And that even though it's 'donateware' (??) it was crippled unless you bought a full version? I may be wrong, my memory escapes me...

[time_lord]

BTW I'm pretty close to having something that will download the freeview xml listings and putting out an xmltv file...with an identifier for if the program is listed as HD.

Download via the 'net? Hmmm, that would be quicker than getting data from all the individual channel websites... are you going to make it available as a tool (or are you just doing it for personal use)?

[psycik]

Download via the 'net? Hmmm, that would be quicker than getting data from all the individual channel websites... are you going to make it available as a tool (or are you just doing it for personal use)?

If I was just doing it for personal use I can make it stupider, ie. less gui configurable.

I'm made it about as configurable as i think I want to, the actual bones have been done for a day, its the gui bit that takes all the time.

I'm just testing it now, it's does two functions, one is split up a large xml file (the output of the dvbtoxml file that sub creates) so that each channel source only has certain channels in it.

Second function is to grab each freeview channel xml file and combine then into one xmltv file.

There is also ability to rename channels (for me i have TV1 and TV1HD since I can't yet fully move to HD because of the popcorn.

PM me an email address if you want it.. it's kinda alpha-ish at the moment and I need to work on a few more docs for it's use.

[sub]

Hmmm, I thought I tried that in the early days and had troubles with it. And that even though it's 'donateware' (??) it was crippled unless you bought a full version? I may be wrong, my memory escapes me...

Its much easier to just set you capture source to use the xmltv epg source, and set the filename to "http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/epg/listings-freeview.xml.gz" and the app will take care of the rest (downloading, decompressing, parsing etc).

[psycik]

I'd agree with sub, the above is the easiest source. The only advantage mine will give you is I can get the "HD" flag in description. And have the ability to rename stuff. But the second criteria is probably only important to me.