Thorsten Pferdekämper wrote: > My intention so far was only to collect the programs available and filter the > huge list of DVB services so I only need to check sensible ones > myself. "Sensible" for my case means only those with video stream, which are > running, not scrambled etc.
OK, but maybe you have a working CAM. For Freevo 2.0 I want the tv code based on gstreamer and gstreamer has CAM support. > My idea for the EPG was using the program information which comes with the > DVB > transmission itself (EIT data or something like that). I have already > succeeded to create some XMLTV from that, but I have not yet written a script > for a full grab. http://www.darkskiez.co.uk/index.php?page=tv_grab_dvb But the data sucks. You get far more details running xmltv. >> 1. Create a channels.conf with the DVB channel names > ...where I have found out that these are not unique. In my channels.conf, > some > of them appear twice with different data. There are service numbers and stuff > like that which seem to be more reliable. So we use service numbers or a list of possible names. E.g. both 'Das Erste' and 'Das Erste RB' match on ard.de. >> 2. A script should now scan the DVB names to get a guess where the DVB >> listing comes from (Germany, UK, US, etc). > Thinking DVB-T, this makes sense. With DVB-S it's a bit different... My > Astra 19.2E list contains Germany, UK, France, Luxemburg, Switzerland, > Austria,... Right, that makes it more difficult and a script like yours may be needed. In that case we need a list of lanuages the user can understand. >> 3. Now the script uses dvbnames_Country to find a match for the >> names and gives you a list of possible XMLTV grabber for your DVB >> listing. > Maybe it would be better just having a match from the name (or an other key) > the the grabber name (and the name of the grabber itself). I do not really > like the idea to have this by country. But maybe the same name is a different channel in a different country? IIRC there are many BBC channels around the world, can we seperate them? >> 4. The script also configures the grabber that you only get the >> channels in the EPG you have. >> >> This requires (besides someone writing that script) that we need the >> mapping for all DVB names to all possible XMLTV names and information >> how to configure it. > ...and maybe an information to help automatically skip those which only show > ads for sex hotlines. :) Dischi -- If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
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