Re: [vdr] eepg plugin with UK freeview (not freesat!) EPG
I too have seen occasional EPG data on other channels become garbled. Is it possible that 'other transport stream' EIT data when received on the HD channel transport stream, is sometimes Huffman compressed? This of course is regardless whether the Eepg plugin is present or not. --- On Sat, 27/8/11, Laz l...@club-burniston.co.uk wrote: From: Laz l...@club-burniston.co.uk Subject: Re: [vdr] eepg plugin with UK freeview (not freesat!) EPG To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Saturday, 27 August, 2011, 10:46 On Saturday 27 August 2011 01:18:31 Tony Houghton wrote: On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:42:38 +0100 Laz l...@club-burniston.co.uk wrote: I thought it had been doing this scrambling when I tried it earlier in the week but have now proved it to myself. Time to start adding some more printfs... The first byte of encoded strings should be 0x1f, followed by 1 or 2 indicating which table should be used (one is optimised for titles, the other for descriptions). Normal strings either start with a printable character for the default character set or a code 0x20 indicating the character set. I use eepg too, but I haven't noticed it scrambling anything (this is probably the first time I've looked at QVC's schedule though ;)). Over the evening, it scrambled more and more channels! :-s Thanks for the pointer to 0x1f! Now I know where to look. (I assume that eepg only decodes EPG that comes in over the air and doesn't touch any EPG alread stored.) Laz ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] eepg plugin with UK freeview (not freesat!) EPG
Slightly off topic but I recently uninstalled the EEPG plugin and reverted back to pure XMLTV data as I was finding it introduced too much instability into my VDR setup. With the plugin I would have problems with my DVB-S2 card causing VDR to restart with the 'broken stream' error code every week or so. Since removing the EEPG plugin I've returned to having flawless VDR uptime and stability again. On 24 October 2011 12:50, Stuart Morris stuart_mor...@talk21.com wrote: I too have seen occasional EPG data on other channels become garbled. Is it possible that 'other transport stream' EIT data when received on the HD channel transport stream, is sometimes Huffman compressed? This of course is regardless whether the Eepg plugin is present or not. --- On Sat, 27/8/11, Laz l...@club-burniston.co.uk wrote: From: Laz l...@club-burniston.co.uk Subject: Re: [vdr] eepg plugin with UK freeview (not freesat!) EPG To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Saturday, 27 August, 2011, 10:46 On Saturday 27 August 2011 01:18:31 Tony Houghton wrote: On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:42:38 +0100 Laz l...@club-burniston.co.uk wrote: I thought it had been doing this scrambling when I tried it earlier in the week but have now proved it to myself. Time to start adding some more printfs... The first byte of encoded strings should be 0x1f, followed by 1 or 2 indicating which table should be used (one is optimised for titles, the other for descriptions). Normal strings either start with a printable character for the default character set or a code 0x20 indicating the character set. I use eepg too, but I haven't noticed it scrambling anything (this is probably the first time I've looked at QVC's schedule though ;)). Over the evening, it scrambled more and more channels! :-s Thanks for the pointer to 0x1f! Now I know where to look. (I assume that eepg only decodes EPG that comes in over the air and doesn't touch any EPG alread stored.) Laz ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] eepg plugin with UK freeview (not freesat!) EPG
On Thursday 25 Aug 2011, Mario Schulz wrote: Am 21.08.2011 23:09, schrieb Laz: Does anyone know whether the eepg plugin should just work with the Huffman encoded EPG broadcast on Freeview (DVB-T) HD channels in the UK? (Someone mentioned it on here a week or so back.) Yes, it does (next DW already programmed). In a recent version Freesat huffman decoding has been destroyed, in the most recent version this should have already been fixes. Hmmm...When I tried it, it didn't seem to touch any of the EPG received from the HD channels, so it remained unreadable. I'll give it another go this weekend, and I'll enable a few more debug messages... Cheers, Laz ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] eepg plugin with UK freeview (not freesat!) EPG
Am 21.08.2011 23:09, schrieb Laz: Does anyone know whether the eepg plugin should just work with the Huffman encoded EPG broadcast on Freeview (DVB-T) HD channels in the UK? (Someone mentioned it on here a week or so back.) Yes, it does (next DW already programmed). In a recent version Freesat huffman decoding has been destroyed, in the most recent version this should have already been fixes. - M. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
