[vdr] Re: New epg source

[Morfsta <morfsta@irmplc.com>]

The software does not need to re-tune the dvb-t card as it is possible to
insert epg information in bulk for all channels (using SVDRP which runs on
TCP port 2001), based on info from channels.conf. Once this has happened,
epg.data is populated with the information by the running instance of VDR.
VDR does not need to be restarted. It is also possible to allow VDR to
overwrite the EPG information from xmltv with the information received
from the DVB EPG information (in the UK this unfortunately is only "now"
and "next" hence the need for such a utility)

I have placed my script xmltv2vdr in the crontab file to run every night 
to re-populate the EPG based on potential changes and to grab the next 
day. So I am always 4 days ahead (xmltv only does 4 days of UK information 
for some reason).

I will release the script this weekend (credits need to be made to the
authors of the sky plugin and instructions on how to get it working for UK
freeview written). How would I go about getting the script included with
latest versions of VDR?

Cheers,

Morf 

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Steven Toth wrote:

> The software will need to re-tune the dvb-s card to a particular 
> transponder to grab the epg information for 7 days. This COULD be done 
> at startup. It would also be useful to be able to interact with the epg 
> to ensure that late epg changes from the broadcaster are delivered into VDR.
> 
> Also, after a number of running days, the EPG data will start to run 
> out, VDR will need to re-tune to the epg transponder and grab the latest 
> data.
> 
> Does any other VDR epg plugin do this kind of thing?
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> Morfsta wrote:
> > I have written an xmltv -> VDR script (which I will post onto the list
> > when I get it tidied up properly) that works fine in the UK. There is a
> > means to get epg information into VDR via the listener on TCP port 2001
> > (look at the sky perl script on how to do this and do a "man 5 vdr")...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > morf
> > 
> > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Steven Toth wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I've been working on a new source for UK tv listings. At some point I'll 
> >>need to start interfacing with the VDR epg interfaces/structures. I 
> >>kinda hoped vdr might expose an API of some description.
> >>
> >>Can anyone point me at a good interfacing document or VDR interfacing howto?
> >>
> >>Many thanks,
> >>
> >>Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



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