[vdr] Re: Feature Request: Option to allow transmittedNOW/NEXT to override that stored in EPG

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>]

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 01:36, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Michal Dobrzynski wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been using a TV website scrapping script to generate XMLTV program
> > guides of variable quality (and almost always with lesser information
> > than the transmitted now/next info) and then uploading them to VDR via
> > SVRDP.
> > 
> > Since the info from the transmitted NOW/NEXT EPG seems much more
> > suitable for STB use than the XMLTV data when it's available I would
> > love for there to be an option for the transmitted EPG data to always
> > override EPG values for at least the NOW/NEXT programs (which are the
> > only ones transmitted anyway). This would allow me to use the XMLTV
> > data for browsing schedules into the future and setting timers AND give
> > me the "better" NOW/NEXT data.
> 
> You can achieve this by giving your EPG records a non-zero "table id"
> (see man 5 vdr), for instance 50 (hex).

This is great news for me!  I will try this out with my own scripts.

One note - I originally read the man page and did not realize that this
would happen.  I even tried to read the source (but quickly got lost in
eit.c and gave up.)

I guess I wanted to know when the epg would get overwritten - just for
overlapping events, or does it work on ids?  If ids - I would have to
make sure my ids were the same as those broadcast.  I guess I will find
out when I try!

> 
> Klaus
> 



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