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

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Malcolm Caldwell wrote:
> 
> 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!

VDR first searches for an event with the proper ID, and if it doesn't
find one, it looks for one with the same start time.

Klaus


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