[vdr] Re: Outdated EPG-Box

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

Jon Burgess wrote:
> 
> I have seen a different inconsistency between the Now/Next information
> and the schedule data. I examined the EPG data and found a program
> listed as lasting 24.5 hours (it should have been 0.5 hours). This event
> was stuck in the EPG as running "now" since VDR still believed it was
> still running, even though the schedule also had other programs listed
> after this event.
> 
> C T-9018-8197-8261 ITV 1;ITV
> E 14723 1093926600 88200 4E
> T ITV Early Morning News
> S Main national & international news.
> e
> 
> As far as I can tell the only way this event could have got into the EPG
> data is a bug in the transmitted schedule data. The program is no longer
> listed in the EIT being broadcast at the moment so I can't confirm this
> for certain.
> 
> I searched through my 7 day EPG and didn't find any other occurances of
> this problem. The longest other program I found in the schedule data was
> I think 19.5 hours long which covered the time between shutdown and
> restart of a channel with a limited broadcast schedule.
> 
> For reference I placed a compressed copy of my current complete epg.data at
>    http://www.jburgess.uklinux.net/epg-bad-itv.data.bz2 (269kB)

I'll see to it that outdated EPG entries will be recognized and
deleted. It's just that I'm currently a little "handicapped" since
my PC at home is broken and I won't get it back from repair before
next moday...

Klaus