[vdr] Re: What's BBCi and is it possible to receive it with vdr?

[Dominic Morris <dom@suborbital.org.uk>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Luca Olivetti wrote:

> Gavin Hamill wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 07:27:08PM +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > 
> >>I hope that someone someday will reverse engineer it (as they did for 
> >>the media highway epg), but for the moment bleb.org will do ;-)
> > 
> > 
> > Search the linux-dvb or vdr mailing lists... I definately remember 
> > someone mentioning they had worked out the format Sky send the EPG in, 
> > and it was unencrypted...
> 
> I found the thread :-(
> 
> http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/vdr/2003/05-2003/msg00547.html

There's a zip file going around the place, search for skyepg_algo.zip that 
contains details of the encoding. Anybody fancy writing a plugin? - I've 
still not got a feed so I can't do it myself. I'm guessing "anywhere" 
doesn't really mean anywhere.

cheers,

d.