[vdr] Disabling EPG update from air or shift it in time

[Alex Betis]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Klaus Schmidinger <
Klaus.Schmidinger at cadsoft.de> wrote:

> On 31.01.2009 06:13, Alex Betis wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Klaus Schmidinger
> > <Klaus.Schmidinger at cadsoft.de <mailto:Klaus.Schmidinger at cadsoft.de>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     On 30.01.2009 22:12, Alex Betis wrote:
> >     > Hi all,
> >     >
> >     > Is there any configuration that disables EPG updates received on
> the
> >     > channel?
> >     > Or is there a way to shift time of those updates before they are
> >     written
> >     > to EPG.data?
> >     >
> >     > The problem is that I have some channels that are transmitted for
> >     > different time zones that start transmitting EPG info, but looks
> like
> >     > the EPG is not shifted. There are some other shifted channels that
> do
> >     > transmit the EPG properly, so I believe that's a provider problem.
> >
> >     The times given in EPG data are supposed to be in UTC, so different
> >     time zones
> >     are of no interest. If teh times are not in UTC, the providers are
> >     messing up.
> >
> > So how VDR or any other settop box should know that the channel is
> > shifted in time?
>
> Beats me!

:)


>
>
> > As an example, 75.0E has NTV and NTV-2, or DTV and DTV-2
>
> Please post the complete channels.conf entries of these channels.

Here it is:

This couple looks like sending the EPG shifted correctly:
HTB;GTSS:12640:vM2O0S0:S75.0E:22000:503:504,505:0:0:100:58:103:0
HTB-3;GTSS:12640:vM2O0S0:S75.0E:22000:501:502:0:0:500:58:103:0

This couple looks like not shifting the EPG at all:
DTV-0;GTSS:12640:vM2O0S0:S75.0E:22000:201:202:0:0:200:58:103:0
DTV-2;GTSS:12518:vC78M2O0S0:S75.0E:22000:701:702=eng:0:0:504:86:100:0

This one looks like shifting the EPG in wrong direction (its scrambled, but
I've compared the content of EPG.data with official site):
CTC+7;CTC Media:12640:vM2O0S0:S75.0E:22000:401:402:0:2600:400:58:103:0



>
> >     > I use s script that updates those channels from internet, so I
> don't
> >     > mind to disable EPG update received on the channel.
> >
> >     You can set the "table id" of these events to 0 (see man 5 vdr).
> >
> > The problem is not with overwriting the data, but appending the wrong
> > data for that channel.
> > I see both script inserted and DVB transmitted data that are differ.
> >
> > Is there such "table id" setting per channel and not per EPG entry?
>
> No, this is per EPG event, not per channel.

I'll probably patch the code for now to disable the received EPG processing.

But as I see it, there is an issue even when the EPG is correctly
transmitted by a provider, for example:
What VDR will do when there is a change in the program and there is a delay
in transmission of some program?
Will it have 2 entries for the same program or update the previous entry?

If EPG time is in UTC, than that's a mystery how should those coupled
channels be handled.



> Klaus
>

Thanks.
Alex.


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