[vdr] Re: EPG Max Length

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lauri Tischler" <lauri.tischler@efore.fi>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 2:09 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: EPG Max Length


> Dennis Noordsij wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday 22 October 2002 15:01, Lauri Tischler wrote:
> > > Dennis Noordsij wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I know this kind of touches on earlier mailing list topics, but I
thought
> > > > I'd ask anyway :-)
> > > >
> > > > Is there a maximum length for EPG entries, in particular the
subtitle
> > > > field? The cable network here stuffs all information in the subtitle
> > > > field (the episode name, as well as the description), causing many
of
> > > > them to show up truncated (usually capped at 242 or so chars).
> > >
> > > Title 40 char
> > > Short info 255 char
> > > Long info 1000 char
> > >
> > > Sent you the spec in privat mail
> >
> > So what that means is that all Finnish digi-tv people get truncated
program
> > info? That sucks :(
>
> Yep, somebody should complain to Digita, or maybe not, Digita is
responsible
> for putting the data there but if the broadcasters give bum-data.....
>

... you should send them a nice snail-/email similar to:

Dear Sirs,

me and a lot of other customers of your program have problems with your
standard-violating EPG-data

...


Rene



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