[vdr] Re: New epg source

[Steven Toth <steve@toth.demon.co.uk>]

Hi,

thanks for the useful feedback.

However, the dvb-s card HAS to be retuned to collect the data via 
satellite from a specific single transponder.

Hence, I thought the integration with VDR would have to be a lot closer.

Steve

Morfsta wrote:
> The software does not need to re-tune the dvb-t card as it is possible to
> insert epg information in bulk for all channels (using SVDRP which runs on
> TCP port 2001), based on info from channels.conf. Once this has happened,
> epg.data is populated with the information by the running instance of VDR.
> VDR does not need to be restarted. It is also possible to allow VDR to
> overwrite the EPG information from xmltv with the information received
> from the DVB EPG information (in the UK this unfortunately is only "now"
> and "next" hence the need for such a utility)
>
> I have placed my script xmltv2vdr in the crontab file to run every night 
> to re-populate the EPG based on potential changes and to grab the next 
> day. So I am always 4 days ahead (xmltv only does 4 days of UK information 
> for some reason).
>
> I will release the script this weekend (credits need to be made to the
> authors of the sky plugin and instructions on how to get it working for UK
> freeview written). How would I go about getting the script included with
> latest versions of VDR?




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