[vdr] Re: EPG data length

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

>Jan Ekholm wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> As my VDR box has now been exceptionally stable for a while I've again
>> started using it for "serious" recordings. In the process of using VDR a
>> lot more I've noticed that the EPG data that VDR shows about a program can
>> sometimes be cut in half. I select a program from the normal program list
>> an press Ok to get info about it, and long texts are always cut off. VDR
>> seems to show a few lines of the EPG text, but then it suddenly ends in
>> the middle of a word.
>> 
>> Looking at epg.data I see that the data is already cut off in that file,
>> so VDR probably just displays whatever it reads from the file.
>> 
>> Is there some maximum length for the description string for a program and
>> the problem here is that our Finnish channels just send too long strings,
>> or is it something that VDR/DVB determines? It looks a bit silly to have
>> the descriptions just get cut in half. :)
>
>VDR doesn't do this intentionally.
>I also see this problem with EPG data from the German ZDF channel, for
>instance. The EPG data from the Premiere channels, though mostly much
>longer, isn't cut off, however.
>
>I assume there is something wrong with the EPG data from these chennels.

Could be that the data that the "channel companies" somehow have
internally is pretty long, and their process of creating the EPG data
somehow cuts it to some max length. 

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