[vdr] Re: In what circumstances is epg.data saved to disk?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Onno wrote:
> 
> HI,
> 
> Matthias Schniedermeyer schrieb:
> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:04:46AM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >
> >>Thomas Keil wrote:
> >>
> >>>>channels.conf and timers.conf are saved every time one of their
> >>>>entries is changed, so there's no need for such commands.
> >>>
> >>>How often are they read?
> >>>
> >>>Every ten minutes, too?
> >>>Or just when VDR starts?
> >>
> >>These are only read ahen VDR starts.
> >>If you want to change any of these entries, use the OSD or
> >>the appropriate SVDRP commands, like MODC, MODT, NEWT or NEWC.
> >
> >
> > Btw.
> > svdrp.c:  Reply(502, "DELC not yet implemented");
> >
> and no way of editing an epg event without heavy network
> i/o, which is some kind of very stupid, since ~95% of all
> users use svdrp on localhost, which makes it very annoying,
> if you just want to fix the broken epg.
> i want my episodes to have the correct episode title
> in a directory structure, thus i must copy the first string
> of the description (D) to the sub-title (S), this has to be
> done even when one uses xmltv2vdr
> (after enhancing it to support sub-titles).
> 
> so i have to use ugly shell code sed,awk,grep,cut
> after getting the data from netcat, and before
> sending it back with netcat, and if vdr gets stuck on
> reimport of 6-7mb of epg all is lost and i repeat with
> increased usleep's. this tends to block vdr from 6:00h
> till 7:30h (including import of external xmltv and filtering
> for double timers/recordings)
> 
> i guess it would be easier and faster if either:
> 
> A)svdrp gets a lot more commands to manipulate more
> of vdrs internal data (epg, timer, channels, states-of-devices)
> selective
> i.e. not all at once, but one pice at a time, like
> only the subtitle of a certain recording, which must be fetch'able
> like in a database (asterixes,patterns, but no advanced db stuff )
> 
> or
> 
> B)
> vdr get the ability to re-read its conf/data files on demand
> (manually edited timers,epg [WHICH NEVER WORKS AS EXPECTED
> UNLESS FIXED BY HAND/SCRIPT] , or channels and commands)
> 
> Jet still i know those "problems" would be there if there
> wasn't Klaus and the fantastic vdr software...
> 
> So just my experience on the way to a _perfect_ TV Experience.
> 
> Regards to Klaus and all Contributors to this Dream,

So am I right in assuming that your main problem is the wrong
format of some stations' EPG data? VDR has a builtin mechanism
that tries to fix this (see cEventInfo::FixEpgBugs()).
Maybe you want to add the fixes for your channels there.

Klaus


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