[vdr] Re: EPG technical info

["Carlos Fernandez Sanz" <cfs-vdr@nisupu.com>]

Marcel,

I got all the docs from ETSI already, thanks :-)
Yes, please send me the current version of the library, I'll look into
integrating it into mythtv.

Thanks!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcel Wiesweg" <marcel.wiesweg@gmx.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 22:03
Subject: [vdr] Re: EPG technical info


> Am Freitag, 26. Dezember 2003 01:30 schrieb Carlos Fernandez Sanz:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm starting to look into integrating full EPG support into mythtv. I
know
> > vdr has a pretty good support already. I wonder if there are technical
> > specs on this topic or just some good reverse ingeniering.
>
> Thanks to ETSI, the specification is freely available. Simply get the
latest
> ETSI EN 300 468 from www.etsi.org.
>
> >
> > From what I've seen in the source code, each channel carries its own
> > programming via events, which would definitely explain why the EPG is
slow
> > as hell in the original decoder. But possibly some docs would give me a
> > clearer overview than the source code - of course I'll get deeply in the
> > code when I actually gets my hands dirty.
> >
> > Anyone, can anyone point me to the relevant documentation, if such a
thing
> > exists?
>
> VDR will switch to a new library to decode the DVB SI information in the
> upcoming 1.3 release. Use it, no need to reinvent the wheel. If you are
> interested I can send you a current and corrected version via private
mail.
>
> The higher level code - building a database from the EI tables - is in
VDR's
> eit.c. You will have to read the code.
>
> Marcel
>
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>
>
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