[vdr] Re: Multi-day EPG for the Sky Digital?

[Brian_Dorling@t-online.de (Brian)]

Sean Carlos wrote:

> Gavin Hamill wrote:
>
> > Hi :)
> >
> > What are people (Klaus?) using to get EPG for Sky channels? Is XMLTV 
> > still the best bet? Is the 'xmltv2vdr' 1.0.6 script 
> > ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Tools still valid / useful today?
> >
> > The README for 1.0.6 talks about adding the XMLTV "sky-news.sky.com" 
> > style channel name - but surely this will be overwritten when VDR 
> > updates PIDs / Channel names?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gavin,
> >  
> I'm using xmltv + a modified xmltv2vdr.  Make sure you get the latest 
> version of xmltv.  There are two UK sources - Radio Times 
> (tv_grab_uk_rt) offers richer data.
>
> I modified xmltv2vdr to include program subtitles (the secondary 
> title, not the hearing impaired type!) and to through additional 
> attributes into the description field, such as Film rating, actors 
> etc.  I need to finish some internationalization and to test it with 
> other data sources before I pass it on to the maintainer for a general 
> release.  But if you want to test it, let me know.
>
> Sean
Hi,
I use WGET to retrieve data for the UK channels from BLEB.ORG, then 
xmltv2vdr to send that data to VDR.
I run it automatically each time VDR starts, that way I always have 
about the next 7 days of UK EPG in VDR.
German EPG comes over satellite as usual.

Cheers Brian