I am trying to see if this still works, however, the only copies I can find are for older versions of VDR. I'm running 1.6 (almost Ubuntu) at the moment, but can't get the version available for download to patch against this.

Unfortunetely, where I'm staying only has Cable which broadcasts in analog, otherwise I can get the local channels only (mostly in HD). The usb dongle thing I picked up appears to be able to do NTSC and ATSC. TvTime works with it as does VDR now. I suppose I can do a a whole bunch of mplayer playlists and watch it using those, but I would like to setup the EPG against the channels.