On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 14:07 +0000, Hywel Williams wrote:
> I can't see anything wrong with the times in the data sets both for
> today and the 29th's tarball. Remember that they're all in UTC
> (hence the Z at the end of the time), so anything up until 31st
> October appears to be out of synch by an hour. I'll look into it in
> more detail tomorrow to ensure there isn't a problem, but at the end
> of the day, it's up to the end application to sort out daylight savings.
OK. It turns out, that you are right. The information in the tvtime
data is, in fact, correct.
My clock, as it turns out, was wrong, possibly having something to do
with the loss of power in my house this morning. Many apologies.
> The time difference you're seeing is the difference between the
> published time and the actual time the playout server was going to
> show the programme.
Thanks; that explains it -- quite well -- and it is more or less as I
summarized. For my present application, I think I'm going to continue
on with showing the published times, but for some project the actual
times are far more useful.
> In the future, a TV-Anytime service may be broadcast along with a
> tv/radio digital service or provided as a live Internet feed and this
> exact time could be used to, say start a PVR or stream recorder.
I knew that was planned; thanks for confirming that it hasn't yet happened.
(Now there's one less option I have for guessing what all the various data
streams are.)
> As to separating the name - I'll look into the TV-Anytime standard to
> see if there's a field for this (I don't recollect one)
There's not one. I was hoping the data could have an extra namespace
added to it, and a <bbc:episodeTitle>...</bbc:episodeTitle> element, or
the like. Natrually, I wouldn't expect that data to show up on the
over-the-air version of the tvanytime data -- I doubt the encoding
definition or most decoders would support alternate namespaces being
present.
> The synopsis provided
> is in fact a slightly cleaned up version of the one that goes out to
> Sky and Freeview, so to extract the title from the synopsis, I'd have
> to somehow work out which part of the text is the episode title. If
> there's a pattern, it's easy to write a filter. Where different
> schedulers do it in different ways, that's where it gets complicated.
Ah. I was hoping that the data got combined into the synopsis in code,
not by people. I've looked into it, and while it is fairly regular when
it is there, it's hard to tell an episode title from a short first
paragraph.
-=- James Mastros
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