On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 09:49:11AM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Sat 12 Jul 2008 21:35:03 NZST +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > > > I'm probably missing something, but I don't see the value of this data > > anyway. > > > > Freeview is broadcast as DVB-S and DVB-T, both of which have in-band EPG > > data in a format that OSS such as MythTV already have no trouble > > parsing. > > As Nick said on his very good talk on Tue, the EPG data broadcast with > the channels is lousily assembled.
Some of the descriptions are a little wonky, but other than that it seems OK. Still, if this XMLTV data is better quality, then that's the value I wasn't seeing in it :) Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if the XMLTV data is exactly the same data in a different format, and thus has the same problems. -Jasper
