On Sunday 13 July 2008 8:54:45 pm Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > 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
why not sent Nick the raw data you get off the site, and the data after your script does it's thing he would be able to see if it's better or not. again if nick wants to do this (and presuming you jasper don't have satellite access). dave
