On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > Volker >
But frankly its probably the same data as on the freeview website. I assume there is one point at which someone inputs garbage, and it gets output on the EIT info, the website, and everywhere. The wording is clearly generic for episode descriptions - its often the same wording as you see on tv.com, thetvdb.com and elsewhere. Also the stuff on the freeview site, whilst xml, is not in xmltv format. Thats easily changed with XSLT. However the info on the freeview site does alo include a flag for High Def material and one for whether the show is captioned. At the moment I reinforce what I said on Tuesday, use epgsnoop OR tv_grab_nz-py and you will get better quality data than the raw EIT feed from the satellite. The data is not too bad, certainly better than nothing. It enables me to record a lot of stuff reliably. It pays to look at your upcoming recordings every now and then to make sure its gonna get what you want. The thing I think it lacks the most are consistency in naming of shows (viz: The Tudors cd Sunday Theatre:The Tudors) and the lack of episode title information (confusingly called subtitle in xmltv/myth speak). Some shows do have the episode title info, mainly on TV3. Whether that is TV3 getting it right or epgsnoop fixing it I do not know.
