On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 09:37:27AM +1200, dave wrote: > 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. > > 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).
Best read the thread more carefully. I'm not the one with the data, I'm just pointing out that (probably) the same data is already available over DVB :) -Jasper
