First off, this is experimental code, having said that, it works quite well for me (freeview in the UK)
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:21 +0000, Stephen Williams wrote: > I have a system with two DVB-T (uk) receivers which i've just upgraded > to 0.17 from 0.16. I have a few questions regarding program guide data > (EPG). I've tried enabing the in-built guide grabber (by uncommenting > the DVB_USING_EIT setting) but i'm having a few problems. > > Firstly, it only appears to be getting guide data when i'm watching / > recording and not when the system is idle, is this correct / expected? > Check that you haven't got "on demand" set for your card. > Secondly, I only appear to be getting guide data for the mux/transport > i'm tuned to, even though in the UK (Freeview) the guide data for all > muxes are sent on every mux, is this correct / expected? Not quite true, some mux's are better than others for EIT data. mux one seems to have everything most of the time. > The result is > that i'd have to sit there watching a channel for each mux in turn to > fully update the guide, not ideal! Taylor was considering doing this auto magically, but it shouldn't be needed in the UK. > > Previously i've been using tv_grab_dvb with great success to get my > guide data (the system has no internet connection), is it possible to > still use this tool until the wrinkles with the internal guide grabber > have been sorted? ... or have the database changes made current > versions of tv_grab_dvb unusable? It should be ok, but you need to switch of the OTA guide setting and fill in the xmltvid. -- John
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