Re: [vdr] FreeviewHD compressed EPG
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Dominic Evans wrote: On 24 October 2011 12:58, Stuart Morris stuart_mor...@talk21.com wrote: The patch is here: http://www.rst38.org.uk/vdr/freesat.diff The first hunk fails to apply but this is ok because that part of the patch is relevant to freesat only. FYI I did previously rebase the patch for vdr 1.7.8 and newer (which had changed eit.c slightly) and send it to the maintainer, but he hasn't updated on his website. Oops, sorry about that, that's dropped off the end of my todo list. Please can you provide these tables somewhere? Complete tables are here: http://rst38.org.uk/vdr/freesat_tables_complete.zip cheers, dom ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] FreeviewHD compressed EPG
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Dominic Evans wrote: On 25 October 2011 14:27, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:54:36 +0100 (BST) Dominic Morris d...@suborbital.org.uk wrote: Complete tables are here: http://rst38.org.uk/vdr/freesat_tables_complete.zip Those are the ones with holes in aren't they? Stuart Morris said he had to port the tables from eepg. No, I believe EEPG took these exact tables from the same source(s) as Dom got them. Its just the freesat.diff hadn't been updated to contain the complete tables 'in-patch'. That's correct. The ones in the patch are those deduced through observation, there's an updated version of those here: http://rst38.org.uk/vdr/freesat_tables_20081027.zip Those files are completely legitimate. The complete tables were extracted from an OTA firmware upgrade and are complete. They may have dubious legality. cheers, dom ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] UK FreeviewHD and VDR
Hi, On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Chris Rankin wrote: The patch here for VDR (with separate drop in files freesat.t1 and freesat.t2) looks interesting, and would seem to allow VDR to read the compressed EPG in a transparent way. However, it has obviously not been merged to VDR in over 2 years, which would suggest that the VDR developers have rejected it for some reason. I haven't pushed it upstream to Klaus, I think the preferable solution is to do it as a plugin - search for the eepg plugin which incorporates the parsing code. P.S. Yes, I know that I am assuming that FreeSat and FreeviewHD are using the same proprietary Huffman tables. But I'm also under the impression that this assumption is not a bad one. Yup, same tables, same PIDs - they're also broadcast on some of the DVB-T muxes as well. Regards, dom ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Freesat EPG
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Tony Houghton wrote: I've had a quick look at the Freesat EPG patch for VDR to try to understand how it works. I think I've read that the Freesat EPG is broadcast on Eurobird (and only on one transponder?) whereas most of the programs are actually broadcast on Astra 28.2E, but the patch doesn't seem to add anything to VDR for selecting transponders. I believe that it's broadcast on all Freesat transponders, certainly for me, tuning to a BBC channel starts pulling in all the EPG info. I'd also like to find some more information about the Huffman encoding tables it uses. Apparently these need updating periodically. Are the tables broadcast alongside the EPG, but means to receive them hasn't made it into the VDR patch (yet)? They're hardcoded into STB so the complete tables zip file won't need updating - the only reason why the tables might need updating is if you're using the derived by observation set, which I've not had a chance to do recently - stick to the complete set and you can't go wrong. I'd also like to know if and how Freesat's logical channel numbers are broadcast and if there are alternative SDTs, PATs and PMTs especially for Freesat instead of the BSkyB ones. As far as I've seen everything is fairly standard, though the tables are off set by 3800 pids, so the BAT is at pid 3841. In terms of features I suspect that if you look at how Freeview handles thing, add 3800 to the pid then things will be the same - certainly TVAnytime is implemented the same. Regards, d. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Luca Olivetti wrote: I'm now using the Complete tables (thanks to bdb at digitalspy) and deleted epg.data before starting vdr, but still most of the titles are no title. Even those with a proper title (not many) have no additional details (i.e. there's just the title) The patch logs in the syslog when it loads/fails to load the tables: Loading table 1 Filename /etc/vdr/freesat.t1 Loading table 2 Filename /etc/vdr/freesat.t2 Cannot load /etc/vdr/freesat.t1 for table 1 Cannot load /etc/vdr/freesat.t2 for table 2 If the tables aren't loaded, then an empty title/description is returned and your logs will probably be spammed with: Missing table 1/2 entry: cheers, d. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Luca Olivetti wrote: I omitted the trailing slash in the definition, so it didn't find the files. Ah yes, that would do it! I corrected it and now I don't have no titles anymore, but there are many holes in the epg ( e.g. on bbc 1 e mids I have epg for today, the first 3 programmes of tomorrow, then it skips to the 2nd and from there to the 6th). Is it because they're slow broadcasting it? Yup, it's quite slow coming in, certainly 30 minutes if I remember correctly. cheers, d. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
