Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG

2008-11-29 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:43:46 + (GMT) Dominic Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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! Looks like that was my problem too. > > I correcte

Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG

2008-11-29 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: > Hi > > I have read all your exchange since beginning but I still do not understand > and > really curious to know what is the real gain to patch VDR and wait at least 30 > minutes to have EPG instead of using Loadepg plugin who do the full job in 2 > minutes ?

Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG

2008-11-29 Thread dplu
Hi I have read all your exchange since beginning but I still do not understand and really curious to know what is the real gain to patch VDR and wait at least 30 minutes to have EPG instead of using Loadepg plugin who do the full job in 2 minutes ? Are there EPG info not available with plugin but

Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG

2008-11-29 Thread Dominic Morris
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 title"s anymore, but there are > many holes in the epg ( e.g. on "bbc 1 e mids" I have epg for today, the

Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG

2008-11-29 Thread Dominic Morris
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 tit

Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG

2008-11-29 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:10:50 + (GMT) Dominic Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Luca Olivetti wrote: > > > FWIW I see the same with 1.7.0. > > I tried various bbc channels, a couple > > of itv ones and, surprisingly, I see the "no title" (localized) > > items also on f

Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG

2008-11-29 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:02:45 +0100 Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > El Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:12:06 + > Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > It is working well on my VDR machine. > > > > It sort of works for me with 1.6.0, but not quite well enough. VDR > > now lists

Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG

2008-11-29 Thread Dominic Morris
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Luca Olivetti wrote: > FWIW I see the same with 1.7.0. > I tried various bbc channels, a couple > of itv ones and, surprisingly, I see the "no title" (localized) items > also on film4 (surprisingly because it shouldn't be part of freesat, at > least the freesat web page only l

Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG

2008-11-29 Thread Luca Olivetti
El Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:12:06 + Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > It is working well on my VDR machine. > > It sort of works for me with 1.6.0, but not quite well enough. VDR now > lists all the times correctly but most of the programmes still have no > titles or program info. I'

Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG

2008-11-29 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:40:56 +0100 André Weidemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > Tony Houghton wrote: > > VDR isn't fetching EPG info for my DVB-S channels. At best it shows > > what's on now and next but many channels seem to have no data at all. > > Ever since the Freesat platform

Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG

2008-11-28 Thread André Weidemann
Hi Tony, Tony Houghton wrote: > VDR isn't fetching EPG info for my DVB-S channels. At best it shows > what's on now and next but many channels seem to have no data at all. Ever since the Freesat platform was launched a few months ago, the EPG data is being broadcasted along the program on a non

Re: [vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG

2008-11-28 Thread dplu
Hi You can use loadepg plugin to load 1 week of EPG information for quite all channels of SKY UK and Freesat There is a thread talking about options here : http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=77780&hilight=loadepg Currenty I use guide coming from xmltv connected to RT site (grab_r

[vdr] Sky/Freesat EPG

2008-11-28 Thread Tony Houghton
VDR isn't fetching EPG info for my DVB-S channels. At best it shows what's on now and next but many channels seem to have no data at all. My dish is a Sky minidish, so I presume I don't have diseqc. To "seed" channels.conf I used the scan utility from linuxtv-dvb-apps, with the initial tuning file