On 5 May 2011 15:23, Tony Houghton <h...@realh.co.uk> wrote: >> I had been interested in generating a channels.conf that contained the >> channels grouped by the Sky UK genre categories, whilst also using the >> same channel numbering. > > OOI, how do you get the channel numbering? I know how to get the numbers > for Freesat (and Freeview) and have written a scanner which can generate > numbered channels.conf files in VDR format.
:-) I've previously been using your scanner code from boxstard to get the Freesat numberings from LCN fields. I had hoped to hack around with your code and the eepg code to see if I could extract them for Sky, but in the end I just parsed the json data from http://epgservices.sky.com/tvlistings-proxy/TVListingsProxy/init.json and used that to match channel names to numbers and genres. > Of more interest to me than Sky numbering is to get the regional > variations right in Freesat. There are some extra fields in its LCN > descriptors, but I don't know how to use them. I've had to hardwire > certain mappings by name (eg "BBC 1 South" = 101 etc), but all the > Channel 4 variants have the same name and my script has assigned 104 to > a Northern Irish variant judging by the adverts. I'm not sure how important this is to people? I'm just as happy with BBC1 London at 101 as I am with BBC1 South. If I _really_ want regional news I can always switch to it by choice. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
