[linux-dvb] Re: Request: Exporting of EPG data from VDR

[Martin Hammerschmid <martin@hammerschmid.com>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> Dave Chapman wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > After lurking on this list for a few months, I've finally bought and
> > installed a DVB card.  Many thanks to everyone involved in both the driver
> > and VDR projects.
> >
> > My first thoughts for small enhancements to VDR is to export, in some way,
> > the EPG data collected in eit.c for use by an external EPG application.
> >
> > How about exporting the data to text files (one file per event) in a
> > directory hierarchy in /video.  For example:
> >
> > printf(filename,"/video/epg/%i/%i/%i.epg",satelliteid,service,eventid);
> >
> > I'm happy to implement this  - the VDR patch should only be a few lines - but
> > it may best be done by someone completely familiar with the eit.c code.
> >
> > An external (Perl?) script could be run by cron (or in the Commands menu of
> > VDR) to delete the files describing events that have been broadcast.
> 
> I made a quick hack that implements an "EPG dump" every 10 minutes
> into the file /video/epg.data, and also a small Perl script that reads
> that file and produces HTML pages showing all the data.
> 
> The HTML conversion is very raw, no fancy layout, but it shows how to
> parse the epg.data file, which stores the entire EPG data in a very
> simple, easily parseable format.
> 
> So, if you want to try that, get the file
> 
>    http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/epgdump.tgz
> 
> and apply the two diff's to 'eit.c' and 'eit.h' (this assumes vdr version 0.68).
> Then recompile 'vdr', restart it and wait 10 minutes.
> After the file/video/epg.data has been generated, execute
> 
>    epg2html < /video/epg.data
> 
> This writes the HTML pages into the current directory.
> Fire up your browser and load the 'index.htm' file.
> After that it's plain Web browsing...
> 

neat feature, works fine for me.
what about output over SVDRP, might be useful for some clients?

Martin

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