[vdr] Re: wrong entry in EPG - Update

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Oliver Endriss wrote:
> 
> On Monday 02 September 2002 11:02, Maxime GUILBOT wrote:
> > Oliver Endriss wrote:
> > >On Friday 30 August 2002 18:21, Maxime GUILBOT wrote:
> > >>I'm french and I have the Canalsatellite demo. I know that on
> > >> german channel, PROGRAMMES ALLEMANDS is displayed all day long.
> > >> But I don't use the demo anymore, I'm using vdr, would you like me
> > >> to power on again the canalsat demo ?
> > >
> > >Perhaps you could try this:
> > >First tune to the channel  'La Cinquieme'.
> > >Check the EPG for 'ZDF'. I guess you will see 'PROGRAMMES
> > > ALLEMANDS'.
> > >
> > >Then *tune* to the channel 'ZDF'.
> > >Do you see the German EPG?
> > >Does the text  'PROGRAMMES ALLEMANDS'  disappear?
> > >
> > >Oliver
> >
> > I try tune to the channel "France 5", I can see on epg, pressing the
> > button 'PILOTE', and  I can see "PROGRAMMES ALLEMANDS" on ZDF.
> > Then, I tune to the channel ZDF and when I press PILOTE to see the
> > ZDF nothing appear... (no epg info)
> > So I tune on another channel, and check the epg, I can see
> > 'PROGRAMMES ALLEMANDS' for ZDF.
> > I think I've never seen any german epg on german channels, I only see
> > 'PROGRAMMES ALLEMANDS'.
> > Hope can help.
> > Maxime.
> 
> Thanks. It seems that they display only French EPG info and ignore everything else.
> That's not the way VDR should do :-)
> 
> For all that are interested:
> I've prepared a patch (VDR 1.04) which changes EPG processing so that
> EPG info from 'actual TS' has priority over EPG info from 'other TS'.
> EPG data from actual TS is considered 'better' than EPG data from 'other TS'.
> 
> Therefore, the bogus data for ZDF will be suppressed as soon as you have
> tuned to the ZDF transponder. If there is no EPG data on the 'actual TS' (e.g. TW1)
> EPG data from 'other TS' is used. I Think this is the best we can do.
> 
> Oliver
> 
> -----------------------------------  snip ------------------------------
> diff -u vdr-1.0.4/eit.c vdr-1.0.4-patched/eit.c
> ...

That's quite a big change. I thought it might be enough to simply ignore any
EPG records for "other TS" that have a duration of 86400 seconds. Wouldn't that
do pretty much the same thing?

Klaus
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