[vdr] Using Service Information to control recording (was: new vdr user's questions)

[colin <colin@howarth.de>]

Lauri Tischler wrote:
> 
> Steffen Koch wrote:
> >
> > IMHO VPS is not standardized in DVB so no one can simply invent such a
> > system....
> 
> Well, no VPS but DVB Specification for Service Information defines
> such a thing as 'running status' which teoretically could be used
> to control recording etc..
> I dont know if broadcasters really use that indicator.

I watch mostly the German Astra stuff (ARD, Pro7 etc). My receiver displays
the name and planned start/end times of the current programme for all of
these channels.

I assume this is the Service Information mentioned above.

Is this information available from DVB ?

colin



PS: The following link seems to be broken 

http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/linux_dvb_api-20010917.pdf