[vdr] Re: /video/epg.data: illegal channel ID problem

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>]

How are you populating the epg.data?  Just putting things in the file? 
It is better to use svdrp.  There is an example in the vdr distribution.
(src/PLUGINS/sky/getsky.pl.  I use a similar script for my epg grabs.

getsky.pl (and my scripts) use the svdrp command lstc to get a list of
channels and ids that you can then be sure are correct.



On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 11:19, Robert Sturrock wrote:
> I have recently setup VDR version 1.2.2 (absolutely wonderful
> software, BTW) to work with a Hauppauge Nova-T card (Australian
> version).  I'm trying to populate /video/epg.data with data I've
> trawled from the local online TV guide here, but everytime I start VDR
> I'm seeing these messages in the logfile:
> 
>   Aug 24 23:26:52 tivo vdr[7705]: reading EPG data from /video/epg.data
>   Aug 24 23:26:52 tivo vdr[7705]: reading EPG data from /video/epg.data
>   Aug 24 23:26:52 tivo vdr[7705]: ERROR: illegal channel ID: T-0-177-0
>   Aug 24 23:26:52 tivo vdr[7705]: ERROR: illegal channel ID: T-0-177-0
> 
> The channel-ids are the default ones that were presumably created by
> VDR - I did not create them myself - so I'm confused as to why VDR
> says that are illegal.
> 
> My /video/channels.conf file looks like this:
> 
>   ABC:226500:B7G16I0:T:27500:512:650:0:0:0:0:0:0
>   SBS:536625:B7G8I0:T:27500:161:81:0:0:0:0:0:0
>   SEVEN:177500:B7G8I0:T:27500:769:770:0:0:0:0:0:0
>   NINE:191625:B7G8I0:T:27500:513:660:0:0:0:0:0:0
>   TEN:219500:B7G16I0:T:27500:512:650:0:0:0:0:0:0
> 
> The original /video/epg.data file looked like this:
> 
>   C T-0-536-0 SBS
>   c
>   C T-0-177-0 SEVEN
>   c
>   C T-0-219-0 TEN
>   c
>   C T-0-191-0 NINE
>   c
>   C T-0-226-0 TWO
>   c
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to obtain the correct ids?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Robert.
> 



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