[vdr] Re: EPG limitations in radio recordings

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Dennis Noordsij wrote:

>
>> Ah, would that be why it's rare to see a full description field here, they
>> are usually truncated at some point. But why would that happen at "XYZ"
>> chars?
>
>"XYZ" meaning the maximum designated length of the subtitle field. I'm not
>sure what it is exactly :)   Something like 100-200.  I can not believe they
>are STILL doing this wrong (been like that forever, years) because it will
>show up on any digibox. (then again most "real" digiboxes I've seen don't
>have very fancy EPG options anyway).

I checked out some of the descriptions that get cut off, and it seems that
the longest decriptions are always around 220 chars, no more. The exact
location varies a bit, but that could be due to whitespace or something
similar. I could ask at work wether the guys there have seen something
weird with the Finnish channels, as it would be interesting to see where
it goes wrong (sender, DVB-drivers or VDR). After I set the "EPG Bugfix
Level" to 0 (off) the descriptions got a lot longer (up to the ~220
character limit).

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