[vdr] Re: How come there's no full EPG

[Richard Walker <runnyhunny@ntlworld.com>]

On 1 Feb 2004, at 10:08, bigg wrote:

> Out of intrest, how come we only get now and next for the EPG? I can
> understand that uk digital terrestrial only broadcasts now and next 
> info,
> but what about from satellite? Do they only broadcast now and next
> unencrypted or something? And the full 7 day listings encrypted? Or has
> someone just not quite got around to coding full support yet? Or is it 
> not
> quite as easy as I make it sound? Seeing as I really have no idea.
Sky operate their own EPG which is available on digital satellite.

According to another poster on this list, it's encrypted, but in
a largely trivial way.  The poster was working on a plugin to grab
the Sky EPG and feed it into VDR.  I've not heard anything on this
for months and months.

> I know there are various plugins to do this kind of thing, but as of 
> yet
> i've not had any success in getting any of them working. Which is
> unfortunate. If anyone in the UK wants to write some kind of plugin 
> that
> takes XML data from http://www.bleb.org/tv/ that could be quite
> cool :) I might have a look into this, but with lacking C++ skills and
> hardly any knowledge of the vdr internals, I don't really know where to
> begin!
Yeah, bleb.org seems to be a decent enough source.


Richard.



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