[vdr] Re: Multi-day EPG for the Sky Digital?

[Sean Carlos <seanc@libero.it>]

Gavin Hamill wrote:

> Hi :)
>
> What are people (Klaus?) using to get EPG for Sky channels? Is XMLTV still the 
> best bet? Is the 'xmltv2vdr' 1.0.6 script ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Tools still 
> valid / useful today?
>
> The README for 1.0.6 talks about adding the XMLTV "sky-news.sky.com" style 
> channel name - but surely this will be overwritten when VDR updates PIDs / 
> Channel names?
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin,
>  
I'm using xmltv + a modified xmltv2vdr.  Make sure you get the latest 
version of xmltv.  There are two UK sources - Radio Times 
(tv_grab_uk_rt) offers richer data.

I modified xmltv2vdr to include program subtitles (the secondary title, 
not the hearing impaired type!) and to through additional attributes 
into the description field, such as Film rating, actors etc.  I need to 
finish some internationalization and to test it with other data sources 
before I pass it on to the maintainer for a general release.  But if you 
want to test it, let me know.

Sean