Marko Mäkelä wrote:
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 03:32:50PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Anssi Hannula wrote:
Marko Mäkelä wrote:
I'm watching Finnish DVB-T streams with VDR. Often, the EPG information for a program contains part of the description of the previous or following program. EPG bugfix level is set to 2. Should it be configured differently for Finnish transponders? Has anyone tried to contact the transponder people?
I set it to 0 and those problems were gone.
This would mean that VDR's efforts to "fix" the EPG data would actually "damage" it?!
I tried setting the bugfix level from 2 to 0 and requesting an EPG update, but it didn't fix anything. When I browsed the EPG, I saw the same program
You should remove the epg.data file before (re)starting VDR in such a case, so that it freshly fetches all EPG records.
entry twice. When I looked at the details in the nearby entries, I saw the long description of one program for both that program and the following one.
Maybe you could investigate a little more into this to find out what actually does the damage?
Which transponder/channel is this data on?
I don't know how the EPG works, but I think the master DVB-T transponder here is the one that carries the state-owned YLE channels. There are two other transponders; I practically never use the third one. I have encountered bugs in the EPG entries of all channels I've browsed.
What exactly would you like to see to troubleshoot this problem? Is the epg.data file an exact dump of the EPG data, or does it leave out something
The epg.data file contains what VDR stores, after any "bugfixes".
already? Is it possible to get a raw dump of the EPG data?
You could add some code for that in the eit.c file.
If you run VDR with EPG bugfix level 0 (and an empty epg.data) then you should see the EPG data in the menus pretty much as it comes in. If you see a difference between bugfix level 0 and any higher level, then it's most likely VDR that modifies the data in a way you don't like (see my reply to Rolf's posting in this thread). In that case we need to refine VDR's EPG bugfix code.
Klaus