On Tuesday 12 Jun 2007, Alex Stansfield wrote:
Hi,
with the launch of Freeview Playback in the UK, I was wondering if anyone here knew how the series links were sent to the dvb box.
Freeview Playback is a system by which series link information is sent to the dvb box, allowing someone to select to record a whole series. Some sort of link information is sent, I guess in the epg, about each episode so that the dvb box can be sure it's always recording unique episodes of a series.
I thought that support for Freeview Playback would be an excellent addition to plugins like epgsearch.
If anyone knows any more about how the system works or has the DTG specification (can't see it on their website) please let me know.
The EPG format is covered by this document (which I think is the latest issue)
http://webapp.etsi.org/action/OP/OP20060428/en_300468v010701o.pdf
so presumably the data fits in to the specification somehow. I looked through this and also checked the broadcast data with dvbsnoop last weekend but couldn't see anything obvious. Maybe no-one is broadcasting the links yet.
It would certainly be an excellent addition to VDR.
Dave