By Yesterday I don't mean the day before today, I mean a channel on Freeview, the UK's DVB-T network :).
VDR doesn't seem to be able to get the EIT data for the Yesterday channel. The code I've written for boxstar can grab it OK, so I don't think there's anything special about the channel. Does VDR try to scan the EIT for programmes on other frequencies as well as the currently tuned one? Boxstar does. Perhaps VDR doesn't, and this channel doesn't carry its own EIT for some reason. Freesat has some weird quirks like that (as well as using non-standard PIDs) but I thought Freeview was a lot more conventional.
On 09.08.2009 22:45, Tony Houghton wrote:
By Yesterday I don't mean the day before today, I mean a channel on Freeview, the UK's DVB-T network :).
VDR doesn't seem to be able to get the EIT data for the Yesterday channel. The code I've written for boxstar can grab it OK, so I don't think there's anything special about the channel. Does VDR try to scan the EIT for programmes on other frequencies as well as the currently tuned one?
Yes, it does. You just need to tune to the transponder that carries the actial EPG data (or let VDR do an EPG scan).
Klaus
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:01:07 +0200 Klaus Schmidinger Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de wrote:
On 09.08.2009 22:45, Tony Houghton wrote:
By Yesterday I don't mean the day before today, I mean a channel on Freeview, the UK's DVB-T network :).
VDR doesn't seem to be able to get the EIT data for the Yesterday channel. The code I've written for boxstar can grab it OK, so I don't think there's anything special about the channel. Does VDR try to scan the EIT for programmes on other frequencies as well as the currently tuned one?
In fact, it isn't just Yesterday, the entire Freeview network has no EPG in VDR. I can tune to the channels though. The DVB-S EPG is present though.
Yes, it does. You just need to tune to the transponder that carries the actial EPG data (or let VDR do an EPG scan).
If VDR does scan the EIT for other transport streams why would I need to tune to the one carrying the channel whose EPG I want? In theory the EPG for the entire network should be available on each and every transponder/frequency.
On Monday 10 Aug 2009, Tony Houghton wrote:
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:01:07 +0200
In fact, it isn't just Yesterday, the entire Freeview network has no EPG in VDR. I can tune to the channels though. The DVB-S EPG is present though.
Are you referring to Freeview, the UHF terrestrial DVB-T service in the UK, or Freesat, the free-to-air satellite service? FreeSAT uses a dedicated transponder to carry the EPG for all channels, and the information is carried using a non-standard coding scheme. There is a patch for Freesat at http://www.rst38.org.uk/vdr/ though I have no idea whether it works.
Hi
I confirm it work nice , it read the EPG data from any "freesat" transpondeur you are and feed epg data transparently , usually watching ITV or BBC feed it
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Selon Dave P vdr@pickles.me.uk:
There is a patch for Freesat
at http://www.rst38.org.uk/vdr/ though I have no idea whether it works.
Dave
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:03:28 +0100 Dave P vdr@pickles.me.uk wrote:
On Monday 10 Aug 2009, Tony Houghton wrote:
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:01:07 +0200
In fact, it isn't just Yesterday, the entire Freeview network has no EPG in VDR. I can tune to the channels though. The DVB-S EPG is present though.
Are you referring to Freeview, the UHF terrestrial DVB-T service in the UK, or Freesat, the free-to-air satellite service? FreeSAT uses a dedicated transponder to carry the EPG for all channels, and the information is carried using a non-standard coding scheme. There is a patch for Freesat at http://www.rst38.org.uk/vdr/ though I have no idea whether it works.
Freeview is the one I'm having the problem with. I am using the Freesat patch because I've got both types of card; the Freesat EPG is working, the Freeview one isn't. I'll have a look at the patch later and confirm that it adds the Freesat pids rather than replacing the standard ones, but I'm sure they both used to work together and I haven't changed anything recently.
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:52:49 +0100 Tony Houghton h@realh.co.uk wrote:
Freeview is the one I'm having the problem with. I am using the Freesat patch because I've got both types of card; the Freesat EPG is working, the Freeview one isn't. I'll have a look at the patch later and confirm that it adds the Freesat pids rather than replacing the standard ones, but I'm sure they both used to work together and I haven't changed anything recently.
I realised today that there had been a change after all, the standard deb for 1.6.0-11 had replaced my patched 1.6.0-8. One of the patches that's been added must be dodgy, I'll report a bug in Debian.
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:52:55 +0100 Tony Houghton h@realh.co.uk wrote:
In fact, it isn't just Yesterday, the entire Freeview network has no EPG in VDR. I can tune to the channels though. The DVB-S EPG is present though.
I think what it's turned out to be was a problem in my channels.conf. There was a bug in the program I use to generate it, prepending a '1' to the guard interval denominator. It was also outputting "I0" whereas I noticed scan from dvb-apps outputs "I999". After changing those two things I've got my EPG back. Strange how the problem didn't prevent viewing as well as EPG harvesting.
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