Hi,
I had been interested in generating a channels.conf that contained the channels grouped by the Sky UK genre categories, whilst also using the same channel numbering.
I found a script on yavdr forums that did something similar, and I modified it to do what I wanted and include the numbering. However, I'm guessing that the attached channels.conf won't actually do what I want....
I haven't tried it out on my system yet, but vdr's manpages state that "The given number must be larger than the number of any previous channel (otherwise it is silently ignored)." so I assume the channels number 971+ in the first 'Entertainment' category are probably going cause all the following lower numbers in the next categories to be ignored? Any possible workaround? Is this a feature request?
Cheers, Dom
Hi Dom,
Did you check the new Channelpedia project? Maybe we can join forces to achieve your goal.
http://channelpedia.yavdr.com/gen/html/channels_en_S28.2E.html
Cheers, Henning
Am Donnerstag, den 05.05.2011, 14:15 +0200 schrieb Dominic Evans oldmanuk@gmail.com:
Hi,
I had been interested in generating a channels.conf that contained the channels grouped by the Sky UK genre categories, whilst also using the same channel numbering.
I found a script on yavdr forums that did something similar, and I modified it to do what I wanted and include the numbering. However, I'm guessing that the attached channels.conf won't actually do what I want....
I haven't tried it out on my system yet, but vdr's manpages state that "The given number must be larger than the number of any previous channel (otherwise it is silently ignored)." so I assume the channels number 971+ in the first 'Entertainment' category are probably going cause all the following lower numbers in the next categories to be ignored? Any possible workaround? Is this a feature request?
Cheers, Dom
Hi Henning,
On 5 May 2011 13:43, Henning Pingel henning@henningpingel.de wrote:
Hi Dom,
Did you check the new Channelpedia project? Maybe we can join forces to achieve your goal.
http://channelpedia.yavdr.com/gen/html/channels_en_S28.2E.html
Yep, I had previously discovered the Channelpedia project, but as far as I know you don't currently including numbering in your generate channels.conf files?
I'm happy to help out with extending your scripts to generate both Sky UK and Freesat numbering & grouping files - presuming that Klaus can advise on how to group higher numbered channels before lower numbered ones.
Best regards, Dom
On Thu, 5 May 2011 13:15:10 +0100 Dominic Evans oldmanuk@gmail.com wrote:
I had been interested in generating a channels.conf that contained the channels grouped by the Sky UK genre categories, whilst also using the same channel numbering.
OOI, how do you get the channel numbering? I know how to get the numbers for Freesat (and Freeview) and have written a scanner which can generate numbered channels.conf files in VDR format.
Of more interest to me than Sky numbering is to get the regional variations right in Freesat. There are some extra fields in its LCN descriptors, but I don't know how to use them. I've had to hardwire certain mappings by name (eg "BBC 1 South" = 101 etc), but all the Channel 4 variants have the same name and my script has assigned 104 to a Northern Irish variant judging by the adverts.
On 5 May 2011 15:23, Tony Houghton h@realh.co.uk wrote:
I had been interested in generating a channels.conf that contained the channels grouped by the Sky UK genre categories, whilst also using the same channel numbering.
OOI, how do you get the channel numbering? I know how to get the numbers for Freesat (and Freeview) and have written a scanner which can generate numbered channels.conf files in VDR format.
:-) I've previously been using your scanner code from boxstard to get the Freesat numberings from LCN fields.
I had hoped to hack around with your code and the eepg code to see if I could extract them for Sky, but in the end I just parsed the json data from http://epgservices.sky.com/tvlistings-proxy/TVListingsProxy/init.json and used that to match channel names to numbers and genres.
Of more interest to me than Sky numbering is to get the regional variations right in Freesat. There are some extra fields in its LCN descriptors, but I don't know how to use them. I've had to hardwire certain mappings by name (eg "BBC 1 South" = 101 etc), but all the Channel 4 variants have the same name and my script has assigned 104 to a Northern Irish variant judging by the adverts.
I'm not sure how important this is to people? I'm just as happy with BBC1 London at 101 as I am with BBC1 South. If I _really_ want regional news I can always switch to it by choice.
On Thu, 5 May 2011 16:08:09 +0100 Dominic Evans oldmanuk@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure how important this is to people? I'm just as happy with BBC1 London at 101 as I am with BBC1 South. If I _really_ want regional news I can always switch to it by choice.
I do prefer BBC's South Today to London's regional news. But the big advantage of BBC 1 London is that it's on the same transponder as BBC 2 England, Channel 5 and BBC THREE etc, so you can record/watch more than one at a time, whereas the other regions tend to be shared with other regions of the same channel.
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