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On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 11:46 +1300, Dagan Galarneau wrote:
> In the listings from hairy.geek, I've noticed that there's no genre
> data. However, the genre is available from the Sky listings on their web
> site. Is the genre data included in the DVB stream? Is it being lost in
> the conversion to XMLTV format? It would be quite useful to have the data,
> especially since MythWeb has special treatment for the Movie genre.

The DVB EPG can include vast amounts of detail.

But Sky doesn't appear to be populating it, or tv_grab_dvb doesn't know
how to decode it. I suspect the former, because the guide on Sky's set
top boxes has rating but not genre, and rating is probably what the
Unknown Element tv_grab_dvb keeps reporting is..

I haven't checked TVNZ's EPG data yet. Apparently they're uplinking
their own EPG data, it's not Sky's like the other transponders.

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