Mailing List Archive: EPG data

EPG data

May 25, 2015, 3:28 AM

Post #1 of 3 (1418 views)

Hi,
I've been using an epg download to populate MythTV (Ubuntu) for freeview
and non-freeview channels for the last few years, but unfortunately it
hasn't been updated in a few days and its now almost run out. So, I
suppose its time for me to look at how to go about implementing my own
grabber to generate the data directly (unless, of course there is a
simpler alternative). Can anyone help with a pointer or a guide to help
a relative Linux newbie figure out the steps needed to generate the epg
from a cable source in NZ. I suspect I'll be needing a tuner card
(recommendations?) and a method to process the stream to extract the xml
guide data. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Alistair

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Re: EPG data [ In reply to ]

nick.rout at gmail

May 25, 2015, 3:36 AM

Post #2 of 3 (1380 views)

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tv_grab_nz-py or have you been using something else?

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Alistair Dunn <alistair@rtr.org.nz> wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been using an epg download to populate MythTV (Ubuntu) for freeview
> and non-freeview channels for the last few years, but unfortunately it
> hasn't been updated in a few days and its now almost run out. So, I suppose
> its time for me to look at how to go about implementing my own grabber to
> generate the data directly (unless, of course there is a simpler
> alternative). Can anyone help with a pointer or a guide to help a relative
> Linux newbie figure out the steps needed to generate the epg from a cable
> source in NZ. I suspect I'll be needing a tuner card (recommendations?) and
> a method to process the stream to extract the xml guide data. Any help or
> advice would be greatly appreciated,
> Thanks,
> Alistair
>
>
>
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Re: EPG data [ In reply to ]

stephen_agent at jsw

May 25, 2015, 4:40 AM

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On Mon, 25 May 2015 22:28:08 +1200, you wrote:

>Hi,
>I've been using an epg download to populate MythTV (Ubuntu) for freeview
>and non-freeview channels for the last few years, but unfortunately it
>hasn't been updated in a few days and its now almost run out. So, I
>suppose its time for me to look at how to go about implementing my own
>grabber to generate the data directly (unless, of course there is a
>simpler alternative). Can anyone help with a pointer or a guide to help
>a relative Linux newbie figure out the steps needed to generate the epg
>from a cable source in NZ. I suspect I'll be needing a tuner card
>(recommendations?) and a method to process the stream to extract the xml
>guide data. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated,
>Thanks,
>Alistair

If you want to do it for yourself, the mhegepgsnoop will get the
official MHEG5 data from the FreeviewHD DVB-T channels. For DVB-S
Freeview, use epgsnoop, which also works with Sky DVB-S, and you will
need a DVB-S/S2 card to do that.

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