Hi Rob, I think xmltv2vdr.pl might be a better place to start for what you are trying to achieve... as you can point it at a TV listing web site and extract all the EPG data for the channels listed apparently based on my reading of threads on this list that is! Andrew On 2/14/07, Rob Davis <rob.davis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Tony Houghton wrote: > > In <200702141528.27259.laz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Laz wrote: > > > >> On Wednesday 14 February 2007 15:24, Andrew Herron wrote: > >>> Does anyone know if the Logical Channel Numbers that are used in the > UK > >>> on Freeview DVB-T transmissions are currently handled by VDR in > anyway? > >> I'm pretty sure that they're currently ignored. I tend to hand edit my > >> channels.conf every now and then to make sure channels are in the > corerct > >> order with their correct numbers. > >> > >> The scan utility can output a vdr-format channels.conf with the channel > >> numbers included, too. > > > > I've had trouble in the past with VDR disagreeing with the format used > > by the output of scan so I've written a script which compares VDR's > > channels.conf with the output of scan with Freeview numbering and > > outputs a new file with VDR's channel data but resorted and with the > > Freeview numbering added. > > > > It uses some file locations etc which are specific to Debian and my > > local transmitter, but it can easily be altered by changing the > > upper-case variables near the top of the script. > > I like the idea of this, but I am wondering how we could adapt it to > create channel lists for other networks. > > As an idea what about parsing a webpage from lyngsat for Sky UK channel > numbers and ordering the channels in that way, or Sky Italia, TPS etc. > > Or even all of them, but having a 1 in front.. so channel 1101 Would be > BBC 1, but 2101 Rai Uno etc.. > > Or is this a silly idea..? > > I will look over the script a bit later.. :-) > > -- > Latest news on http://www.streetcredo.org.uk/rob > > Rob Davis > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20070214/dd4c310b/attachment.htm
