[EPG] Linux MHEG5 EPG Converter

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solorvox

51 posts

Master Geek

#60651 29-Apr-2010 16:53

Hi all,

A while back I posted about getting a working MHEG EPG for mythtv. Didn't find what I needed so I wrote one. It's a single script that only requires bash, awk, sed, and rb-download.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mheg2xmltv/

You need rb-download, http://redbutton.sourceforge.net/ and then the script. It currently converts MHEG-5 DVB-T to XMLTV xml file. Right now I get a 7 day listing using DVB-T MHEG-5 data. Listings include: title, description, freeview rating, teletext, HD quality flags, and start/stop times.

Feedback welcome, so please email me comments/problems.

Cheers,
sV

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#324966 29-Apr-2010 21:02

Wow, nice. Thank you very much!

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solorvox

51 posts

Master Geek

#325038 30-Apr-2010 00:01

Added more code, now does automatic xmltv channel id mapping from crid://* to *.freeviewnz.tv. Few other minor additions.

mentalinc

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#325332 30-Apr-2010 15:54

This should make openmedia one happy man.

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openmedia

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#325403 30-Apr-2010 18:55

mentalinc: This should make openmedia one happy man.

We've got numerous ways to extract the EPG data already, but its nice to have support for the MHEG stream.

Already adding patches and feedback to this project ;)

Steve

Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat APAC as a Technology Evangelist and Portfolio Architect. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.

alitom

26 posts

Geek

#331354 18-May-2010 13:37

Anyone looking into getting this working with OpenTvix?

Tom

Jamms

22 posts

Geek

#339047 7-Jun-2010 16:12

This is excellent, after a lot of trial and error I got this running last night (on mythbuntu 10.4) and manually imported it into mythtv. I'd love to help make this a simpler setup for idiots like me. Would anyone who's using it mind sharing the glue they use to run rb-download, mheg2xmltv and import it into myth? shell scripts? cron jobs? Also how long should rb-download take to run? I left it running for a few minutes and killed it, I'm not sure if it was meant to finish on it's own.

solorvox

51 posts

Master Geek

#339058 7-Jun-2010 16:55

Jamms: This is excellent, after a lot of trial and error I got this running last night (on mythbuntu 10.4) and manually imported it into mythtv. I'd love to help make this a simpler setup for idiots like me. Would anyone who's using it mind sharing the glue they use to run rb-download, mheg2xmltv and import it into myth? shell scripts? cron jobs? Also how long should rb-download take to run? I left it running for a few minutes and killed it, I'm not sure if it was meant to finish on it's own.

I'm glad it is working for you. I have some helper scripts that I just didn't include in the package. Just need to tidy them up a bit and can include it.

To answer you question, MHEG-5 data is very quickly downloaded. Typical time needed is 45 seconds. I usually run it at 2am for about 120 seconds to ensure everything is downloaded. rb-download itself is designed to run all the time and listen on a network port. But we only need the data once per day so a simple grab of 120 secs give you all you need for 7 day listing.

So again, I'll try and include some examples of helper scripts and improve the readme. :)

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solorvox

51 posts

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#339153 7-Jun-2010 20:40

I've updated the mheg2xmltv package to include the wrapper script and updated the documenation.

And do let me know if you have any problems with it. I just updated it from alpha to beta since there are at least a few people running it.

TechnoGuy001

853 posts

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#384132 24-Sep-2010 18:51

Love the idea.

Been working on this the whole afternoon, was even trying to compile rp-browser, then I realised I didn't need to :P

Using Debian 5 BTW

So im trying to use rb-download, but it doesn't want to work, keeps complaining about 'Invalid parameter 'QAM_AUTO' in channels.conf file'

debian:~# rb-download -v -a 1 -f /root/channels1.conf -b $HOME/mheg 1200
Trying to open /root/channels1.conf
Searching channels.conf for service_id 1200
TV ONE(TVNZ):522000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_AUTO:FEC_AUTO:QAM_AUTO:TRANSMISSION_MODE_AUTO:GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO:HIERARCHY_AUTO:270:320:1200
Invalid parameter 'QAM_AUTO' in channels.conf file

But then if I'm already tuned to a channel and do this, it displays the channels...
debian:~# rb-download
Channels on this mutiplex:

ID Channel
== =======
1302 TV3 PLUS1
1300 TV3
1301 C4
1303 C42

Any ideas?

TechnoGuy001

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#384355 25-Sep-2010 16:28

^ edit
Using Debian 5 x64

Trying Ubuntu 10.04 x64 now (tried it, same errors as Debian)

Could it be the x64?

Will give x32 a go tomorrow

openmedia

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#384362 25-Sep-2010 17:05

As you are tuned to the Mediaworks multiplex you need to try

rb-download -v -a 1 -f /root/channels1.conf -b $HOME/mheg 1300

1200 is TV One which is on the TVNZ multiplex.

Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat APAC as a Technology Evangelist and Portfolio Architect. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.

TechnoGuy001

853 posts

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#385942 29-Sep-2010 16:52

Ah that was it, thanks.

Where do you find these Service ID's?

solorvox

51 posts

Master Geek

#474113 25-May-2011 19:54

I don't see a way to edit my original post,but I've update to version 0.3.5.

Changes:

* Fixed bug with multi-day listing crossing midnight because EPG splits
shows into two listings.

* Added code to "guess" show category by looking for keywords in
title/descriptions (not on by default, you must run with -g to enable
guessing)

* Added more series metadata to sample file.

Thanks for your feedback.
sV

valtam

396 posts

Ultimate Geek

#637684 8-Jun-2012 10:13

Whats the easiest way of grabbing an epg, importing it into XBMC in Linux (Ubuntu)?
TVHeadend is the backend. TV Card is a DVB-T Hauppauge HVR 2200. Thank you.

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solorvox

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Master Geek

#637697 8-Jun-2012 10:46

valtam: Whats the easiest way of grabbing an epg, importing it into XBMC in Linux (Ubuntu)?
TVHeadend is the backend. TV Card is a DVB-T Hauppauge HVR 2200. Thank you.

I'm sorry, I don't have any experience with XBMC or TVHeadend. I use this for MythTV so I can only tell you about how that works.

The readme.txt has some details and examples. But basically you setup a cron job to run once per day, that job launches redbutton (MHEG stream extractor) for 30-60 seconds. The MHEG stream data is then fed into the MHEG2XMLTV script which makes an XMLTV formatted XML file. This is then imported into mythtv via mythfilldatabase.

Hope this helps.

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