7 DAY EPG dvbviewer

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#19842 3-Mar-2008 14:41

Hi

Just wondering how to get the 7 day EPG working for dvbviewer?
the whats on now and whats next is working fine.

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#114345 3-Mar-2008 15:35

Freeview's DVB-T is only using the MHEG5 standard for their 7 day EPG. The normal EIT EPG is only transmitting the current and next show which is why it's all DVBViewer can pick up as it doesn't support MHEG5.

The only way to get an EPG is to use an external XML file and an application such as XMLTVNZ to scrape the EPG data from the various websites.

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#114361 3-Mar-2008 17:19

I have just worked this out.

DVBViewer + importXMLTV + xmltvnz source = 7 day EPG on all DVB-T channels

importXMLTV is available from the DVBViewer site, and you can find out about xmltvnz by google

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#114472 3-Mar-2008 22:51

One other option, if you have a DVB-S card in your machine, is to pop over to www.gbpvr.com and search the forum for DVBTOXMLTV. I have not tried this program myself yet (will tomorrow), but my understanding is that it will capture the 7 Day EPG from the satellite via the DVB-S card and write it out as an XMLTV file. Could be a useful utility also for generating EPG for Media Centre.

Cheers Mike

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#114506 4-Mar-2008 06:45

One other option is to also use the 7 day EPG (captured off the DVB-S feeds) from http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/epg/ which has several available. I know these are designed primarily for MythTV and you may have to make some small modifications to the data to import this file into other programs.

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#114572 4-Mar-2008 14:16

sbiddle: One other option is to also use the 7 day EPG (captured off the DVB-S feeds) from http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/epg/ which has several available. I know these are designed primarily for MythTV and you may have to make some small modifications to the data to import this file into other programs.

Thanks will give it a go.

So it its not possible to get it via DVB-T yet.

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#114574 4-Mar-2008 14:26

mentalinc:
sbiddle: One other option is to also use the 7 day EPG (captured off the DVB-S feeds) from http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/epg/ which has several available. I know these are designed primarily for MythTV and you may have to make some small modifications to the data to import this file into other programs.

Thanks will give it a go.

So it its not possible to get it via DVB-T yet.

The 7 day EPG is available via DVB-T it's just that most TV applications don't support MHEG5.

The DVB-S broadcasts transmit the 7 day EPG via MHEG5 as well as the DVB EIT format.