Custom Data Grabber including Sky UK Channel/EPG Grabber (3 Viewers)
- Thread starter DJBlu
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New Zealand
- February 23, 2008
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So yeah I got a couple of more questions 
The Lifestyle and culture group has no channels in it and I decided to just remove it but it reappears, I did also read that it has been merged with the entertainment group so I am guessing that something needs to be updated, or how can I remove it permanently? also is there any work being considered to get the sky red button working on MP on via the plugin?
The Lifestyle and culture group has no channels in it and I decided to just remove it but it reappears, I did also read that it has been merged with the entertainment group so I am guessing that something needs to be updated, or how can I remove it permanently? also is there any work being considered to get the sky red button working on MP on via the plugin?
So, to remove a channel group you need to go in to the plugin config page and delete that item from the list of channels, that will remove that group. In terms of where channels go, I never figured out how DJBlu did this (@DJBlu - If you've got the chance to read this, are you able to explain how the groupings work and where in the code and TS stream the data is contained?) so we're kinda limited. I'd like to investigate this further really, but I'm waiting for a new tuner to arrive for dev purposes.
With respect to the red button, the issue here is similar to the MHEG5 'red' button; it requires code in MP client itself and the TVServer to have an understanding of the applets in the TSstream. I think mythTV has the ability to do MHEG5 java applets from the stream but that is the only one, and I don't think there is much appetite from the team due to the limited application currently.
With respect to the red button, the issue here is similar to the MHEG5 'red' button; it requires code in MP client itself and the TVServer to have an understanding of the applets in the TSstream. I think mythTV has the ability to do MHEG5 java applets from the stream but that is the only one, and I don't think there is much appetite from the team due to the limited application currently.
- February 23, 2008
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Great many thanks.
It's a bit of shame that openmheg development never took off it was a promising start....oh well
It's a bit of shame that openmheg development never took off it was a promising start....oh well
Welcome
I think OpenMHEG will happen, but it requires more countries to adopt the freeview spec, it is limited at present. Even in NZ which uses it, we only have the guide via the applets, nothing else.
Sky is a whole different game... I don't even know how it does the code. As its closed source, no one but OpenTV knows the spec I believe.
I think OpenMHEG will happen, but it requires more countries to adopt the freeview spec, it is limited at present. Even in NZ which uses it, we only have the guide via the applets, nothing else.
Sky is a whole different game... I don't even know how it does the code. As its closed source, no one but OpenTV knows the spec I believe.
It's a sad day for me today, I have given up on watching TV in MP after using it for over 5 years and gone back to the original box. The combination of this plugin not quite working reliably enough plus the inability to recieve HD channels I'm paying for any more has swung it. It's a shame because the original box just isn't as good - but at least it works, consistently. Including the red button I will miss the functionality of MP for watching TV and will keep an eye on developments but for now I'm back to that box that the masses use
I will miss the functionality of MP for watching TV and will keep an eye on developments but for now I'm back to that box that the masses use - February 23, 2008
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Odd my tv is working 100% after installing this plugin.....I used to have plenty of no signal etc but after this plugin I have had none of that.
One question how can I contribute to keeping this plugin alive? development? funding or anything else? I would love to see it continue but I am unsure how, I used to develop in anything for Fortran, C, C++, VB etc but since I today work as a Linux and OS X engineer I normally only do bash scripting, so I don't use it anymore but I been keen on assisting where ever I can.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do.
One question how can I contribute to keeping this plugin alive? development? funding or anything else? I would love to see it continue but I am unsure how, I used to develop in anything for Fortran, C, C++, VB etc but since I today work as a Linux and OS X engineer I normally only do bash scripting, so I don't use it anymore but I been keen on assisting where ever I can.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do.
@qvindesland if you want to contribute financially, donate to MP to keep them funding new developments, support for new tuners etc.
With respect to this, the code for the plugins is in my github (Benoire) and then under the main MP repo as custom data grabber stuff. The main MP code is in C# and this includes the changes to TSwriter to make this work with MP and the Custom Data Grabber which does the PID handling. the plugins themselves are in VB.net but it might be useful to convert them to C#.
Potential improvements could be around the handling of non standard channels i.e. box office etc. Currently the plugins use a defined entry point with a fixed length to decode the titles/summaries, by following an EPGcollector and TVE3.5 approach of using the tags, we should be able to get titles/summaries for all channels contained in the stream.
Another point of 'improvement' is to establish HOW djblu managed to get the categories from the stream and auto assign the groups... I haven't been able to sort this out and its bugging me!
Another one, which I fixed in the NZ plugin although not how I want to, is to create a check box that allows you to define the range of LCNs (channel numbers) to display automatically; a range of 1-799 should include all channels within this range and exclude all others... For NZ this was useful as it stopped me getting some of the channels that are hidden by Sky NZ but kept showing up.
Perhaps sort out the throttling and threading issues from the UK one on my github one as that is a mashed together version of different version and decompiled to make it work.
Just some thoughts to start with
With respect to this, the code for the plugins is in my github (Benoire) and then under the main MP repo as custom data grabber stuff. The main MP code is in C# and this includes the changes to TSwriter to make this work with MP and the Custom Data Grabber which does the PID handling. the plugins themselves are in VB.net but it might be useful to convert them to C#.
Potential improvements could be around the handling of non standard channels i.e. box office etc. Currently the plugins use a defined entry point with a fixed length to decode the titles/summaries, by following an EPGcollector and TVE3.5 approach of using the tags, we should be able to get titles/summaries for all channels contained in the stream.
Another point of 'improvement' is to establish HOW djblu managed to get the categories from the stream and auto assign the groups... I haven't been able to sort this out and its bugging me!
Another one, which I fixed in the NZ plugin although not how I want to, is to create a check box that allows you to define the range of LCNs (channel numbers) to display automatically; a range of 1-799 should include all channels within this range and exclude all others... For NZ this was useful as it stopped me getting some of the channels that are hidden by Sky NZ but kept showing up.
Perhaps sort out the throttling and threading issues from the UK one on my github one as that is a mashed together version of different version and decompiled to make it work.
Just some thoughts to start with
- February 23, 2008
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Yeah I agree actually on the question that I asked about removing the Lifestyle group did not work, well it allowed me to remove it but it reappeared after a while suggesting that it's either hard coded into the plugin or during an update it's more template based, I will use that as my first exercise
Lifestyle is an option under the groups section of the plugin, sits below the region selection... If you delete the line there it should remove it, although if you re-install the plugin it will overwrite that as the data is stored within the plugin itself and not outside.