Sky IT / UK / UK Freesat EPG (2 Viewers)

[Promark]

Hi all,

I have created installers based on 1.1.0 final if anyone is interested in adding series link to MP.


The benefits of Series Link are:

Repeated airings on the same channel are not recorded (as they will have a different series id)
If the title of an episode differs during a series, the episode will still be picked up and recorded.

"Record every time on this channel" records all repeated airings and because it is based on the title, cannnot detect episode where the title changes.



The installers add the following to 1.1.0 final:

Full Sky UK EPG grabbing (this is re-coded and not based on djblu's tswriter)
Series Link capability in the scheduler (records each episode in a series)
Automatically deletes the Series Link schedule after the last episode has been recorded
Quick record menu (See screenshots)


To install:

Simply install MP 1.1.0 final
Then run both installers (one for tvservice and one for mediaportal)

To enable EPG grabbing for Sky in this version, just select the radio channel "EPG background audio". The timeout can be set as low as 1 minute as it only takes about 17 seconds to grab the entire epg carousel (plus a couple of minutes for MP to insert all ~115,000 program entries into the database)


Please note that these installers add new fields into the database so if you want to use them, i'd recommend exporting your current database (in tvsetup). This *may* cause problems if you want to upgrade to future versions. Also note that its likely there will be bugs intially but I will do my best to fix problems as they crop up. Im hoping that Sky Italia will work, but it is impossible for me to test it. The Huffman trees for both UK and Italy are compiled into tswriter.


Ive attached an svn patch file. You only need this if your interested in the source code, or want to compile this new functionality into other versions of MP.






Links to the 2 installers (their too big to attach)

Download Setup-MediaPortal-svn-1.1.0.26100.exe from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way
Download Setup-TvEngine-svn-1.1.0.26100.exe from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way

Hi

I might just give this a try as have just installed 110 final and can't seem to get djblu's working as it was

Does you're installer backup files it replaces? If so where? if not what does it replace so i can backup manually

Cheers

 

[Jay_UK]

Mark,

This is a full SVN - not just separate files - although hopefully Miroslav should be able to tell us what actual files are changed.

I have just installed it - I'll keep you guys informed

J.

 

[Promark]

Mark,

This is a full SVN - not just separate files - although hopefully Miroslav should be able to tell us what actual files are changed.

I have just installed it - I'll keep you guys informed

J.

Hi Jay

Sorry not to sure what you mean by full SVN I just wanted to know in case it went horribly wrong

Yes do let me know how it goes

Also thanks for the reply to the PM so if i understand you correctly you are using MP 110 final with djblu's tswriter from RC2?

Could you do me a big favour and attach the RC2 tswriter.ax you are using as I forgot to back it up before I upgraded

Thanks mate

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

By SVN, it is a "newer"/different version to MePo Final.

So basically I have installed a new version of MePo after Final.

I was running DJ's RC4 files with MePo RC6 (and Final) - these worked fine for grabbing Sky EPG, but did not offer channel number/grouping (I had previously sorted my grouping/number on an earlier version)

If I wanted to perform channel renumber/grouping (ie after a fresh install), I installed MePo RC2 onto my test machine, did it at that version, then exported/upgraded, and finally imported into my main HTPC (running a newer version).

Hope this helps,

J.

 

[jonm]

Sounds great! Will try it tomorrow.

 

[Promark]

Ah I understand now, unfortunately I don't have the luxury of another machine, although I think i have an export I did a while ago I will try and import that tomorrow and see how it goes

Thanks for the info much appreciated

Let me know how it goes with miroslav22's EPG

 

[DJBlu]

Hi all,

Links to the 2 installers (their too big to attach)

Download Setup-MediaPortal-svn-1.1.0.26100.exe from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way
Download Setup-TvEngine-svn-1.1.0.26100.exe from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way

Impressive.

All I'll say is for the huffman tables. If you use the NID to select the huffman table and categories then you can implement this for Australia and New Zealand.

Sky UK is on NID 0x2
Sky Italy is NID 0x13E
etc

so using

2.huffman
2.categories
13e.huffman
13e.categories

etc.

Loading them on demand will save hard coding the huffman tables.

It will allow you to implement other huffman tables in future.

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

I know ProMark has asked (and I'm curious now), do we know which actual files have been updated (save me checking out the SVN and comparing)?

I am/was running Gibman's tuner fix (https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...5/help-test-fix-some-cards-slow-tuning-84024/) - and I'm keen to merge these fixes.

Thanks,

J.

ps - Miroslav22 - where in the SVN is your code located?

 

[DJBlu]

Hi there,

I know ProMark has asked (and I'm curious now), do we know which actual files have been updated (save me checking out the SVN and comparing)?

I am/was running Gibman's tuner fix (https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...5/help-test-fix-some-cards-slow-tuning-84024/) - and I'm keen to merge these fixes.

Thanks,

J.

ps - Miroslav22 - where in the SVN is your code located?

It isn't in the SVN.

The patch needs to placed in this thread so it can be looked at.

Submit: code patches (MediaPortal/TV-Server/etc.) - MediaPortal Forum

He did upload the patch so you can apply it

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ky-uk-uk-freesat-epg-skyepg24thjuly2010.patch

 

[Ragnarok666]

When i was looking through the logs trying to spot what was happening before a crash i keep getting. DJ blu's old plug in managed to grab the data within 1-2 minutes then wait for the time out before putting it in the DB. Does this new one manage to end the EPG grab and start dumping to the DB after the grab is complete or wait for the time out.

the MHW seems to be able to end enf grabbing and dump to the DB before the time out

Some of the DVB EPG's I use else where need longer than a minute to fully grab the data.