Online EPG

[aplok]

Re: Online EPG

here you will be happy

try this:

__http://www.rytec.be/tools/crossepgsources.gz

[den123]

Re: Online EPG

dose the spiderbox epg work

[sjamesamuel]

Re: Online EPG

dose the spiderbox epg work

They use the same rytec sources as crossepg. I already implemented the option to download and use them.

[Gogoli1]

Re: Online EPG

I have crossepg installed and I can download at least for 7 days epg

[kalpikos]

Re: Online EPG

Hello

I noticed that my box needs about 10 minutes to download crossepg for all satellites I have.
Is there a way to download by my self on my pc the crossepg file directly from a web page and then to put it into my HDD of the receiver?
I want to do that because when the crossepg is downloading you can't change channel and is a little annoying.

[sjamesamuel]

Re: Online EPG

/usr/crossepg/providers/ contains the paths from which it downloads for each provider.
They are in the form:

epg_url_0=http://...gz

Maybe this would work if you replace the url with a local file path.

But I think parsing the epg files and mapping them to channels would still take some time.

[aplok]

Re: Online EPG

--- optimizing epg

when downloading

epg_url_0=http://...gz

for de it fr, you can notice:
- there are pretty big files (xml ...)

and their content are redundant !

so, it comes to me the idea to merge those needed into one (sort -u),
while will take place of the one of them,
for crossepg

this can reduce xml size, and crossepg parsing

[sjamesamuel]

Re: Online EPG

xml (like normal text) is compressed to about 10% of its size (about 2MB for big providers).
What redundancy are you referring to?

[aplok]

Re: Online EPG

... What redundancy are you referring to?

let's assume the fr.xml epg :

it contains some german channels like zdf ab3 ...

and all those are redundant with those from ge.xml .

[sjamesamuel]

Re: Online EPG

let's assume the fr.xml epg :

it contains some german channels like zdf ab3 ...

and all those are redundant with those from ge.xml .

I see, but I think this is a very small percentage, and not simple to do due to how it's implemented.

Here is an entry in the epg file:

  <programme start="20131105103500 +0100" stop="20131105113000 +0100" [B]channel="Italia1.it"[/B]>
    <title lang="it">DR House - Medical Division</title>
    <sub-title lang="it">[Drammatico]  97 secondi (Ep. 3)</sub-title>
    <desc lang="it">I candidati a formare la nuova squadra di House sono diventati 10; House (Hugh Laurie) decide di dividerli in due squadre...'</desc>
  </programme>

After entries are parsed, they are mapped to service references (1:0:0...) using another file which has mapping from service id (in bold above) to the service reference.

Repeated channels have different service references so they have to be done separately. Also there may be time shift between different ones.

[aplok]

Re: Online EPG

After entries are parsed, they are mapped to service references (1:0:0...) using another ...
Repeated channels have different service references so they have to be done ...

... ok ... but let's simply see it
just as it is like:

assuming, that each record

<program ...> ... </program>

are rewritten on one line, process this

cat *xml >a.a
cat *xml |sort -u >b.a

ls -lah a.a b.a

and i have here this :

-rw------- 1 70M Nov 2 13:08 a.a
-rw------- 1 28M Nov 2 13:08 b.a

so 66% redundancy ...

redundancy, means that 66 % are verbatimly reproduced into the last 33%

[sjamesamuel]

Re: Online EPG

I don't know which xml files you have, but I don't think it's possible to have all this redundancy due to repeated channels only.
<program ...> ... </program> aren't on the same line. You may be taking unique events from each channel. Try to check how the resulting file looks.

Anyway as I explained before, this is just not possible with the current design of crossepg and the epg files.