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I experienced this for a while on my Vu+ Duo. I can't remember exactly why it went away as I was doing lots of experimenting at the time.

Are you pulling the power when you reboot?

Thanks. It seems to get it into the cache I only need edit lib/dvb/epgcache.cpp which seems fairly straight forward. I'll give it a go.

Thanks for your reply. I wasn't necessarily expecting a core developer to respond, just some community/anybody.

When I describe the genre feature it really goes hand in hand with the bouquet and channel organisation features.
Many channels appear in an EPG provided by BSkyB but also in an EPG provided by Freesat. So if we have a bouquet for BSkyB and also a bouquet for Freesat, and then also want to breakdown channels to genre within the bouquet, currently we can add markers, however I'd like to suggest a sort of sub-bouquet.

Bouquet         |  Genre         |  Channel

===================================================

Freeview  (DTT) -> Entertainment ->   1) BBC One

                                  >   7) BBC Three

                 > News          ->  80) BBC News

                                  >  81) Sky News



BSkyB   (28.2E) -> Entertainment -> 101) BBC 1 E Mids

                                  > 106) Sky 1

                -> Movies        -> 301) Sky Movies Premiere

                                  > 315) Film 4

                -> News          -> 501) Sky News

                                  > 503) BBC News



Freesat (28.2E) -> Entertainment -> 101) BBC 1 E Mids

                                  > 106) BBC Three

                -> News          -> 200) BBC News

                -> Movies        -> 300) Film 4

                                  > 302) True Movies

The data for these genres/sub-bouquet are in the EPG data for the platform in the case of Freesat and BSkyB and separated by the channel number in the logical channel descriptor in the case of Freeview.

Really I am after advice from other developers (core or third party) as to where to start.EG. There is no documentation as to how the EPG data is cached so I don't know where to start to expand it for storing CRID data.

For all the details see: http://www.etsi.org/...323v010501p.pdf

A bit disappointing that no one has any comments on these ideas.

I'm going to start by looking at series link with TV-Anytime data.

I am based in the UK so all information I have is based on what is currently used here.

On DTT in the SDT, each service has a descriptor (0x73) for default authority, this combined with descriptors in the EIT (0x76) make the programme crid and series crid. These are used for series record or providing alternative programmes for clashing recordings.

Example:
pcrid: crid://fp.bbc.co.uk/4J62MZ, scrid: crid://fp.bbc.co.uk/KQPS53

Sometimes two broadcasts of the same programme may have the same programme crid but not the same series crid, this may be because one is being broadcast in SD and the other in HD. The series record will ensure that the same version is recorded, the programme crid will be the same though so find alternatives will also work.

Series link recordings should know which programmes have been recorded in a series and so not record repeats (by keeping a record of the crids that have been recorded), but look out for new programmes with the same series crid and record those.

To tie in with this I'd like to add an option to use the EIT to record the programme when it starts, rather than use padding. This should also ensure that programmes that overrun are recorded in their entirety.

I believe similar data is broadcast on Freesat but I have not yet investigated this.

I'd really appreciate someone with familiarity with the EPG and timer code to provide suggestions on how I should approach this?