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IPTV Simple client for Kodi PVR
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EPG information from SatIP stream #581

Open chaptergy opened 2 years ago

chaptergy commented 2 years ago

I am not really familiar with the RTSP / SatIP protocol, so forgive me if this is only very surface-level information.

Many Sat>IP boxes provide an RSTP-server which distributes the tv data in the local network as a stream. This stream usually includes EPG information within the stream. The VLC media player is able to use this information and display a program guide: image

This addon however is unable to use this information, it seems to only support a separate single EPG file. Thus probably related to https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.iptvsimple/issues/308. It would be cool if the EPG data from the stream could also be used, so a separate file (which is often not available) is not necessary.
Is there any way I could help with this? I'm not really sure how I could provide sample data.

Thanks!

phunkyfish commented 2 years ago

There are several standard formats for reading this information. Unfortunately the mechanism for EPG data for iptvsimple is the xmltv file.

Even though the addon can play that format it can only play the video. If you want to be able to do things like read embedded EPG data then I’d recommend you set it up with tvheadend and it’s corresponding addon. It generally supports pretty much everything.