EPG cannot show Chinese - TV (air) (ver. 3.3.110)

Chan Tai Man

I live in Hong Kong. However, the EPG cannot show Chinese using brower. Only show english.

Any idea.

Thanks

Adam Sutton

Does your EPG provider provide the information in Chinese? TVH does not do translation, it merely allows selection from the provided languages (where available). Though I guess its not unreasonable to assume that signals in Hong Kong would include a Chinese set.

Can you send me your .hts/tvheadend/epgdb.v2 file (you'll need to stop TVH first).

Adam

Chan Tai Man

Hong Kong TV is include a Chinese. I use tv_grab_dvb to grab the file. It inlcude Chinese set. Please refer attached file. However, tv_grab_dvb cannot handle "space". Some Chinese Program name are miss. I also send the epgdb.v2 to you.

In tvheadend set Default Language to "Chinese"

What is the format for .v2 and how to open it?

Thank you for your help.

Adam Sutton

The EPG DB file is a binary serialized version of the standard TVH configuration format (or nearly), you can extract it to a more human readable format using the epgdump script provided with the source code:

./support/epgdump PATH_TO_DB_FILE

From what I can see your DB only contains information retrieved from the DVB network (EIT) and not anything you've tried to insert using XMLTV. However this EIT data only appears to include the English data, which is probably why you don't yet have any chinese.

I ran the attached XMLTV file through the parser and it appeared to correctly extract and store the chinese strings.

One thing I don't understand is if you're using tv_grab_dvb to pull the EPG data (presumably with TVH offline) how that is managing to get Chinese strings when TVH cannot. There really should be no need to use tv_grab_dvb as all the important functionality of that script should already exist inside TVH.

Adam

Chan Tai Man

If the important functionality of that script should already exist inside TVH. I don't know why EPG cannot show Chinese in TVH.

However, I modify below file in tv_grab_dvb
dvb_text_iconv.c line 56
//[0x11] = {encoding_fixed, "ISO-10646/UCS2"}, // FIXME: UCS-2 LE/BE ???

[0x11] = {encoding_fixed, "UTF-16BE"}, // hong kong 0x11 is UTF-16BE

let the program can grab Chinese into the XMLTV fiel.

According to previous file. THV only grab six channels and tv_grav_dvb can get 11 channels

Thanks

Adam Sutton

Ah OK,

yes it looks like TVH does not include the conversion routines for the Chinese encoding. I'll see if this can be looked at.

But that doesn't explain why the XMLTV input is not being loaded as I think it should. Try disabling all OTA EPG sources (EIT etc...), stop TVH, remove the EPG DB file and then restart. See if it then loads the XMLTV properly.

Adam

Chan Tai Man

Disabling all OTA EPG sources (EIT etc...), stop TVH, remove the EPG DB file and then restart. Still only grab 6 channels' EPG and cannot grab other 5 channels. Also cannot show Chinese.

updated EPG DB file attached

Adam Sutton

I really don't understand this. That DB file still only contains data from EIT and nothing from XMLTV. What debug output do you get when the XMLTV script runs?

Adam

Chan Tai Man

How to see the debug output and where to run the XMLTV srcipt?

Please advise - I will try it.

Thanks

Chan Tai Man

Cannot enable grabber module. Why
See attached.!!

Adam Sutton

I don't fully understand? But if you're saying the only thing in the drop-down is "Disabled", that means it couldn't find the XMLTV scripts. They must be in the PATH and begin tv_grab_ for TVH to find them (or you must have tv_find_grabbers in the path).

Adam

Chan Tai Man

The drop-down only show "Disabled". Where can I find the XMLTV scripts? Where is the path? I complie from github https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend. Is the build included the XMLTV script or I need to download the tv_grab_.

Thanks

Adam Sutton

XMLTV is not provided with TVH, however if you install it via the debs it will most probably pull them in.

IF you've done the install manually then you will need to install XMLTV manually as well, sudo apt-get install xmltv-utils. However I thought you already had XMLTV since you provided output from an XMLTV script? Or have you only got that locally available and not in the system path?

Adam

Chan Tai Man

After install xmltv-utils. I can select tv_grab* in the Web. However, no tv_grab suitable for Hong Kong TV. I can use tv_grab_dvb srcipt to output XMLTV file. Where is the path TVH can use the XMLTV file.

Thanks

Adam Sutton

If you have a local XMLTV script (tv_grab_dvb in this case) it must be located somewhere in the PATH that is set at the time TVH is started. Then it should be listed along with the other scripts.

Adam

Chan Tai Man

Thanks

When TVH used the script output the XMLTV file. Where can I find the XMLTV file.

Adam Sutton

No file is created the output from the script is simply read directly by TVH.

Adam

Chan Tai Man

Thanks

Chan Tai Man

Adam,

I put tv_grab_dvb in the path /usr/bin. However, I cannot find tv_grab_dvb script in EPG Internal Grabber. How to use tv_grab_dvb XMLTV for THV use.

Thanks

Adam Sutton

Hmmm,

Can you check that tv_grab_dvb responds to the following:

tv_grab_dvb --capabilities
and

tv_grab_dvb --description

Also can you check if you have the tv_find_grabbers script installed and if so what does it output?

Adam