Report DVB Manager Week 5

[Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>]

Blog post at http://www.k-d-w.org/node/48

I was able to complete all tasks I wanted to last week. The Scanner 
works completely for DVB-T and supposably for DVB-S and DVB-C. The 
Scanner contains a new method WriteChannelsToFile, too.

In addition, I started work on the EPGScanner that scans in fixed 
intervals for EPG data on each channel. Currently, the data is just read 
and stored in the Channel it belongs to ordered by time. Still missing are:

    * Checking for duplicate events
    * Retrieve event with given id

I'm not sure how I should make the EPG data accessible. Separately, for 
each device? In a central place with merged data from all sources? Any 
recommendations are highly appreciated.

In other news, the author of Coherence[1] (a UPnP Mediaserver), who 
recently became popular[2] for providing a Totem plugin, contacted me. 
We agreed that it would be awesome if the recordings and later the 
actual recorder would be connected to Coherence. He already wrote a 
plugin[3] for Coherence based on RecordingsStore's D-Bus interface. I'm 
hoping that Vala will improve its D-Bus support[4] soon to see it in action.

The next week will be dedicated to EPG data. Fetch it, store it, make it 
accessible.

Last but not least checkout the code:
bzr branch http://www.gnome.org/~sebp/bzr/dvb-daemon

[1]: http://coherence.beebits.net/
[2]: http://www.hadess.net/2008/06/he-does-it-again.html
[3]: https://coherence.beebits.net/wiki/DVBDaemon
[4]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539357
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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl