Info from Willy (Rytec team)
Some explanation about the new sources.
Firstly you will see they are divided into categories. At least if you updated the importer. If not you will see only a long list which still works.
The division is made by country. In each country you will find generally a Basic file, an additional file and a SportsMovie file.
Basic:
These are the national channels. In the UK it is Freeview. Spain and Italy - DTT (DVB-T) Except Premium
Additional
All the other channels, except Sports and Movie channels for which you need a separate subscription.
So Eurosport 1/2 are include here.
SportsMovie
The Sports and Movie channels for which you need a separate subscription.
If you make your selection for data to import, only select what you really need. If you do not have a subscription to the Sport/Movie channels, do not select these.
Sometimes providers have the national channels of neighbouring countries in their package, so now you can select just the basic channels of that country. Again saving on download volume.
IPTV users, which are only interested in the Sports Movie channels, can only select the Sports/Movie file. Again saving on download volume, and import time.
Now some explanation about the categories
The first category is General, And this needs the most of explanation:
It contains: News Channels, Erotic Channels, AFN, IPTV and Miscellaneous
News Channels:
I think this source is self explaining. Think about the news channels, CNN, Bloomberg, BBC WorldNews, France24 etc...
Most of these channels have an english EPG. France24 exist in French and English version, so it has the corresponding EPG language
In some sources some of these channels have also an entry, if the schedule is found in the local language
Erotic Channels
No need to explain this
AFN
Those who want this, will know what is included
IPTV
This contains the EPG for the FTA channels for which I listed the URL's in this post:
https://forums.openp...ls-service-ref/
Miscellaneous
These are number of channels for which mostly only one source of EPG can be found. Mostly in English. The occur in many different subscription packages, with all the same schedule.
Think about: Fashion, Music Channels (MTVDance/Rocks/LiveHD, VH1, Brava, iconcerts) Some of the exotic sports channels (Outdoor, Autoundmotorsport, Extreme, esports) and JimJam.eu
Local version of JimJam are included in their language. But several sat providers, have the EU version of JimJam, of which I can only find an English version.
Further The categories mostly follow different countries. The different countries are given in the local language. But be aware that in this list I cannot use accented characters. So do not complain about the missing accents. I know.
There is one strange combination: the Netherlands/Belgium/France. This one is explained somewhere above.
The sections Old style, and EPG.DAT have been removed.
The old style files (large files) will be maintained until September 30, 2017. After this data they will be removed, and this links will not work anymore. This means that everyone should have installed the new sources list by then.
In the second half of the sources file there is a duplication so it seems of all sources. These are the xz versions, a new way of compressing which produces files only half of the size of the older gz files. In the future only these files will be provided. (saving on download bandwidth).
I understand that now they are working also on PLi4 and PLi6.0RC provide you have updated the importer to the latest version.
Although,
some of the xz version files do not work yet because the file is not provided yet. This will be done after I disable the old style files.
Most do work however.
So try the new xz files, and start saving download volume from our servers, right now. It helps to keep up the service.
If in your case it does not work, go back to top of the list and select the normal gz files (the sources without the xz addition)
I am interested to hear the experiences of non PLi users with these xz files. And as a non-PLi user, if you have problems, please report this to your image provider, so he can take steps to correct it. (the solutions are available)
EPG.DAT
These links have been removed. These files are normally only used by BlackHole users.
Importing them with XMLTVimport sometimes work, sometimes it does not. So I decided to remove this section from the import list.
I will also inform BlackHole image builders they are going to have to think about providing others ways of importing EPG in their image, as the solutions are freely available.
For the moment the files are still produced. So if you decide not to update, you can keep using these sources. You risk that somewhere in the future this does not work anymore.
Willy
