[mythtv] DirectTv, etc.

[Robert Kulagowski]

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> > > 3) This has NOTHING to do with mythtv, but absolutely the  
> > > > worst thing about 
> > > using directv with MythTV is that zap2it's channel guide 
> > system has *no* 
> > > ability to get pay per view movie information.. I have been 
> > trying to 
> > > figure out how to appropriately query www.directv.com 's 
> > site for PPV 
> > > information.. This is, as I understand, totally a 
> > zap2it.com / xmltv 
> > > issue.. but it still hurts me deeply..
> > 
> > I'm going to take a shot dealing with tonight so if you have any
> > ideas/comments about parsing the directv listings please post 
> > or email me
> > (use ray@sonictech.net address rather than maillists@...).
> 
> Why use zap2it when you can get guide data from TVGuide?
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OK, I think I mis-read the question.  I don't have DirecTV, and
didn't know that the PPV channels were < 200, and that TVGuide
doesn't have the information either.

Howabout using the JPAG scripts, originally for Tivo.
http://www.geocities.com/paglierani/

Looking at showlist.jpg (it's actually a text file)

I can see, for example, that "All about the Benjamins" is "PR48", and
PR48 is mapped to PPV142:
<snip>
adp PR48 A001496db {All About the Benjamins} "1 368 133 32 34 40 41
105 114 167 371" "2002" "Cube|Ice Epps|Mike Mendes|Eva Flanagan|Tommy
Chaplin|Carmen {Miller|Valarie Rae} {Smith|Roger Guenveur}
{Hall|Anthony Michael} Giaimo|Anthony Chase|Jeff Salvano|Gino
Brooks|Evelyn" {Ice Cube & Mike Epps ('Friday,' 'Next Friday') team
up as a solid bounty hunter and a slippery con man caught up in a
multi-million dollar Miami diamond heist.} "4"

ads 0 PPV142 12000 48600 5880 PR48

Now, as to what all that's supposed to mean, I guess you can read the
code on the page and determine how to map it to something you can
use.

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