[mythtv-users] Finally got it up and running, but...

Martina Walter lists at kratzt.net
Thu Dec 25 12:40:40 EST 2003


On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 10:58, Daniel Kleine-Albers wrote:
> On 24.12.2003, at 22:13, Martina Walter wrote:
> >
> > My second problem is not that important but as I live in Germany I 
> > would 
> > like to have a program guide as well. So I installed nxtvepg and it
> > fetches the information and dumps it as xml-file. And stupid me has no
> > idea how to import that file into my database without screwing it up
> > again.
> >
> 
> if the file is xmltv compatible you can use mythfilldatabase for that 
> job:
> mythfilldatabase --help (read this page to get the parameters right)
> 
> for example:
> mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 yourxmlfile.xml

Worked almost like a charm :)

I had to update the frequencies for my channels and dump the duplicate
ones imported from xawtv because they did not match, but now I have a
working epg.

Do you know if "--update" will work with that?

Martina


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