[mythtv-users] XMLTV is Broken in North America

Mark Blair mark at cfug.com
Tue Jul 1 18:54:36 EDT 2003


More to the point maybe its time to evaluate a longer term solution to
providing sustainable high quality xml tv feeds globally.

I've been thinking a lot about this as I've struggled over the past week to
keep up with the Australian based listings sites.  To the point I think one
of the Australian listing providers actually has code in their listings site
that formats pages differently every single request to try and prevent _any_
sucking of their data.

The only solution I have come up with so far is to build a web based
collaborative tv listings site that people can actively update for other
good people to share. Therefore sharing the effort of maintaining our own tv
listings worldwide. It wouldn't be _too_ hard to build such a system that
allowed this then spat the stuff out in xml format. My questions is if I
build it will people come and contribute listings ... think of it as the "tv
listing borg collective"

thoughts?
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mojo" <mojospam at thegeekclub.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] XMLTV is Broken in North America


> Robert Schultz wrote:
>
> > Just to let everyone know, before we start seeing about a billion posts
> > about it, xmltv is broken in north america.
> > This means you won't be able to install MythTV, nor update it's schedule
> > database.
> >
> > The error you'll see is:
> > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XMLTV/ZapListings.pm line 589
> >
> >
> > According to the xmltv-users list:
> >
> > TV_GRAB_NA is broken due to changes made at zap2it.com.  A fix is under
> > investigation.
> >
> >
> > Until it's fixed, we're out of luck.
> > Is it a good idea to base everything on a single site? (zap2it.com)
> > Isn't there some sort of more dependably, 'open' solution?
> >
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> hmmm.. i think this is a good time to start considering the idea that we
> might need to throw in some error checking that allows myth to change
> channels with an empty database and scheduling to be able to be done
> with just start-time/stop-time/channel-data info for these dark days
> when Zap2it decides they dont like us sucking schedules off of them and
> dont care if they break our software and have no concern for
> compatibility etc...
>
> how say you all?
>
> Sean
>
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