[mythtv-users] XMLTV is Broken in North America

mojo mojospam at thegeekclub.net
Tue Jul 1 05:23:30 EDT 2003


what kind of work would it be exactly?  not manually entering things i 
hope?  i dont watch THAT much TV.. lol...


Mark Blair wrote:

> 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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