[mythtv-users] XMLTV is Broken in North America

Kirby Vandivort kvandivo at ks.uiuc.edu
Tue Jul 1 13:52:12 EDT 2003


fwiw, according to the xmltv forums, 5.13 was released today and fixes
the tv_grab_na script.

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:35:28AM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:39:04AM +0200, Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:28:11AM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > > Listings retrieval might be best pulled from individual channel sites.
> > > each household pulls down one channel (discovery's listings should be
> > > the same across the country, right?) and shares the listings... The big
> > > advantage to this being fewer hits to each listing sight, which in turn
> > > means staying below the radar.
> > 
> > Why not try to push the tv-channels into publishing the listings in
> > xml-format?
> > 
> > It should be in their interest to make the information available.
> > 
> 
> I would expect that they sell advertising space on their channel sites.
> Besides, the general rule for PHBs is, "If it is not expressly permitted
> it is forbidden."
> 
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