[mythtv-users] XMLTV is Broken in North America

John Klimek jmk396 at psu.edu
Tue Jul 1 15:21:50 EDT 2003


0.5.13 was released today, and it works but only partially.

For me (using DirecTV), it is only picking up a couple of channels (about 15
out of 800).

Just have to keep waiting I guess....


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kirby Vandivort" <kvandivo at ks.uiuc.edu>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] XMLTV is Broken in North America


> 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."
> >
> > -- 
> > Lan Barnes                    lan at falleagle.net
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> >
> > I'm sure I don't remember that! I have a good memory,
> > it's just short.
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