[mythtv-users] Re:Mythfilldatabase question

Shirley, Mark R MarkRShirley at eaton.com
Tue Jul 8 12:52:50 EDT 2003


I'll give it a shot, but is there a way of writing a log
file, so I can see what it's doing at any point?  I've got a
hunch it shouldn't take this long to download that much data, but
no way to prove it yet.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph A. Caputo [mailto:jcaputo1 at comcast.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:47 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Re:Mythfilldatabase question
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of 
> Shirley, Mark R
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:36 AM
> > To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> > Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Re:Mythfilldatabase question
> >
> >
> > Ok, so how do I troubleshoot it?  Is there a way to log file it?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Alexander P. Petkov [mailto:ap154036 at selway.umt.edu]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:26 AM
> > > To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> > > Subject: [mythtv-users] Re:Mythfilldatabase question
> > >
> > >
> > > Mojo:
> > >
> > > The problem of the original poster is that it takes too long to
> > > download using dialup, not cable connection. I simply offered my
> > > download time (using dialup) as an indicator that 12 
> hours or more is
> > > certainly way too long.
> > >
> > > Alex
> 
> Try running your XMLTV grabber manually.  If you're in North 
> America, the
> command is:
> 
> 	nice -n 19 tv_grab_na -days 8 -offset 0 --config-file
> ${HOME}/.mythtv/<video source>.xml
> 
> where ${HOME} is the home directory of the user that normally runs
> mythfilldatabase, and <video source> is the name of your 
> video source.  This
> command is not exactly the way mythfilldatabase does things, 
> but it should
> give you a general idea of how fast your listings grabber does things.
> (mythfilldatabase actually does the following, at least for 
> North America:
> grab tommorrow (-days 1 -offset 1), then grab today and the 
> next 7 days in a
> loop (-days 1 -offset i [increment i from 0 thru 8])  So, by 
> grabbing 8 days
> at once, you'd actually get a lower bound on the *fastest* 
> time you can
> expect from mythfilldatabase.
> 
> -JAC
> 
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