[mythtv-users] TV Movie's .xml.tvm format to fetch German XMLTV

Johannes Niess linux at johannes-niess.de
Fri Jan 2 14:39:34 EST 2004


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Am Freitag, 2. Januar 2004 16:47 schrieb Ben Bucksch:
> TV Movie used to have XML files with German TV listings on a public
> webserver with a non-published URL [2], where their app Clickfinder gets
> the data from. I liked the XML source format and the rich data they
> provide: short and long description, short critique, explicit marking of
> movies, actor and role names etc.. Half a year ago, I wrote a grabber
> [1] for that, mapping all that to XMLTV. A number of MythTV- and
> FreeVo-users were using it, that's why I cc these lists.
>
> They weren't happy about the grabber, and it seems that they switched
> the compression format. It used to be gzip (.xml.gz), but now there are
> only files with the file extension .xml.tvm. I don't know how to
> uncompress it - I already tried gzip, bzip2, zip, tar and rar, none worked.
>
> If any of you is interested to keep the grabber working, I'd appreciate,
> if you could figure out how to decompress the .tvm files.
>

Can we find up to date xmltv output from nxtvepg somewhere on the net?
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