[mythtv-users] mythtv users in the UK - EPG

[Nick Craig-Wood]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:18:05PM +0100, Mark wrote:
> > I've been using tv_grab_dvb which grabs the 8 day schedule as
> > broadcast by Crystal Palace...  It works very well...
> >
> >   http://www.darkskiez.co.uk/dvbepg.html
> >
> > I basically run
> >
> >   ./tv_grab_dvb -d -t 60 > schedule.xml
> >   tv_sort schedule.xml > schedule_sorted.xml
> >   mythfilldatabase --no-delete --file 2 -1 schedule_sorted.xml
> 
> Is there any special reason to run tv_sort? or is this just tidying up the
> output?

You don't need to run tv_sort, no.  However it helps with debugging
(because it canonicalises the output - you can diff it etc) and it
also checks it is valid xmltv.

> (was going to ask whether you've been having problems with particular
> international characters from the grabber, but just noticed a new version on
> the site - with some fixes from yourself - so I'll give that a go
> first!)

Yes, the grabber needed a bit of patching before the output would go
through tv_sort!

-- 
Nick Craig-Wood
ncw1 at axis.demon.co.uk