[mythtv-users] status of tv_grab_sn?

[Niklas Brunlid]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:01:09 +0100, Per Åge Sørvik 
<peraage at leneogperaage.com> wrote:

> Dan Lawesson wrote:
>
>> I am greatly impressed by MythTV, which has the WAF required for 
>> motivating use of an htpc instead of a regular dvd (and vcr for tuning) 
>> together with my newly purchased projector.
>>
>> The TV-listings greatly improves the functionality, but unfortunately 
>> xmltv does not come with a grabber for Sweden any more. I didn't find 
>> any information regarding the status of tv_grab_sn.
>>
>> Since I didn't get any reply after asking xmltv-developers I skipped 
>> installing xmltv altogether (and I can therefore still truthfully and 
>> not without pride claim that my emacs never has been exposed to any 
>> Perl scripts ). Instead I studied the xmltv DTD and mythfilldatabase 
>> source code to figure out what tv_grab_sn is supposed to output and 
>> what kind of switches it is supposed to parse.
>>
>> The resulting quick-and-dirty reverse-engineered Python script (that 
>> fetches data from www.dagenstv.com) works for me.
>>
>> Would anyone be interested in using my script, or did I just duplicate 
>> some work done by someone else? If my script is to be used by someone 
>> else, I will have to upgrade it from unreadable-kludge version to at 
>> least some alpha-at-least-partly-configurable version.
>
> I would like a copy very much.

<meetoo_alert>Mee too.</metoo_alert)

/ Niklas