[mythtv-users] status of tv_grab_sn?

Simon Lundell simon at ida.his.se
Thu Mar 11 04:24:11 EST 2004


Isn't there a tv_grab_se in the latest xmltv-version? (0.5.30 i think?)
I hav'nt had the opportunity to test it, yet.
//Simon 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Niklas Brunlid
Sent: den 11 mars 2004 09:55
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] status of tv_grab_sn?


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



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