[mythtv-users] DataDirect and time shifting

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Henk Poley wrote:

>Yes, DataDirect now supplies it's own listing in some other format. MythTV 
>developers implemented their own reader (some would say they "pulled a 
>Microsoft"), instead of writing an XMLTV converter so everybody could use it 
>via the standard existing interfaces. (AFAIK someone is working on writing 
>the converter)
>
>  
>
The data is available in XML with more information XMLTV provides and 
it's easily accessible.  Why on earth would Myth (or anyone else) use 
XMLTV to pull down Data Direct data?  If you want the data simply parse 
the DD XML why go to the hassle of converting to XMLTV format if you 
don't need to?  Especially when you can get rid of one huge ugly dependency.