[mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

Paul Andreassen paulx at andreassen.com.au
Thu Nov 4 10:15:36 UTC 2004


I don't want it to run overnight.  My Mythtv box is in my bedroom and is
update in a daily cron job.  The maximum time I want it to take is one
hour.  Besides it a microsoft site, I've paid them enough over the
years.

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 03:03, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:26:44AM +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote:
> > Here is another version with threading.  It will download each days data
> > in it own thread and therefore should be seven times faster.
> 
> Thus septupling the load on the service provider.
> 
> Efficiency does not always mean effectiveness: users should careful
> weigh whether the speed of an automated overnight process is *this*
> important...
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra



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