[mythtv-users] Australian TV grabber (tv_grab_au)

[Michael Smith]

G'day all.

Well, many thanks to Will Uther for pointing me to his listing page of 
Australian tv grabbers:

   <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/>

Blindly following various HOWTO's on myth installation lead me to 
believe that the Nine MSN tv_grab_au in the forums was perhaps the only 
one around that people were using... this may be quite far from the truth!

I'm not quite sure what to do about this now. Rohbag's d1.com grabber 
looks quite complete and is well written, and is *perhaps* the legally 
least dodgy option (?) --- is this what most people are using now?

(It does, however, need some slight modifications due to changes in 
XMLTV::Ask, and perhaps would benefit from the new gui stuff in XMLTV to 
make region/channel selection a bit easier.)

I'm tempted to just switch to rohbags script for myself.

If there is sufficient interest in an updated Nine MSN grabber I'll 
consider finishing it off and least making it a functional replacement 
for the forum version (*). I recently noticed that requests for pages to 
Nine MSN in the old script go through 4 or more redirections, slowing 
down things substantially --- it is easy to get around this however (of 
course, whether it is *polite* to spoof MSID hashes on URLs is another 
matter entirely).


Thoughts?

Cheers,
Michael.

(*) and then wait for the cease and desist order??



> *NON-FUNCTIONING* experimental code may be perused for those interested 
> -- I'll have a working version shortly and post a message when that is 
> done.
> 
>   <http://immir.com/tv_grab_au>       the grabber
>   <http://immir.com/channels>         channels configuration file
>   <http://immir.com/tv_grab_au.conf>  example config file