[mythtv-users] Australian TV grabber (tv_grab_au)

[Matthew Phillips]

On 16/04/2005, at 3:57 PM, Ross wrote:
> On 4/16/05, Michael Smith <myth at immir.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> The big drawback with the d1 grabber is that there are no program
> descriptions. The ninemsn grabber has this, and makes it a lot nicer
> IMHO. The d1 grabber has been unreliable at times too, and it doesn't
> have data for all areas, IIRC.

The descriptions are often useful to the software for detecting dupes 
too.

>> 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 (*).
>
> That would be nice :)

I'll second that. The ninemsn grabber seems to not only have better 
data than d1, it also works for us people in areas that d1 don't 
support at all.

> I'm using a ninemsn grabber with a modification date of 21 Dec 2004
> which has a few updates and works a lot better than the old one posted
> on the list in November.

Just curious: what does it do better?

Matthew.