[mythtv-users] Australian TV grabber (tv_grab_au)

[William Uther]

On 16/04/2005, at 2:36 PM, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:

> 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?

I was using the D1 grabber until recently.  I don't think it is the 
least legally dodgy option.  Copyrightable materials are considered 
protected unless you have a license.  With no license, you cannot use 
the data.  People currently use the D1 data under an implied license 
because the data is available on the web.  In court, that implied 
license may only be worth the paper it is written on.

The Australian Community TV guide ( http://tvguide.org.au/ ) is much 
less legally dodgy.  The data there is licensed under the creative 
commons license.  I have a, very simple, grabber for that data here:

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/tv_grab_au_tuhs.html

That grabber could do with a few enhancements: making the configuration 
easier, adding a translation table for the genres so that they come up 
in pretty colours in Myth...  If you want to work on a grabber, I 
wouldn't object to patches :).

Be well,

Will         :-}

P.S.  You could also pay for data: http://www.icetv.com.au/

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Dr William Uther                           National ICT Australia
Phone: +61 2 9385 6357               Computer Science and Engineering
Email: willu at cse.unsw.edu.au          University of New South Wales
Web: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/     Sydney, Australia