[mythtv-users] tv_grab_nl

Peter Martens petermartens.list at gmail.com
Sun Mar 5 18:45:58 UTC 2006


2006/3/5, Marcel Janssen <korgull at home.nl>:
> On Sunday 05 March 2006 16:21, Paul de Bruin wrote:
> > I am the author of tv_grab_nl_py and I can assure you that the grabber
> > tries to be as efficient as possible. As noted in the script (but not
> > on the webpage, I will add this later) the best approach is to first
> > run the script in fast mode to grab an overview for 7 days. After
> > this, run the script in slow mode and it will start to fetch info for
> > each programme separately (i.e. for each programme we have to do a
> > page fetch, this is the reason why it is slow). The first time this
> > will take a long time, however, information is cached and on
> > subsequent runs only the information for the new day is fetched. This
> > approach will give you data to play with until the slow fetch is
> > finished.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
>
> Thanks for the information.
> BTW, I ran mythfilldatabase, but no program information shows up in mythtv. I
> guess I have to change something in the channel setup to refer to the correct
> information, but how do I do that ?
> I used tv_grab_nl_gert before and haven't set --compat during the first scan.
> Would it be solved if I do that or is there a better way ?
>
Use the line I recommended.

-- peter


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