[mythtv-users] xmltv grab_uk_rt or EIT data, which is the best option?

drbob drbob at gmx.co.uk
Wed Oct 4 10:27:16 UTC 2006


Hello,

I've recently set up a mythtv back end (using mythweb as a front end 
until I get PC for the living room). Looking at the radio times xmltv 
data, it appears to provide info on whether a show is a repeat and a 
"series id" number for each show, which doesn't currently appear in the 
EIT over the air data.

Does this extra information help mythtv scheduling? There don't appear 
to be unique "program id" numbers in the radio times data (which would 
be the most useful for scheduling and detecting duplicates). I'm 
currently using the EIT data as I like the idea of dynamic rescheduling 
if a program gets delayed, does mythtv do this (I thought I read 
somewhere it does but can no longer find that page...)?

Any advice/opinions on which source of schedule data is best to use at 
present would be welcome. I'm running 0.19 as there is no 0.20 package 
for debian stable yet.

regards,

drbob


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