[mythtv-users] EPG info to become available for Australia?

[Alan Calvert]

Bill Williamson wrote:
> On 7/6/07, *Robert Eden* <rmeden at yahoo.com <mailto:rmeden at yahoo.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     On 7/5/2007 7:05 AM, Phill Edwards wrote:
>      > Australian users have a look at this which was posted on the OzTiVo
>      > forum
>     -  http://www.freetv.com.au/media/News-Media_Release/2007-0174_MED_FREE_TV_NETWORKS_USHER_IN_NEW_ERA_OF_DIGITAL_TV_040707.pdf
>     <http://www.freetv.com.au/media/News-Media_Release/2007-0174_MED_FREE_TV_NETWORKS_USHER_IN_NEW_ERA_OF_DIGITAL_TV_040707.pdf>
>      >
>     XMLTV already has tv_grab_au which can be used with MythTV.
> 
>  
> tv_grab_au as in default xmltv hasn't worked for years.  There are three 
> Australian grabbers out there right now that are useful.
>  
> The first uses "wiki style" contributed data from tvguide.org.au 
> <http://tvguide.org.au>.  Volunteers fill in the data.
>  
> Another grabber (same code, different config) talks to icetv, a paid-for 
> source of tv data, but it's expensive for what it is and has been quite 
> bad lately.
>  
> The final grabber is a hybrid grabber which uses the basic free 
> volunteer data from tvguide and then tries to fill in extra data from 
> various sources (screen scrapes, etc).
>  
> REAL EPG info for australians would be a huge windfall. 

And of course there's shepherd: <http://svn.whuffy.com/index.fcgi/wiki>
Now there's a _very_ clever body of work.
   
> This is also why we're secretly chuckling at the 
> "chickens-with-heads-cut-off" over the whole zap2it problem;  we've had 
> the problem since day 1 and have survived, so you guys in the US have 
> nothing to worry about.

Absolutely! Some of the bleating has been hilarious, not to mention the sheer
volume and mania of it all. Welcome to the modern world, America.  Cheers!