[mythtv-users] Some XMLTV uk_rt debug questions?

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sat Jan 31 19:05:00 UTC 2009


On 31/01/2009, nospam312 <nospam312 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to solve the following?

These are really questions for xmltv-users:

>  1. When I start uk_rt it says it is using the old style config file
>  skipping - I have tried setting up from scratch again but it is still
>  saying it is using the old format even though I have recreated the
>  whatever.xmltv file?

The old-style config file contains only "channel xyz.com" lines (the
world "channel", a space, and the XMLTV ID for the channel such as
"xyz.com"). Recent versions of the grabber will happily use the
old-style config file, but will use defaults for the new options
available in the new-style config.

Unless you specify the config file to use during configure, the
default is ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_uk_rt.conf, so check you are using the
correct config file when testing the grabber.

A new style config file with a single channel configured would look like:

encoding=iso-8859-1
cachedir=/home/user/.xmltv/cache
title-processing=enabled
postcode=SW1
platform=freeview
channel=bbcfour.bbc.co.uk

The contents (and new options) are populated when running configure
with the current grabber. If you are trying to update the config file
by hand to the new style, make sure you include the extra options.

>  2. After recreating the whatever.xmltv file it now also outputs five
>  badline errors for encoding, cachedir, title-processing etc?

See answer to #1.

>  3. Is is possible to run the grabber in debug mode but grabbing the
>  debug text to a text file?

Redirect STDERR to a file.

Nick

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