[mythtv-users] Manual, or less frequent, EIT crawl?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/17/2010 11:56 AM, Tyler T wrote:
>>> Isn't there some program that reads EIT data and creates an XMLTV file?
>>>        
>> epgsnoop is one that does this ->  https://launchpad.net/epgsnoop
>>      
> Ah, that is an excellent idea. A little hacking to get it to use the
> HDHR tools instead of dvbtune should be trivial, but unfortunately the
> 'dvbsnoop' binary used by epgsnoop does not support ATSC ("currently
> no plans -->  I cannot test these streams").
>
> I'm looking at eitscanner.cpp in Myth's source code, and I see there's
> already a "activeScanNextTrig = QDateTime::currentDateTime();" so
> turning the EIT "marathon" into more of an actual "crawl" might be as
> simple as adding a "+ 3600" to that line?
>    

Well, if you're using ATSC, then you have a much better option:  
http://www.schedulesdirect.org/ .  $20 per year and you stop wasting 
time, save all the power required for EIT scanning ever, and get much 
better quality data that's worth far more than the $20/yr.

Mike