[mythtv-users] XMLTV errors (UK)

[Stephen Kitchener]

On Sunday 21 Mar 2010, Mike Perkins wrote:
> Nick Morrott wrote:
> > .On 21 March 2010 12:51, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> 
wrote:
> >> My mythfilldatabase run had errors this morning, I'm currently
> >> re-running it from the command line and it's throwing out lines like:
> >>
> >> http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/1544.dat: Use of uninitialized value
> >> $num_titles in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt
> >> line 2194.
> >>
> >> There are 11 of these so far. Does this mean that I need to update xmltv
> >> or the Radio Times grabber?
> >
> > This was fixed in XMLTV CVS in December 2009 (r1.263) when more debug
> > output was added for empty listings files. This was committed after
> > the release of 0.5.56 (the current release of XMLTV) so users will
> > need to upgrade to current CVS. A new XMLTV release should be out
> > soon, once some issues related to using the latest versions (>=6.00)
> > of the Date::Manip module are resolved.
> >
> > The warning is harmless - there are several files on the Radio Times
> > XMLTV service that are not carrying listings at the moment. A counter
> > was left undefined rather than set to 0, so any empty listings files
> > will have an undef number of titles processed rather than zero. When
> > this information is output, a warning is generated. This error should
> > be repeated for the number of empty listings files your configuration
> > tries to process.
> >
> > On my CVS-based grab this morning, I saw 7 empty listings files
> > mentioned in the debug output:
> >
> > Start of list of channels providing no listings
> >   Bravo 2 (http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/2010.dat)
> >   ESPN America (http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/1543.dat)
> >   ESPN Classic (http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/2011.dat)
> >   Extreme Sports Channel (http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/582.dat)
> >   MTV (http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/202.dat)
> >   Really (http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/1882.dat)
> >   VH1 (http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/293.dat)
> > End of list of channels providing no listings
>
> Snag is, mythweb shows the mythfilldatabase run as "incomplete", and I'm
> missing data for the last two days (ie I only have 12 days ahead instead of
> 14[1]). Does the problem you've outlined above prevent the system from
> exiting with a "successful" status?
>
> [1] I've just seen a trailer for "Life on Mars" for Good Friday, but I've
> no data at all for that date.

Just to add that is a ME TOO to this problem - I have no new data either,  I'm 
missing

4 Music
BBC4
Interactive Sport
BBC2
CNN
ITV1
MORE4

In case that helps...

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