[mythtv-users] Anyone using the new XMLTV grabbers (Atlas, Guardian, TVGuide) in MythTV?

Mike Bibbings mike.bibbings at gmail.com
Thu Jan 9 16:48:27 UTC 2014


On 09/01/14 16:21, Stuart Morgan wrote:
> On Thursday 09 Jan 2014 16:08:54 steve.goodey at openreach.co.uk wrote:
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Mike Bibbings Sent:
>>> I have been using the Atlas (tv_grab_uk_atlas) grabber on mythtv since
>>> September 2013 with no problems on two different sources Freesat and
>>> Freeview.
>> Mike, Can I ask how you are getting the data from Atlas into Mythtv? I
>> wasn't aware it was a supported XMLTV feed.
> All XMLTV Baseline compliant xmltv grabbers are supported.
>
> There's been some discussion about forking the atlas grabber so that we might
> improve the data it provides. The present atlas dev has flat out refused to do
> things like marking all programs on an HD channel as HD, instead insisting
> that the Atlas data be passed through untouched. The old uk_rt grabber did a
> number of fixups on the data that served a practical purpose for end-users.
>
> We also need to negotiate that API key restriction with
> Metabroadcast/PressAssociation as it's problematic.

Stange, I am seeing programs marked as HD (in mythweb) using latest 
version of tv_grab_uk_atlas e.g.

tv_grab_uk_atlas --version
XMLTV module version 0.5.63
This is tv_grab_uk_atlas version 1.14, 2013/12/20 14:57:41


Mike

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