[mythtv-users] Schedulesdirect Guide updates? World Cup: Round of 16: 1H vs 2G

[Mike Perkins]

On 02/07/14 11:35, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 07/01/2014 10:48 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>
>>
>>     As far as a more user-friendly approach, my suggestion would be to
>>     get rid of the built-in Schedules Direct support, use XMLTV's
>>     tv_grab_na_dd script for North American users (just like we do for
>>     the rest of the world's users), and then it would just work.  That
>>     said, there are some stumbling blocks to getting to that point
>>     (inertia/disagreement with the approach being the biggest one,
>>     though not at all the only one).
>>
>>
>> Mike, is there a way to implement this on an individual basis, or are major
>> changes involved?
>
> Yes, but at this point I would recommend against doing so.
>
> While MythTV has complete support for using any compliant XMLTV grabber
> (including tv_grab_na_dd), XMLTV lacks support for some of the data that's
> available from Schedules Direct and is actually used by MythTV for Schedules
> Direct users.  Therefore, if you switch to using tv_grab_na_dd, you'd no longer
> receive some of the data your system has been using for a while, and it would
> make your future data a little worse than your past data.  This is one of the
> things that would have to be addressed to make the switch--getting XMLTV support
> for the additional data that's available.
>
> So, the easiest way to get the desired result (most-up-to-date listings data) is
> to just add --dd-grab-all to "Guide data arguments", if your system is powerful
> enough to handle it.
>
Since those of us in the rest of the world seem to be doing okay with what xmltv 
provides, can you tell us what the differences are?

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Mike Perkins