[mythtv-users] Schedulesdirect Guide updates? World Cup: Round of 16: 1H vs 2G
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Jul 2 10:35:43 UTC 2014
On 07/01/2014 10:48 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
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> 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.
Mike
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