[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct DataDirect replacement service testing

[Mark Perkins]

> On 3 Oct 2014, at 2:17 am, "R. G. Newbury" <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:

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> Just to make one point especially clear on this thread:
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> There are TWO different substitute services.
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> Robert Kulagowski's MFDB-JSON replacement uses a different Gracenote data source than the present DataDirect service. The data source has more data (Series and Episode numbers! internal fan-art etc) about the shows and covers a large chunk of the world.

How large is 'large chunk of the world'? Non English language?

> The mfdb-json service itself uses an efficient download strategy, so that you only call for and only get new data. The program is really quite stable and present testing is really looking for corner cases, and load handling.
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> Robert Eden's DD replacement uses yet another Gracenote data source, and parses out the equivalent of the DataDirect service feed. It then translates that into the correct form, and hosts it at a different site. Thus the URL sleight of hand.
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> Both are, to a certain extent, still experimental.
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> Whichever way you choose to move, you WILL have to choose. Gracenote/TMS has talked about killing the DataDirect service for some time, but the timing was always vaque. Until we received notice of a hard date of November 1, 2014. Thus the apparent and not so apparent scrambling. Coding of the two substitutes has actually been going on for quite some time by the two Roberts, so things are not as bad as you might assume.
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> R. Geoffrey Newbury            
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> PS; The 'R.' actually does stand for Robert... there seems to be a surfeit of us around!
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