[mythtv-users] Problem installing mythtv package on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS

[John Pilkington]

On 24/11/2024 15:08, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 1:32 AM Stephen Worthington
> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
>> So where do you get your EPG data from normally in the UK?  It looks
>> like you have the option of using a Schedules Direct (paid)
>> subscription via the new json interface, but are there other free
>> options?
> 
> In-band (OTA) EPG is available, although the
> details and duration are a bit limited.  There is also
> still an individual who is supporting an XMLTV
> grabber for UK freeview with a bit more info.
> 
> The reality is that (good) guide service is expensive
> to curate, and fewer and fewer locations are willing
> to pay for that work and give it away for free, so
> there is requirement either having a subscription, or
> accepting advertisements (i.e. page view payment),
> so XMLTV type applications trying to just
> extract/scrape the guide data from some user
> focused website are being discouraged/blocked.
> And that does not even address the issue for people
> trying to scrape the new websites which use various
> dynamic elements and new UI functionality that is
> now common, making classic simple scraping
> difficult (one of the core developers on the xmltv
> grabber list lamented recently that the time of
> website epg grabbers is approaching its end stage
> in many locations).
> 
> And, of course, we are moving to a post linear
> TV world, where the idea of broadcast schedules
> make less and less sense (with the exception of
> breaking news, and live sports, everything
> everywhere will be on-demand streaming).

For the present I'm still using Freeview EPG in the UK and have 
scheduling data that looks complete until 2 Dec - ie 8 days.  The 
information about content is usually meagre but I get more of that, and 
sometimes-useful recommendations, from my (dead-tree) newspapers.

Years ago I used Schedules Direct but quit because it had no data for 
Radio.  I haven't checked if that's still true.

I just had a games overrun (snooker, not being recorded) that left 3 
separate part-recordings of the following programme, which I should be 
able to merge if I feel it's worth the effort.

Current main system is kubuntu 22.04.1, yesterday's master from the ppa.

John P