<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Eden</b> <<a href="mailto:rmeden@yahoo.com">rmeden@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 7/5/2007 7:05 AM, Phill Edwards wrote:<br>> Australian users have a look at this which was posted on the OzTiVo
<br>> forum - <a href="http://www.freetv.com.au/media/News-Media_Release/2007-0174_MED_FREE_TV_NETWORKS_USHER_IN_NEW_ERA_OF_DIGITAL_TV_040707.pdf">http://www.freetv.com.au/media/News-Media_Release/2007-0174_MED_FREE_TV_NETWORKS_USHER_IN_NEW_ERA_OF_DIGITAL_TV_040707.pdf
</a><br>><br>XMLTV already has tv_grab_au which can be used with MythTV.</blockquote>
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<div>tv_grab_au as in default xmltv hasn't worked for years. There are three Australian grabbers out there right now that are useful.</div>
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<div>The first uses "wiki style" contributed data from <a href="http://tvguide.org.au">tvguide.org.au</a>. Volunteers fill in the data.</div>
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<div>Another grabber (same code, different config) talks to icetv, a paid-for source of tv data, but it's expensive for what it is and has been quite bad lately.</div>
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<div>The final grabber is a hybrid grabber which uses the basic free volunteer data from tvguide and then tries to fill in extra data from various sources (screen scrapes, etc).</div>
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<div>REAL EPG info for australians would be a huge windfall. </div>
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<div>This is also why we're secretly chuckling at the "chickens-with-heads-cut-off" over the whole zap2it problem; we've had the problem since day 1 and have survived, so you guys in the US have nothing to worry about.
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