On 7/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Calvert</b> <<a href="mailto:cal@graggrag.com">cal@graggrag.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Bill Williamson wrote:<br>> On 7/6/07, *Robert Eden* <<a href="mailto:rmeden@yahoo.com">rmeden@yahoo.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:rmeden@yahoo.com">rmeden@yahoo.com</a>>><br>> wrote:<br>><br>> 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<br>> - <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>> <<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.<br>
><br>><br>> tv_grab_au as in default xmltv hasn't worked for years. There are three<br>> Australian grabbers out there right now that are useful.<br>><br>> The first uses "wiki style" contributed data from
<a href="http://tvguide.org.au">tvguide.org.au</a><br>> <<a href="http://tvguide.org.au">http://tvguide.org.au</a>>. Volunteers fill in the data.<br>><br>> Another grabber (same code, different config) talks to icetv, a paid-for
<br>> source of tv data, but it's expensive for what it is and has been quite<br>> bad lately.<br>><br>> The final grabber is a hybrid grabber which uses the basic free<br>> volunteer data from tvguide and then tries to fill in extra data from
<br>> various sources (screen scrapes, etc).<br>><br>> REAL EPG info for australians would be a huge windfall.<br><br>And of course there's shepherd: <<a href="http://svn.whuffy.com/index.fcgi/wiki">http://svn.whuffy.com/index.fcgi/wiki
</a>><br>Now there's a _very_ clever body of work.</blockquote><div><br>That's the "hybrid grabber" I'm talking about :) <br></div><br></div>