<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Freeman</b> <<a href="mailto:r-mythtv@thefreemanclan.net">r-mythtv@thefreemanclan.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:<br>> We've all been *exceptionally* clear in explaining precisely why it is<br>> that we would -- as the community of this list -- generally prefer to<br>> see discussion of scraping-which-violates-expressed-terms-of-service of
<br>> listings providers --<br>><br><br>Might I just comment as a member of the community of this list that I'd<br>be happy to see discussion on any fair-use technology that allows US<br>users to obtain listings? I won't claim to be speaking as "the
<br></blockquote></div><br>Then go read the XMLTV mailing list. XMLTV is the mechanism and the interchange format. And since there's plenty of material discussing how to integrate XMLTV with MythTV, I'm really not sure what else there is to say.
<br><br>As for the mechanics of running XMLTV, how specific scrapers operate, how to develop new scrapers, and so forth, that discussion belongs on the XMLTV lists/forums. And as a happy side effect, you will be benefiting any other users who make use of XMLTV and may be reading those lists/forums, which includes a variety of other PVR products, among other things.
<br><br>Brett.<br>