[mythtv] NOTICE: XMLTV support changes

[Paul Harrison]

Stuart Morgan wrote:
> In the next few days I'm planning to commit a bunch of changes to the XMLTV 
> grabber handling which is guaranteed to break things for a handfull of 
> people. So this is an advanced warning and an explanation of what you need to 
> do.
>
> The changes will remove any grabber or country specific fixups (hacks) from 
> mythfilldatabase. From now on we will treat every grabber according to 
> the "capabilities" it claims to support.
> http://xmltv.org/wiki/xmltvcapabilities.html
>
> The XML output from the grabber will be expected to comply with the XMLTV DTD 
> 0.5 meaning that any data in the wrong fields, incorrectly formatted or 
> missing won't be imported correctly into the programme guide.
> http://xmltv.org/wiki/xmltvfileformat.html
>
> Only generic fixups of data will be allowed in mythfilldatabase, any other 
> problems will have to be addressed it the grabber itself.
>
> So if you are using a grabber which isn't contained in the current xmltv 
> release (0.5.45) you should contact the author. Ask if it is compliant to the 
> current DTD and supports the --capabilities argument.
>   
Does the Radio Times grabber for the UK support the --capabilities 
switch? I have what would appear to be the latest version available on  
gentoo (0.5.45) and it says 'Unknown option: --capabilities' :-(

Paul H.