AW: [mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase in Germany

[Torsten Schenkel]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 17:35, Jost Schenck wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2003 09:11 schrieb Steffen Becker:
> > Felix H. Hoßfeld asked me to post his answer for him because of troubles
> > with his account. So here we go:
> >
> > When setting up MythTV in Germany you are facing a problem: The
> > xmltv-grabber (tv_grab_de) for Germany is currently offline. Luckily, Ben
> > Buksch has developed a little python script to download an xml-TV guide for
> > German (and Austrian) channels from TV Movie and convert it to xmltv's data
> > format.
> > (http://www.bucksch.com/1/projects/various/xmltv/)
> 
> Maybe I get something wrong here ... but I think that Ben's script has not 
> been functional for months because TV Movie has stopped making their XML data 
> publicly available. At least it doesn't work for me, and other projects that 
> used this data source have mentioned the same problems.

Works flawlessy here, ever did. I had to disable xml syntax checking in
config.py, but the resulting xmltv files are fine. 

Torsten
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