[mythtv-users] Zap2it and rebroadcast cable

Greg Oldendick oldendic at mailbox.sc.edu
Wed Oct 15 00:47:03 EDT 2003


On Tuesday, Oct 14, 2003, at 15:36 US/Eastern, David Meiser wrote:

> I attend a tiny college in Minnesotta where they rebroadcast us Dish 
> Network from St. Cloud, MN.  It's really good service and all, but 
> Zap2it obviously doesn't post the listings for our one network of 
> about 4000 viewers.  I was hoping that someone else had rebroadcast 
> service that had channels all mixed up and could recommend a way of 
> downloading/reparsing the Zap2it data using just good old scripting 
> languages.  I don't have a background in scripting languages, but I do 
> have a friend willing to help and a very open mind on how to work this 
> out.


If I'm understanding you correctly, you just need to grab the channels 
you need using xmltv in the usual way, and then edit the channum and 
freqid columns in the channel table of the database to match your 
particular channel numbers.  I think mythweb will allow you to do this 
pretty easily.



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