[mythtv-users] Whats the status on German TV Listings?

Johannes Niess linux at johannes-niess.de
Sun Apr 25 07:28:30 EDT 2004


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Am Samstag, 24. April 2004 19:07 schrieb fago:
> Am Sa, den 24.04.2004 schrieb Robert Krig um 09:52:
> > Hi people. Back when I setup MythTV, xmltv support for German listings
> > was broken. This has apparantly changed in the meantime. I checked the
> > xmltv website and it listed germany as supported.
> >
> > So I was just wondering, is everything cool with that, or are there any
> > issues I should be aware of?
> >
> > I'm currently using NxtvEPG for my German TV Listings.
> > Should I stick to that, or does the xmltv grabber provide better
> > Listings?
> >
> > By the way where does xmltv get its German listings from anyhow?
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
>
> I think nxtvepg would be the more reliable solution.
>
> I've not tried the xmltv way, yet, but i thought about it due to some
> trouble with nxtvepg: It is not working properly in the background, so
> if nxtvepg is running mythtv makes problems.

The newest version (from some weeks ago) works correctly in background without 
changing channels while mythtv is recording. It's perfect in my setup with an 
analog card and kernel version 2.6.4. Every 2 hours a cron job dumps the 
nxtvepg database into myth.

>
> currently i'm using nxtvepg manually activated, which isn't the best..
> ;)
>
> is your nxtvepg solution working properly?
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