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

fago nuppla at gmx.at
Wed Apr 28 16:13:54 EDT 2004


Am Di, den 27.04.2004 schrieb Nils Clark-Bernhard um 23:15: 
> hi there.
> 
> yesterday, the tv_grab_de_tvtoday work fine for me, but
> was awfully slow.
> 
> today, it seems to be broken.
> 
> don't know how it works but it seems to extract data
> from tvdoday-html-pages ... 
> (so every site layout change would break the script, right?)
> 
> so i keep on using my 'modified' tv_grab_de_nxtvepg-script.
> it's much faster than -tvtoday-version, doesn't need 
> to be online and is far away from being perfect,
> but it works.
> 
> if somebody is interested in, grab it at
> 
> http://www.suit4.de/mythtv/tv_grab_de_nxtvepg.bin.tar.gz
> 
> i use to put them to all the other tv_grab-files
> (on gentoo that is /usr/bin/) and create a symlink
> like: ln -s /usr/bin/tv_grab_de_nxtvepg tv_grab_de
> 
> oh, and you need to change the line
> > my $URL_BASE = 'file://home/suit4/'; <
> to your home dir! (sorry, but my perl isn't that good ...)
> 
> maybe one of you finds it usefull ...

of course, looks really nice, thanks.
but i can't run mythtv with nxtvepg in the background. if i do so,
livetv hangs every 2-3 seconds. It seems to me this is working for you?
Strange..

fago



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