[mythtv-users] mythtv users in the UK - EPG
David
myth at dgreaves.com
Tue Jun 1 17:07:04 EDT 2004
Charlie Brej wrote:
> Nicholas Devenish wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> How much info do you get? I can only get the program names and times
>> (no descriptions or anything) - can you get more information?
>>
>> I found that tv_grab_uk_rt has a -slow option, but how do I get
>> mythfilldatabase to pass that to it? Will that give me more program
>> details?
>
>
> Yes it will. It used to be the case that I had to edit the
> tv_grab_uk_rt executable but now you can just pass '--graboptions
> "--slow" ' on the command line.
I was going to post an 'oops' to my mail
But looking at the code I think I see a bug...
if you use the --graboptions it concatenates it to the source grabber
and then does a text comparison with the expected grabber names so it
will always fall through to:
...
else
{
isNorthAmerica = true;
command.sprintf("nice %s --days 1 --offset %d --config-file '%s' "
"--output %s", xmltv_grabber.ascii(),
offset, configfile.ascii(), filename.ascii());
So it looks like it will always just get --days 1 if you use
--graboptions (unless --graboptions has --days 1 and the parser uses the
1st arg, not the 2nd)
Hmm. Let me know if it breaks - actually, make that when ;)
> The slow option will make the grabber run for about an hour per day it
> fetches. I like to refresh a few days ahead and fetch about 6 days
> every day so it would run from 4am till 10am. So instead I run each
> day fetch in parralel.
each day I pull 3x 1 day grabs in cron:
* tomorrow - last minute refresh
* today +7 - usually solid a week ahead (no "to be announced"s)
* today +13 - gives a good idea whats coming (some tbas, often films
but usually series (eg farscape!) are known)
David
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