[mythtv-users] Commercial releases of MythTV?

[Brian May]

>>>>> "Örn" == Örn Hansen <orn.hansen at swipnet.se> writes:

    Örn>   The showstopper, is XMLTV.  I'm in sweden, and the latest
    Örn> tv_grab_sn was sabotaged by the tv guide provider site, and
    Örn> the newest grabber is also seemingly getting sabotage as
    Örn> well.  Why, the given sites are sabotaging this, is just as
    Örn> much your guess as mine... but the deliberate action of
    Örn> stopping xmltv from getting the tv guide, is a fact.  And
    Örn> while MythTV relies on such mechanism ... it's a showstopper.
    Örn> The only solution, if one intends to sell a ready made Linux
    Örn> box with MythTV on it, is to create a site that is updated
    Örn> daily with the given program guides and let MythTV download
    Örn> from there.  In this way, there is no sabotage taking
    Örn> place...

In Australia, you can get XMLTV data, but it lacks details (unless you
don't mind 1200+ hits on the remote server...) and accuracy. The
servers were simply not designed for non-interactive downloading of
the entire program guide for the week.

As a general rule, TV shows here are regularly and deliberately
scheduled to run anything from 5 to 15 minutes late. This means MythTV
will record most of the show, but chop out the last bit.

In MythTV 0.14 you can tell it to continue recording past the
designated end time of the show (I couldn't find the option in MythWeb
though), this makes certain things more complicated though, eg. if you
want to record another program immediately after this one ends (either
on the same channel or different channel) using the same input card.

As a work around for some of the problems, I have tried using manual
recoding, so I can record a number of programs as "one". This prevents
having to work out start/stop times for each one, which are prone to
be wrong anyway. However, I haven't been able to work out how to tell
MythTV "record from xx:xx to yy:yy every weekday", instead it appears
I must manually configure it for each day(?).
-- 
Brian May <bam at snoopy.apana.org.au>