[mythtv-users] Failed to get TV listings

Rick Laity laity at nb.sympatico.ca
Fri May 21 09:24:09 EDT 2004


If we do have to change to DataDirect I fully expect thousands of us 
linux neophytes are going to be in real trouble unless we get the .15 
release or a lot of hand holding.  It warns us (or used to) that we 
shouldn't be using CVS unless were were supermen. 


> >>>>> Grant Clement Burtis writes:
> [...]
> g> but now when I try to fill the myth database I get the following g>
> error zap2it page format looks okay, but no programs found ( no g>
> available data yet ? ) unretry-able error reading schedule for g>
> 2004-5-21 for station 2 WBBM
> 
>         I looked at the zap2it web pages that tv_grab_na uses for
> scraping and they now say:
> 
>         This page has been temporarily disabled.
> 
> I believe zap2it has warned people that their web site will change and
> the XMLTV authors will not be fixing tv_grab_na.  I think your only
> choice now is to sign up for DataDirect and either use tv_grab_na_dd
> plus some scripts (see mailing list archives) or upgrade to MythTV CVS
> and use the internal grabber (see latest HOWTO). -- Gregorio Gervasio,
> Jr.
> 




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