[mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) michael-mlists at cheshire.id.au
Thu Nov 4 21:26:13 UTC 2004


Paul,

Your script appears to work great for the FTA listings, but I've modified it 
to get Foxtel channels (See attatched) and I get

.
/var/local/tv_grab_au.foxtel/04112004/0.html is too short, removing and 
trying again
.
/var/local/tv_grab_au.foxtel/04112004/0.html is too short, removing and 
trying again

seeminly in an endles loop - can you help?

M.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Andreassen" <paulx at andreassen.com.au>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 1:56 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber


> Hi Australian Myth users,
>
> Here is another version with threading.  It will download each days data
> in it own thread and therefore should be seven times faster.
>
> Fixed most of the common errors.  Uses '/var/local/tv_grab_au' for a
> cache but doesn't yet clean up old files.
>
> This is for Queensland again but the comments explain how to change it
> for other states.
>
> Paul
>
> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:05, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>> The new grabber is doing good work, however I would make a few 
>> suggestions:
>> - show some progress status - it runs for a long time
>> - check failures (I got open failures a few times in open(DETAILS,...))
>> - store the guide in a permanent place (/var/cache/mythv?) because /tmp 
>> does get cleaned.
>>
>> Saying I do not like perl will overestimate my enthusiasm for it, I hope 
>> I
>> did not break anything. Worked for me though.
>>
>> --
>> Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>
>


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