[mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

[Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)" <michael-mlists at cheshire.id.au>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber


> 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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