[mythtv-users] trouble recording fresh prince of bel-air

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/19/2006 03:51 PM, Preston Crow wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 14:47 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>>On 07/18/2006 04:56 PM, George Nychis wrote:
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>>>There should be a way of modifying the zap2it information either after
>>>it is downloaded and before a mythfilldatabase, or after the database
>>>fill :\
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>>There is.  It's called XMLTV ( http://www.xmltv.org/ ).  (And, yes, 
>>XMLTV works with DataDirect.)
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>Can you be a bit less cryptic?
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>My problem was with Comedy Central's listings, so I wrote a simple
>screen scraper to download the episode information.  After running
>mythfilldatabase (from cron), it runs the screen scraper, and applies
>changes directly to the database.  All I need is an easy way to tell the
>mythbackend that the schedule has changed (mythfilldatabase does this,
>but it would clobber my changes; it might make sense to have an option
>for it to not do any updates, just tell Myth to reschedule (along with
>another option to skip the schedule update notification)).
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>A quick look at www.xmltv.org doesn't show any obvious tools for this
>job.
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Well, that's because what you're asking now is different from what you 
asked before.  You're now asking for a way to run the scheduler.

mythbackend --resched

However, XMLTV does provide tools for working with XMLTV data.

Mike