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

George Nychis gnychis at cmu.edu
Sat Jul 22 14:58:33 UTC 2006


Preston,

Could you share your script to modify the database?  I'd like to do this
for a span of time on Monday's and Thursdays on nick at night.

Thanks!
George


Preston Crow wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 14:47 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 07/18/2006 04:56 PM, George Nychis wrote:
>>> There should be a way of modifying the zap2it information either after
>>> it is downloaded and before a mythfilldatabase, or after the database
>>> fill :\
> 
>> There is.  It's called XMLTV ( http://www.xmltv.org/ ).  (And, yes, 
>> XMLTV works with DataDirect.)
> 
> Can you be a bit less cryptic?
> 
> 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)).
> 
> A quick look at www.xmltv.org doesn't show any obvious tools for this
> job.
> 
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