[mythtv-users] xml file on Radio times site

[Stephen Kitchener]

On Monday 01 Oct 2007, Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 30/09/2007, Stephen Kitchener <stephen at g6dzj.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I see that  http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat is zero
> > length, just in case anyone else has seen a grabber error.
>
> Yes - it has been like that since the update early on Sunday morning.
> I've already notified the Radio Times and hope it will be fixed in the
> next day or two.
>
> I'm planning in implementing channels.dat caching support in the
> grabber. In my experience when the channels.dat index files goes bad,
> usuable channel data can still be online.


Sounds like a really good idea....