[mythtv-users] new xmltv grabber for dvb/freesat/sky/mediahighway

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Simon Kenyon <simon at koala.ie> wrote:
> just though i would let you know that there is a garbber for the over the
> air EPG data from sky
> it is based on tv_grab_dvb and includes code from mythtv to handle freesat
>
> it also includes support for sky (AU, IT and UK)
>
> there are still loads of bugs and it doesn't seem to get all the data (yet)
> but it might be of some use to this community. i use it to flesh out the
> info from tv_grab_uk_rt
>
> see: http://www.sf.net/projects/tvgrabeit
>
> it is in the process of being renamed to tvgrabdvbplus; but i have no idea
> when sourceforge will do the rename
> i was holding off announcing here until after the rename; but i asked over
> two weeks ago and have given up
>
> this is not a solo effort. all help gratefully accepted

Am I right in saying this grabs eit data and turns it iinto xmltv
data, with some massaging along the way? You might want to look at
epgsnoop maintained here in NZ for similar purposes.

http://nice.net.nz/epgsnoop/