[mythtv-users] 2 video sources for hdpvr

[Karl Dietz]

On 13.10.2013 03:05, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 10/12/2013 8:53 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:42:12 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>> So I have an hdpvr associated (input connections) with a schedules
>>> direct
>>> lineup for directv. But the schedules direct lineup doesn't provide info
>>> for the 700s channels for NFL games.
>>>
>>> So I'd like to use the xmltv grabber in conjunction with with SD
>>> since it
>>> can supply the information that SD can't. How can I accomplish this? In
>>> mythtv-setup it looks like a 1-1 mapping between capture device and
>>> video
>>> source.
>>
>> I have no idea how Schedules Direct works, but if it downloads an
>> XMLTV file, then it would be possible to use a grabber to create
>> another XMLTV file and then write a script to extract bits from it and
>> insert them into the other XMLTV file using the XMLTV tools or Python.
>> For a long while here in New Zealand we had the TV1 channel
>> broadcasting BBC World overnight, and our XMLTV grabber script scraped
>> BBC World web page and merged that data into the grabbed XMLTV
>> wherever it found "BBC World".
>
> That's the only possible way to do what you want. Use the Schedules
> Direct XMLTV grabber to pull data to a file, and then write your own
> pseudo-grabber to merge the two.

or create a proper grabber for the 700s channels and use
tv_grab_combiner.

a proper grabber can be very simple, see e.g.
http://xmltv.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmltv/xmltv/grab/fr_kazer/tv_grab_fr_kazer?view=markup

Regards,
Karl