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At 25-11-02 20:36, you wrote:
>And, eh, are there any other (wannabe) users in holland? No XMLTV support
>for local stations :-(

Yes there is at least one :-)
And I wrote XMLTV compatible support for it, just an ugly perlscript that
parses www.tvgids.nl and writes an XMLTV outputfile. You don't need the
XMLTV package, it just runs by itself.

And because of the way the channels are allocated non-conformistic
frequencies, different in each city, I wrote the --xawchannels option for
mythfilldatabase, so you can use xawtv to finetune all stations you want
and import them in mythvt.

The only problem with parsing www.tvgids.nl is that you need a _lot_ of
data to scrape, for a full week only the evening and night shows I download
about 15 Mb in 1100 files. Not nice if you only have a modem or ISDN :-)
Because of that I designed the script to keep a local copy of all pages,
and when you run it a second time (mostly the next day ) it uses its local
cache for all files it kan find.

I am still improving it, if you (or anybody else) are interested you can be
betatester, contact me directly (cut off the "nospam_").

Erik

Citeren Erik Arendse <erik_nospam.arendse@bigfoot.com>:

> At 25-11-02 20:36, you wrote:
> >And, eh, are there any other (wannabe) users in holland? No XMLTV support
> >for local stations :-(
>
> Yes there is at least one :-)

Hoi :-)

> And I wrote XMLTV compatible support for it, just an ugly perlscript that
> parses www.tvgids.nl and writes an XMLTV outputfile. You don't need the
> XMLTV package, it just runs by itself.
>
> And because of the way the channels are allocated non-conformistic
> frequencies, different in each city, I wrote the --xawchannels option for
> mythfilldatabase, so you can use xawtv to finetune all stations you want
> and import them in mythvt.

Yes, I already came to the conclusion that "somehow" other countries seem to
have a nation wide conforming channel layout. There didn't seem to be a
frequency setup screen in MythTV either, so the question arose "How am I going
to tell MythTV?". But you seem to have fixed it. How?

> The only problem with parsing www.tvgids.nl is that you need a _lot_ of
> data to scrape, for a full week only the evening and night shows I download
>
> about 15 Mb in 1100 files. Not nice if you only have a modem or ISDN :-)

Well, getting ADSL (512kbaud), so :-) (as of +/- january)
btw, I hope you already skip images and the such?

> Because of that I designed the script to keep a local copy of all pages,
> and when you run it a second time (mostly the next day ) it uses its local
> cache for all files it kan find.

Wouldn't it be handy to make it possible to download the channel programming
from others? Mix it up with a little 'p2p' so you won't put one server on it's
knees.

> I am still improving it, if you (or anybody else) are interested you can be
> betatester, contact me directly (cut off the "nospam_").

Hmm, as soon as I've decided what kind of config it will run on... :-)

Can't wait till this "hey, you didn't set the cassette at the correct
position"-fumble is over.

Henk Poley <><