Mailing List Archive: mythtv and tv_grab

mythtv and tv_grab_sn

Oct 11, 2002, 1:40 PM

Post #1 of 3 (1661 views)

I'm in Denmark and have sofar only been able to use the livetv feature
of mythtv.

However I recently saw that xmltv has gained a tv_grabber for
norway/sweden (tv_grab_sn) and the source it uses also provides danish
tv listings.

I've been playing around with it, but mythfilldatabase doesn't work with
it at all, first off - atleast on my system, the option --output causes
it to fail and I have been working around that by manually running
tv_grab_sn > tmpfile. it also lacks <channel> tags and I have been
adding those manually to allow mythfilldatabase to add the channels to
mysql and thats as far as I have come, no program information is added
to the database.

So - I've been wondering if someone else have worked on it too, maybe
even gotten it to fill a database - if so, I would love to hear about
it.

Best regards,

Brian

Re: mythtv and tv_grab_sn [ In reply to ]

JensLH at adslhome

Oct 11, 2002, 10:57 PM

Post #2 of 3 (1631 views)

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I've done a crude perl script that fills my database (DR1 and TV2 only) - it
works for me, so I don't use the xmltv stuff.

/Jens

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Lund Larsen" <brian@cze.dk>
To: <mythtv-dev@snowman.net>
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 10:40 PM
Subject: [mythtv] mythtv and tv_grab_sn

> I'm in Denmark and have sofar only been able to use the livetv feature
> of mythtv.
>
> However I recently saw that xmltv has gained a tv_grabber for
> norway/sweden (tv_grab_sn) and the source it uses also provides danish
> tv listings.
>
> I've been playing around with it, but mythfilldatabase doesn't work with
> it at all, first off - atleast on my system, the option --output causes
> it to fail and I have been working around that by manually running
> tv_grab_sn > tmpfile. it also lacks <channel> tags and I have been
> adding those manually to allow mythfilldatabase to add the channels to
> mysql and thats as far as I have come, no program information is added
> to the database.
>
> So - I've been wondering if someone else have worked on it too, maybe
> even gotten it to fill a database - if so, I would love to hear about
> it.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brian
>
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Re: mythtv and tv_grab_sn [ In reply to ]

stefan at gorling

Oct 12, 2002, 12:48 AM

Post #3 of 3 (1624 views)

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Dear Brian,

I was not aware of that dagenstv provided danish listings, so i didn't
add it to the grabber when I wrote it, sorry. The reason for not adding
<channel>-info was that in Sweden the channel numbering is dependant on
the carrier used (i.e. they're different if you use terrestial and cable).

I've patched mythfilldatabase so that it uses manually entered channel
information when none is available and maps the channels based on their
names in the channel-table and the program-xml. I'll try to send you the
patch when I get back to town early next week.

/Stefan

>I'm in Denmark and have sofar only been able to use the livetv feature
>of mythtv.
>
>However I recently saw that xmltv has gained a tv_grabber for
>norway/sweden (tv_grab_sn) and the source it uses also provides danish
>tv listings.
>
>I've been playing around with it, but mythfilldatabase doesn't work with
>it at all, first off - atleast on my system, the option --output causes
>it to fail and I have been working around that by manually running
>tv_grab_sn > tmpfile. it also lacks <channel> tags and I have been
>adding those manually to allow mythfilldatabase to add the channels to
>mysql and thats as far as I have come, no program information is added
>to the database.
>
>So - I've been wondering if someone else have worked on it too, maybe
>even gotten it to fill a database - if so, I would love to hear about
>it.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Brian
>
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