[mythtv] Anybody else having "unknown" listings in the EPG?

[Chris]

there was a more recent problem though with zap2it giving a blank page. 
xmltv 5.5 is affected and fixed in 5.6.  I would assume earlier than 5.5
would have been affected.  

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 22:35, Gregorio Gervasio Jr. wrote:
> >>>>> On 17 Jan 2003 21:50:07 -0500, Chris <cisip at sprintmail.com> said:
> 
> >> Yes, see the thread "zap2it listings broken".  I am working
> >> around it by using an older version of XMLTV, which uses older-format
> >> zap2it pages/listings that are correct.  The older listings also
> >> don't have the problem where programs which span midnight (like "The
> >> Tonight Show") look like they end at midnight.
> 
> c> Which version are you using for xmltv.  I thought the earlier versions
> c> were broken by a recent zap2it change.
> 
> 	They were.  As I said in the earlier thread, I'm using 0.5.2
> with a patch.  Almost two months ago, the listings format changed on
> tvlistings2 such that XMLTV (or ZapListings.pm to be precise) broke.
> A new version of ZapListings was released to parse the new format.
> There was another round of changes a few weeks ago which required the
> release of 0.5.6.  In the last few days, the listings themselves were
> broken -- they were missing a number of primetime shows for the big
> three networks.
> 
> 	However, the pages on tvlistings never changed format back in
> November so a quick patch (that Bruce mentions in his reply) was to
> change tvlistings2 to tvlistings in the older version of
> ZapListings.pm.  This still works today and the listings aren't
> missing any shows.  Note that if you revert to 0.5.2, the xmltv config
> file will need to be regenerated.
> 
> 	To confuse things further, it appears that the tvlistings2
> pages have been fixed today so version 0.5.6 will probably work
> again.  (I'm sticking with patched 0.5.2 though.  The tvlistings2
> pages will probably change again.  Also, they still have the bug with
> shows that span midnight.)
> -- 
> Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
> gtgj at pacbell.net
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