[mythtv] Mythfilldatabase & xmltv,

[Laurent ARNAL]

Nick Morrott a écrit :
> On 08/05/2009, Laurent ARNAL <laurent at clae.net> wrote:
>   
>>   Hi Everybody,
>>
>>  I always find that configuring TV Card in MyhTV is difficult for non US
>> citizen.
>>  What I'm usually do is:
>>
>>   1/ Do a first frequency scan to find the channel.
>>   2/ Go to mythweb, and fill the xmltvid column by hand for each entry in
>> Channel table.
>>   3/ Launch mythfilldatabase to fill missing informations (icons, program=
>>     
> s,
>   
>> etc...).
>>
>>  Perhaps miss something somewhere, but what hurts is Step 2 because you
>> don't have a link between channel frequency and xmltv informations.
>>  The only link is the channel name that could be the same, or near the sa=
>>     
> me.
>
> I am planning to implement the XMLTV lineups proposal
> (http://xmltv.org/wiki/lineupproposal.html) from early June onwards,
> which should make configuring XMLTV listings with existing channels
> straightforward. Once support is added to XMLTV, I will work on adding
> support to MythTV.
>
> Nick
>
>   
Seems really a great idea. I already thinks about something like this 
before, but nether take time to do anything about it.
Collecting the channel configuration data for the lineup will be 
certainly the most difficult and long part of the job.
If I can help you for anything, let me know.

     Laurent.