[mythtv-users] TV Movie's .xml.tvm format to fetch German XMLTV

[Ben Bucksch]

TV Movie used to have XML files with German TV listings on a public 
webserver with a non-published URL [2], where their app Clickfinder gets 
the data from. I liked the XML source format and the rich data they 
provide: short and long description, short critique, explicit marking of 
movies, actor and role names etc.. Half a year ago, I wrote a grabber 
[1] for that, mapping all that to XMLTV. A number of MythTV- and 
FreeVo-users were using it, that's why I cc these lists.

They weren't happy about the grabber, and it seems that they switched 
the compression format. It used to be gzip (.xml.gz), but now there are 
only files with the file extension .xml.tvm. I don't know how to 
uncompress it - I already tried gzip, bzip2, zip, tar and rar, none worked.

If any of you is interested to keep the grabber working, I'd appreciate, 
if you could figure out how to decompress the .tvm files.

Thanks,

Ben

P.S.
Please follow-up to the XMLTV dev list.
Note that I cannot give user support for that grabber.

[1] <http://www.bucksch.org/1/projects/various/xmltv>
[2] 
<http://tvmovie.kunde.serverflex.info/onlinedata/xml-gz/20040104_001.xml.tvm> 
(adjust date)