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

[Kevin Kuphal]

Any chance that it is using:

http://www.talent.nl/tvmhome.htm

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Ben Bucksch
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 9:47 AM
> To: XMLTV Devel
> Cc: FreeVo Users; MythTV Users
> Subject: [mythtv-users] TV Movie's .xml.tvm format to fetch 
> German XMLTV
> 
> 
> 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/200401
04_001.xml.tvm> 
(adjust date)