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

[stephen.robinson at zen.co.uk]

It looks like the new format is just a wrapper around standard gzip. 
Have a look at a hex dump. You can see the filename near the 
beginning and shortly before that is the byte sequence 1F 8B. This is 
the start of a valid gzip header. 

Unfortunately stripping the extra data off of the beginning isn't quite 
enough. file then recognises it as a gzip file, but gzip complains about 
format violations. I would guess your best bet is to run it through the 
gzip code in a debugger so you can see where it starts to violate the 
format and then try and work out what else they've done.



stephen.



On 2 Jan 2004 at 16:47, Ben Bucksch wrote:

> 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)
> 
>