[mythtv-users] Re: Fwd: [mythtv] channels.conf-import

[Malcolm Smith]

Nigel Pearson wrote:

>
> On May 14, 2004, at 7:02 PM, Malcolm Smith wrote:
>
>>
>> Attached is a perl script that does what you are looking to do. You 
>> are more than welcome to steal anycode .. I'd rather it was built 
>> into core than a script.. so good ahead.
>>
>> One thing to note is the change  in syntax for the FEC's and others. 
>> Took me a while to get my head around.
>>
>> -malc-
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> ...
>
>
>     Malcolm, thanks for that script. A few comments:
>
> 1) The script as supplied is incompatible with the database in 0.15.1
>    (e.g. the hp_code_rate field is missing, not sure when it was removed)
>
> 2) I suspect it will be a long time before someone writes a C++
>    equivalent to this, and since this sort of thing only needs
>    to be done in the setup program, it is probably a waste
>    having it in one of the myth libraries.
>    How would you feel submitting it (or letting me do the same)
>    for inclusion in the contrib directory?


Hey... could you fix 1? It was obviously written before 15.1 Db. Feel 
free to submit it for contrib. After all this is a community effort, 
standing on the shoulders of giants etc.

I agree with 2. It is going to be a while before/if someone does this. 
What would be really cool would be if someone integrated a script to do 
the scan, setup the tv_grab_xx and then insert the relevant values.

As the script stands it's worthy of inclusion into contrib, but requires 
a heavy document / learning curve to make it work.

>
> 3) Something I have noticed about the linuxtv-dvb-apps scan program
>    is that it outputs some extra stuff to stdout (ProviderID?)
>    that is not written to a tzap format output file.
>    I was thinking that adding another output format to the
>    scan program for MythTV (maybe raw SQL INSERT statements)
>    might be a better way forward than improving your script?
> --

Possibly... I tend to prefer scripts for this type of work. You don't 
need performance, more flexibility of coding.

-malc-