[mythtv-users] XMLTV grabber for Norway/Sweden

[Christian Wattengård]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 11:17, Niklas Brunlid wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:47:43 +0100, Christian Wattengård 
> <christian at wattengard.com> wrote:
> 
> > There has been alot of talk lately about the status of tv_grab_sn and
> > such.
> > Here is a little summary of what is going on in the xmltv scene.
> >
> > * tv_grab_sn is dead. As far as I know the author is not working on it
> > at all anymore
> > * There is a new grabber for Sweden - tv_grab_se - in the new 0.5.30
> > release of xmltv
> > * There is a new grabber for Norway - tv_grab_no - but it hasn't been
> > accepted into xmltv cvs as of yet. I am the author of this grabber and I
> > can tell you that the grabber is ready for release. I'm just awaiting
> > Ed's (the xmltv author) final "go" and then he has to put it into cvs.
> 
> About this, how can I get mythtv to use two grabbers? I live in the 
> southern part of Sweden where we get the OTA Danish channels, and they are 
> not included in tv_grab_se. I will look into this in the weekend (unless I 
> have to work) - it should be possible to transplant some of tv_grab_dk 
> into tv_grab_se...

I think there is a program to splice two xmltv files to one included in
the xmltv package. Or am I completely wrong?

> BTW, is the new tv_grab_no the one that uses dagenstv.com? If so, can I 
> use it in "swedish" mode? dagenstv.com is more complete and has a lot of 
> non-swedish channels as well. OTOH, I though they blocked xmltv?

The new tv_grab_no uses fredag.dagbladet.no so it's not possible to get
swedish info from it.

Christian...