[mythtv-users] Where to start?

Damian Surr damian at gingermagic.com
Tue Jan 9 13:45:46 UTC 2007


> On 09/01/07, Damian Surr <damian at gingermagic.com> wrote:
>   
>>> On 09/01/07, Damian Surr <damian at gingermagic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Right, the Nota-T-500 sounds like a good card, but a bit beyond my Linux
>>>> capabilities at the moment. I think I'd be wanting to use EIT too. Is
>>>> there any reason that you don't Peter?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I get all the schedule info I need from mythfilldatabase /
>>> tv_grab_uk_rt - it doesn't include the radio channels, but I'm not
>>> fussed about those. I don't know if I'm missing any extra detail, or
>>> timeliness, though...
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>       
>> Right, I probably need to have MythTV set up to know what you're talking
>> about :-) I wouldn't know mythfilldatabase from EIT if I saw them both
>> walking down the street.
>>     
>
> mythfilldatabase is a scheduled (usually daily) task which calls a
> 'grabber' script (in my case tv_grab_uk_rt) to download listings data
> from an internet source - in this case, radiotimes.com. The RT data is
> enriched with reviews, rather than just the programme descriptions
> from the broadcaster, which I personally like a lot (others may well
> have the opposite view).
>
> EIT is the over-the-air protocol on DVB-T for listings information,
> which Myth can grab as often as you want it to.
>
> Peter
>   
Sounds great. I'll be sure to try to get that set up once I've got Myth 
running and try both options.

Damian


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