[mythtv-users] EPG info to become available for Australia?

[Bill Williamson]

On 7/7/07, Alan Calvert <cal at graggrag.com> wrote:
>
> Bill Williamson wrote:
> > On 7/6/07, *Robert Eden* <rmeden at yahoo.com <mailto:rmeden at yahoo.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     On 7/5/2007 7:05 AM, Phill Edwards wrote:
> >      > Australian users have a look at this which was posted on the
> OzTiVo
> >      > forum
> >     -
> http://www.freetv.com.au/media/News-Media_Release/2007-0174_MED_FREE_TV_NETWORKS_USHER_IN_NEW_ERA_OF_DIGITAL_TV_040707.pdf
> >     <
> http://www.freetv.com.au/media/News-Media_Release/2007-0174_MED_FREE_TV_NETWORKS_USHER_IN_NEW_ERA_OF_DIGITAL_TV_040707.pdf
> >
> >      >
> >     XMLTV already has tv_grab_au which can be used with MythTV.
> >
> >
> > tv_grab_au as in default xmltv hasn't worked for years.  There are three
> > Australian grabbers out there right now that are useful.
> >
> > The first uses "wiki style" contributed data from tvguide.org.au
> > <http://tvguide.org.au>.  Volunteers fill in the data.
> >
> > Another grabber (same code, different config) talks to icetv, a paid-for
> > source of tv data, but it's expensive for what it is and has been quite
> > bad lately.
> >
> > The final grabber is a hybrid grabber which uses the basic free
> > volunteer data from tvguide and then tries to fill in extra data from
> > various sources (screen scrapes, etc).
> >
> > REAL EPG info for australians would be a huge windfall.
>
> And of course there's shepherd: <http://svn.whuffy.com/index.fcgi/wiki>
> Now there's a _very_ clever body of work.


That's the "hybrid grabber" I'm talking about :)
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