[mythtv-users] Radio Times channels.dat

[James Fidell]

Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 27/10/2007, James Fidell <james at fidell.co.uk> wrote:
>> The RT channels.dat file appears to have gone walkabout again.  Since
>> this appears to be a reasonably regular occurrence, I thought I might
>> modify xmltv to keep the last sane copy cached and use that in the event
>> that it goes missing.
> 
> The xmltv-users list is the best place to discuss this (I've CC'd the list).
> 
> This is still on my to-do list, but feel free to add this now
> much-needed functionality. I will be adding listings caching using
> HTTP::Cache::Transparent soon to cover the times when the data is
> still on-site, but hasn't been updated. It will also make +1 channel
> support much easier to provide as a time-shifted channel can make use
> of the already-cached data instead of having to pull it from the RT
> site again.

Thanks for that, Nick.

James