[mythtvnz] tv_grab_nz-py and MythTV 0.20.2

[Steven Ellis]

Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:55:24 Steven Ellis wrote:
>   
>> Just been having some epg grabber issues due to the way mythfilldatabase
>> now works
>>
>> Hadley - How do you cope with the fact that mythfilldatabase now calls
>> the xmltv script for each day it wants data. Do you cache the file so it
>> only gets downloaded the once?
>>     
>
> You need to support the XLMTV capabilities option. If you show allatonce when 
> called with --preferredmethod then mythfilldatabase will only call the 
> grabber once and use as much data is as given.
>   
Hadley - Thanks for that. The missing piece of the puzzle.

> Unfortunately mythfilldatabase still calls the grabber once for each input 
> that is configured. I did implement the cache option which is in the XMLTV 
> specs but it doesn't appear that myth (or any of the other XMLTV grabbers) 
> support it :) I've thought about doing some internal caching to get around 
> this but it hasn't been high on my priority list lately.
>   
Still at most people might call it twice. The problem with missing
"allatonce" support was my own grabber was being called a hell of a lot
more than that.

Steve

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