[mythtvnz] EPG on Freeview HD (terrestrial)

[Ross and Jemima Knudsen]

Hi Nick,

You're right, I meant the tv_grab_nz-py script.  I didn't realise this
was the source for the info using that.  I thought that this script
was the web scraper option, my bad.

Well I seem to have problems with this script.  Sometimes (especially
channel 3 and 4) all that comes up in mythweb is a "." for the program
instead of the program name.  In the frontend is similar where it
doesn't have the program data correct, I think it might be blank (I
can't recall exactly as I prefer mythweb to program recordings).  Any
idea why this is happening?

On 16/02/2009, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Ross and Jemima Knudsen
> <ross.jemima at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I happened to be watching a Freeview commercial the other day (a rare
>> thing nowadays ;-)) and I saw something about there being 8 days of
>> EPG available.  Last time I used the broadcasted EPG on the
>> terrestrial broadcast it was only a few hours ahead.  Is anyone aware
>> of whats going on here?  Not to bag it too much but the xmltvnz
>> grabber is not so great and it would be good to get it over the air
>> again (that way I'm not reliant on the internet as well).
>>
>
> I assume by xmltv grabber you are referring to tv_grab_nz-py. Its data
> comes from EIT, and it massages the data to improve it. Therefore you
> won't get any better from EIT.
>
> (EIT->epgsnoop->tv_grab_nz-py)
>
> xmltvnz.exe (which will run on linux under mono) is basically a web
> scraper. I used it for a while. It uses a large amopunt of bandwidth,
> and a large mount of RAM while running. I don't recommend it, although
> IIRC the quality of the data was OK.
>
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