[mythtvnz] XMLTVNZ installation

[Jason Taylor]

looks interesting.. its written in perl

especially the imdb script
http://svn.whuffy.com/index.cgi/wiki/imdb_augment_data

2009/1/6 Dean Pemberton <dean at deanpemberton.com>

> Jason Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Also whats the legal stand point of these.... it seems like hosting a
> > zip file might be seen as distributing where as a screen scraping is
> > person use? not sure, not being a lawyer and all
> >
> There are other ways.
> If you have a DVB-S setup then you can get the information directly from
> the incoming stream.
> epgsnoop would be the tool to use.
>
> What I'd like is something like 'shepherd' which the aussies use.  It
> looks at what channels you have defined.  Looks at ALL the ways of
> getting guide data:
> . scraping official websites
> . scraping other websites
> . community based guide information
>
> Downloads them all and uses some quite cool rules to determine the best
> source for any given show.
>
> It's an awesome system as I'm sure those who have used it will agree.
> It's what the majority of MythTV users in Aus are using I believe as it
> has native myth database support
>
> I've spoken to the developers in the past and they are open to the idea
> of a .nz branch.
> Anyone care to have a look?
>
> It would mean that you could point shepherd at riven, epg.pvr.geek.nz,
> tvnz/canwest websites, your own sat dish, and get the best of all worlds.
>
>
> Dean
>
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