[mythtvnz] tv_grab_nz-py fails to validate

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Bob . <maillists.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hmmmm, looks like mythtv-setup is timing out before tv_find_grabbers
>> > completes hence doesn't present any of them as an option.  Running on
>> > an Acer Revo and the poor little fella is just too slow.  I got rid of
>> > all the other grabbers in /usr/bin and I can now select the NZ grabber
>> > in mythtv-setup.
>> >
>> > Is there any way to configure it to ignore some grabbers (rather than
>> > deleting stuff willy-nilly from /usr/bin)?
>>
>> I remember having to do that now! I don't think there is another way
>> to do it, unless you change the timeout in the source code and
>> recompile.
>
> Couldn't you also modify tv_find_grabbers (which is probably a script and
> therefore a lot easier than messing with the mythtv source)?

yes you could speed it up so it beats the timeout.

actually i thought this bug had been fixed in mythtv by increasing it
already. What version are you using Bob?

Or maybe as xmltv adds more grabbers the timeout needs increasing again.