[mythtvnz] Almost there with epgsnoop!

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 01:37 +1300, Robin Gilks wrote:
>> Just missing tvcentral and ctv8, neither of which are on DVB-S
>> Freeview (is that right?) so where does the EPG data come from...
>
> This script pulls the data directly from the Freeview website which has
> all the channels;
>
> http://nice.net.nz/epgsnoop-grabber
>
> Run that through xmltv-proc-nz and it's probably the best data you can
> get for Freeview currently.
>
> I'd suggest people use the hosted data at nzepg.org though so as to not
> hammer the freeview web server too much. I imagine they are already
> noticing the increased traffic from all the new scripts and programs
> others have written to grab data directly after epg.pvr.geek.nz went
> down.

One thing I have never been clear on, what post processing does
epgsnoop provide "out of the box" and what processing has been applied
to the data at nzepg.org?