[mythtvnz] EPG

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Jonathan Hoskin
<jonathan.hoskin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>      > Am I right in assuming that someone who uses only DVB-T  can only get
>>>      > 2 days of data from the EPG?
>>> I have only noticed EIT to contain program info in the last 2 hours?  Or
>>> have I got this wrong?
>>
>> On DVB-T the EIT data is very limited, as far as I know it only shows
>> the current programme and the next programme. The full data is in MHEG5.
>
> I'm guessing that most people just use the XMLTV data from nzepg.org.
> For me, feeding and watering an MHEG5 scraper would be an exercise in
> WAF reduction.

Certainly the tv_grab_nz-py script that downloads from nzepg.org is
(IMHO) the easiest way to go, but either should be fully automated
once set up. The W shouldn't even know or care how the data gets
there.


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