Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-10-29 Severity: wishlist * Package name : xmltv Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/ * License : GPL Description : XMLTV is a set of utilities to manage your TV viewing
XMLTV is a set of utilities to manage your TV viewing. They work with TV listings stored in the XMLTV format, which is based on XML. The idea is to separate out the backend (getting the listings) from the frontend (displaying them for the user), and to implement useful operations like picking out your favourite programmes as filters that read and write XML documents. There are five backends at present, grabbing TV listings for Canada, the USA, the UK, Germany, Austria, Sweden and Norway. There are filters to sort the listings by date, to remove shows that have already been broadcast, and a couple of programmes to organize your viewing by storing preferences of what shows you watch. There are a couple of backends to produce printed output. This software is still being developed and most of the tools are command-line based, but at least many of them have manual pages. Initial packaging is almost done, I expect to upload within the week. This packages is used by several tv viewing applications, including most pvr programs. I am packaging this to make installing (and eventually packaging) mythtv easier (once it's dependence on libmp3lame can be removed). Andrew Lenharth -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux vilya 2.4.19 #3 Thu Oct 24 19:59:40 EDT 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
