Hans Meine wrote: > Hi everybody! > > Instead of just asking questions on IRC, I thought this would be a better > place to summarize how to use Freevo with nxtvepg. I saw that the Wiki talks > about it: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/Nxtvepg > Also, Florian sent me this link: > http://demmer.ipax.at/blog/?static=/wiki/&page=ProjectEpiaHtpcNxtvepg > > Now, to summarize what I understood so far: > > 1) First, one should install and configure nxtvepg, and I succeeded doing > so. :-) > > 2) For Freevo integration, one uses the XMLTV export function. > > 3) (This is where it starts to become less clear:) In the past, nxtvepg could > not run in parallel to Freevo, but nowadays, it can just run in the > background, and that's the usual thing to do. The command is sth. along > nxtvepg -rcfile path_to_configured_nxtvepgrc -daemon > and then > nxtvepg -rcfile path_to_configured_nxtvepgrc -dump xml > /tmp/TV.xml > to save the XML file.
you may need to specify the dump format -dump xml5ltz and you can also give an output file -outfile. > 4) Optimally, one uses an init.d script to start nxtvepg with -daemon / stop > with -daemonstop. > > 5) What's the best way to periodically push the XML into Freevo? Obviously a > cronjob.. now isn't the Wiki missing a freevo command for > re-reading /tmp/TV.xml? What I do here is to run freevo schedulefavorites, this updates the database. It may also be useful to run tv_sort on the data too. I use /etc/cron.hourly for this. With one tv tuner I'm not sure what the best method is, may use the VIDEO_POST_PLAY and VCR_POST_REC to tune channels back to the provider after playing and recording. > I hope thinking this all out loud helps someone. :-) > > Greetings, > Hans > > PS: This is all because xmltv stopped working these days... again. :-( As I > said on IRC, I suffer from the following xmltv error (using > tv_grab_de_tvtoday): "Code point \u0008 is not a valid character in XML > at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/XMLTV.pm line 1162". I remember having > seen sth. like that on freevo-devel, but I cannot find it anymore. > Anyhow, xmltv is plain broken. ;-/ Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
