Regarding safer TV guide downloading, there is a batch file in the wiki (Tips and Tricks) that implements a safe way to download XML data (i.e. it doesn't overwrite TV.xml unless the new file is good). The implementation is awful (I can say that, I wrote it!) and the fix gets around a specific UK problem, but the concept would be really easy to implement by somebody with python experience. That should be what "freevo tv_grab" does...
Daniel Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:02:22 -0000 (UTC) From: "Stephen Rowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo-1 improvement To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > After the next release of Freevo I would like to get an idea of which > areas in Freevo-1 need to be looked at for improvements. Oh, one other thing I got burned with today :) tvguide updating! I would love to see freevo have a robust built in mechanism for getting and updating TV guide information. As it stands at the moment people, like myself, tend to use a rather hacky cron job approach. This is a big hurdle for non-linux people as cron scares people ;) Also because I've never bothered to write anything better my cron job just overwrites the xml file each day. If the download fails due to dropped network connection or something then I have a corrupt TV guide and I'm stuffed until I can ssh into the box and fix it, or until the next day and the download runs again. I would love freevo to have a downloader that checks the download, updates as appropriate, has the option to try again from the user interface etc. possibly even the option to configure several sources with use in sequence so that if one fails it can fall back to another (e.g. for those of us with DVB, I would like radio times normally, but if that fails getting the info from DVB would be good) ------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
