Re: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

[Rob Hillis]

Paul Andreassen wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 20:27, Rob Hillis wrote: After far too long, I've changed over to this posted version of the script Excellent. So far, that's been my reaction too. I'm pleasantly surprised by it's speed over the old screen-scraper grabbers - probably one of the major reasons I put off the move for this long. - it's working fine for the freesd channels, but when I run an appropriately modified copy for Foxtel, I end up with the following... [...] Use of uninitialized value in string at /usr/bin/tv_grab_au_foxtel line 722. This is probably caused by have no data to download. That was my initial guess, though I couldn't be sure. Doesn't do anything, even if left alone for a few hours. I probably should point out that the Foxtel channels aren't in my channels table (yet) though I doubt this is the cause of the problem. A diff between the two scripts yeilds the following... [...] Look good to me. I didn't think there was a problem there, but best to be sure. print PRN "$pidsrowspansnames[$#pidsrowspansnames]"; I believe this is the line giving grieve. Yep, that was the one.  Apparently Thunderbird didn't think to highlight it in any way when converting to text only... I am as sure as I can be that I have copied the script verbatim. My knowledge of PERL is near zero, though I know enough C/C++ to be able to make some sense of the code. Read the 'man perlintro' and you should be ok. Perl makes me nervous... I've heard multiple times that it can be far more complex and unreadable than C/C++, and given what I've learnt about regular expressions, I have no problem believing that... :)  I have no doubt what you lose in readability and simplicity, you pick up in bucketloads in flexibility, but it *does* make for a steep learning curve. That line does look a little odd, though I'd be willing to bet the difference between $pids.. and $#pids is like the difference between a variable and a pointer, so I may well be wrong. Perl is much more convoluted than that. That's what I was afraid of... :) Is anyone else running in to this? Is it just me? Not may people use the foxtel stuff. Silly think is that I'm not - yet.  I've been asked if I want to share the cost of a Foxtel connection with my father (it's incredible - you move out of home into your own place and one of your parents moves with you...)  Since I work rather a lot, I'm not interested if I have a lot of trouble integrating Foxtel into MythTV, so I was starting to cover the bases by adding channels to see what's on... I haven't started toying with how to get the audio/video to MythTV yet, whether it be via SVIDEO/composite to a BT878 card or via a DVB-S card with a CAM.  Obviously the latter would be vastly preferable, though being a consortia essentially between channel 9 and Tel$tra, I have no doubt that my wishes have been taken into account and a product providing exactly the opposite will be provided. I've attached a fixed version and here is a test output: I'm trying that at the moment.  Whilst I'm no longer getting the errors, the hanging may not yet be fixed...  Now I'm getting:- mythtv bin # tv_grab_au_foxtel grabing 7 days into /var/local/tv_grab_au_foxtel/guide.xml starting 5 threads loading queue 12122004 unchanged 13122004 downloading 14122004 downloading 15122004 downloading 16122004 downloading 17122004 downloading 18122004 downloading 19122004 downloading queue is complete Repeated du -h commands in the cache directory does not reveal incremental disk usage. It's only been running for around ten minutes, so I'll leave it alone for a while and see what transpires...

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