On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 17:49, nez wrote: > I have since moved on to MythTV. I emerged it using USE="dvb" and it > compiled with DVB support under the card selection screen which was > nice. I started mysql, created the mythdatabase and it worked. Now, > xmltv no longer has a grabber for Australia so I found a script on > some guys site called tv_grab_au, and that was able to get the > channel information (not programming information) on free to air > television, but it didn't work when I tried to do digital. Here are > the error messages. > > No Digital using Perth,WA > ######### > grabing channels: ################################################## > > ERROR: can't find DataSet for Perth - freesd > ######### > > No Programming information using free to air > ######### > grabing listings: > ERROR: can't find DataSet for Network TEN - 2005-02-03 > # > ERROR: can't find DataSet for Network TEN - 2005-02-04 (goes on a bit > more but its the same thing) > ######### > > So this program has failed me. it recognises free to air channels > where I want the free to air digital ones. I still have interest in > it but because mythsetup, under 'video sources' requires that I give > channel information. For australia it tries to use this script, and > unfortunately the script asks what region and whether to delete the > old config and things like that, with i guess mythsetup doesnt > anticipate, so it hangs.
This tv_grab_au uses D1.com.au as the data source. A couple of months ago they started to have problems. If you check the myth-user mail list you'll see we've worked on a replacement, on 21/12/2004 I posted the most recent version which uses another source. You will have to manually modify the top of the file for your region. > I then got tv_grab_dvb which managed to get me my program information > into a .xml file. It is only whats currently on however :( I used the > line: > > ./tv_grab_dvb | mythfilldatabase --no-delete --file 1 0 - > > This put the data in the database it seems. results are ambiguous > ############ > bypassing grabbers, reading directly from file > Status: 72 pkts, 2 prgms, 0 updates, 0 invalid, 0 CRC > err./tv_grab_dvb: > Query was: > SELECT channum FROM channel WHERE chanid = 1000; > No error type from QSqlError? Strange... > Query was: > ######### > > It says the bit about the Qsql error over and over. The stations are only required to transmit NOW and NEXT program information. Even this information is poorly supported. Paul
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