Donavan Stanley wrote:
On 4/21/05, Preston Crow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:If you really mean, "do-it-myself," nothing is stopping you. ;) You can use XMLTV to download DataDirect data to an XML file, write your own screen scrapers to pull data from your local channels and Comedy Central and put it into XMLTV format, then use XMLTV tools (i.e. tv_cat) to concatenate the files, then use "mythfilldatabase --file" to import the data. You could do this manually every day, or write some scripts to automate the process.
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Ultimately, however, going straight to the source should get you theExcept for the other technical hurdles, and the fact that 100
best data with the fewest licensing issues.
different sources means 100 diffferent versions of series/episode IDs
and the like (if they're even there).
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I don't care about the mass market. I'm in the do-it-yourself market.
Do-it-yourself doesn't need to mean half-assed.
Unfortunately, since the XMLTV data does not always include as much information as the DataDirect data (depending on grabber--and especially until the grabbers start using the 0.6 DTD), you'll find that you lose a lot of useful/valuable information over downloading using the built-in DataDirect support in mythfilldatabase. If the benefits of this approach outweight the cost (information loss), the you just need to continue to maintain your screen scrapers and scripts. If the information loss is too great a cost, you could always modify the mythfilldatabase source to support conditionally pulling more data from XMLTV files (provided it exists in the file); however, since much of the extra information can only be properly represented in the 0.6 DTD, you may find yourself updating the XMLTV grabber to provide 0.6-formatted XML and updating mythfilldatabase to support the 0.6 DTD all the while maintaining your scrapers and scripts...
If, instead, you meant the more general "do-it-yourself"--i.e. someone-else figures out how to screen-scrape the websites, writes the code, compiles the code, and, when it comes to installing the RPM's, I "do-it-myself"--good luck finding the people to do the first few steps. :) Few people include very much "do-it-myself" in "do-it-yourself," so if--when confronted with the prospect of maintaining all that extra code "myself"--it doesn't seem quite so worthwhile, you're starting to see things from the viewpoint of the MythTV/XMLTV developers... :)
Just my 2 cents. Note that I'm not trying to attack anyone personally--just trying to present some of the issues in a "close-to-home" approach. (Since I've been away from the lists for several months, this is probably a very bad way to start getting back into them...)
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