MythTV - program guide info

[Dave Hall]

Putting this back on the list for all to benefit from :)

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 02:52 -0700, Slawek Drabot wrote:
> You'll have to elaborate here as I'm not good with acronyms.

EIT - Event Information Table - see http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/EIT

> 
> btw. the script is not buggy, it's just that the guide it downloads
> sometimes does not match (in a few instances) the actual program.
> Probably an issue with Yahoo and their guide.

Or the wrong information is supplied by the networks.

Cheers

Dave

> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 6/5/08, Dave Hall <ubuntu at skwashd.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Dave Hall <ubuntu at skwashd.com>
> > Subject: Re: MythTV - program guide info
> > To: sdrabot at yahoo.com
> > Cc: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008, 9:45 AM
> > On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 00:28 -0700, Slawek Drabot wrote:
> > > Those of you who use MythTV, what script/process do
> > you use to
> > > download program guide information?
> > > 
> > > I'm using a script I found more than 1 year ago
> > that attempts to use
> > > yahoo guide data. Unfortunately it is incomplete in
> > terms of the
> > > channels for which it has guides and sometimes it is
> > incorrect.
> > 
> > I just use EIT which is pretty good and doesn't need
> > any buggy
> > scripts :)
> 
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