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Re: [LUG] Freeguide- xmltv problem.

 

Ray Smith wrote:
> hi all.
> Bit of an oddity with freeguid today. I have used this in the past and
> have tried installing it today on hardy heron ubuntu 8.04
> 
> Seems to work but never completes downloading the listings file for the
> uk server.
> Eventually after about 1 1/2 hours I gave up and then restarted. It then
> complained it needed to download the lsitings for missing channels.
> when giving it the go ahead it complains the config file cannot be
> found.
> freeguide sets up a config file in a freeguid and an xmltv directory. It
> wants to read the channels from the conf file uk_rt-conf which doesn't
> get created.. However running the configure command produces a
> tv_grab_uk_rt.conf file. I selected ALL for the channels figuring I
> could create a custom channel set after.
> 
> Problem is that even after renaming this to uk_rt-conf which it expects
> to find and then letting it update, it downloads thousands of listings
> for the next 7 days & I assume the complete range of channels but I only
> have 80 channels afterwards in the guide.
> The first time wizard reports that radio times carries 280 or so
> channels (including radio and extra timeshifted channels, chan4+1 etc)
> so where are they ?
> 
> anyone have any idea of what might be going on.
> Alternatively does anyone have a full uk xmltv channel set I could
> import that they wouldn't mind mailing me off list please ?
> 
> Ray.
> 
> 
I've not used xmltv, but I've come across a really great TV app for 
gnome which does include a pretty good program guide (though I've not 
tried looking days into the future). Also it's got a self-setup scaning 
routine.

It's called Me-TV (the author is Australian), launchpad.net/me-tv. I 
used to use kaffeine on a KDE desktop, but when I switched to Ubuntu 
kaffeine eventually just froze up. I really can't recomend me-tv highly 
enough, it's a brilliant TV watching application. And it's in the usual 
repositories.

I know that this sort of reply, ("Can anyone help me do x"  and the 
response "don't bother with x do y instead") is very very anoying, so 
apologies.

Simon

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