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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html