As you know, I’ve been working on Advisare for some time now. It’s a program which does two things, (1) connect to Canal Satellite’s website to fetch the TV program of the day and (2) advises about what to watch.
While doing some research the other day, I found out that part (1) is the aim of an existing project called xmltv. xmltv has grabbers for each country but unfortunately not for Mauritius. So, I think I’ll write one. So watch out for tv_grab_mu in the coming weeks :-)
Then, I found out that xmltv is used internally by many PVR software (aiming to replace the VCR, the DVD player and the game console) to show the TV program of the day. I discovered that MythTV for example uses xmltv and by writing tv_grab_mu, I’ll be able to use MythTV to record my satellite programs.
So I’m pretty excited right now. I’ll think I’ll have a go at tv_grab_mu. I’ll keep you posted.
Keep the goodies coming…looking forward for this tv_grab_mu.
Have you been able to build Myth TV box from scratch ?
Does BOXee share the same xmltv mechanism ?
Cheers
Pascal
Hi Pascal. I wrote this post quite a few years ago and the situation is still the same as before. TV_grab_mu still does not exist…
I never built xbmc from source. The binary versions work fine for me. As for Boxee, I have no clue…