Hi Thorsten, we were very happy with the data from epgdata during the last year or so. After asking them by mail, if it is possible to use their data, we got a pin for free testing. With that pin it was possible to download the data as xml files from their web page. I wrote a xmltv compatible script to download the files and convert the data to xmltv format, which can be used with freevo. Moreover Dischi and me included epgdata as a source for kaa.epg.
You can find the script here: http://www.ikp.uni-koeln.de/~tanja/freevo/tv_grab_de_epgdata.py But unfortunately the download page of epgdata is not working anymore since dec 28th (at least not for us). The web page itself did not change and we did not receive any note from them, that they stopped their service or changed the conditions. We did send them a mail a few days ago, to ask what is going on, but no answer so far. But that might also be due to the holidays... Anyway, we hope, it is just a temporary failure. For now we did some googling and found another possible source: www.tvprog.org The data is not as extensive as the data from epgdata.com, but it is easy to get. It seems to origin from the dvb-t data stream itself and contains good data for the next 6 days for most of the important German tv channels. Unfortunately it misses some channels, that we receive here in Cologne. But for now, it seems the only alternative that is available to us. Here is a freevo/xmltv compatible script to download and convert the data: http://www.ikp.uni-koeln.de/~tanja/freevo/tv_grab_de_tvprog.py There is also a xmltv grabber for the epg from prisma: http://sfr.mythwiki.de/index.html We used that in the past, but then it stopped working and also there are newer versions now, I had not luck to get it running again... From an older post of yours, I see that you are using dvb-s as tv source. You wrote, that you used a patched version of nxtvepg. Is that version working with budget dvd cards, that do not use the video4linux api? Where did you get it? You seemed not to be satisfied with that solution, why? Another solution would be to use the epg data that is included in the dvb-stream. Did you have any experiences in that area? Regards Tanja Thorsten Pferdekämper schrieb: > Hi folks, > > is there any really working german TV grabber out there? > Currently, I am using nxtvepg, but it seems tv_grab_de_tvtoday creates better > data. (And might be easier to handle.) However, it does not work. I searched > around and it seems that the problem is there for quite a few months now. > (Can't call method "content_list" on an undefined value > at /usr/bin/tv_grab_de_tvtoday line 1277.) > I had a look at the xmltv cvs, but it seems that tv_grab_de_tvtoday has been > deleted due to "restrictive german copyright laws...". > > So - how do all the germans out there grab their TV data? > > Regards, > Thorsten > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
