Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> [10-10-31 02:26]: > > On 30 Oct 10, at 6:25pm, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > ... > > I am looking for a tool to simply put the contents of xmltv-files into > > a MySQL database. > > I googled a lot this day and found some tools but some does not use > > MySQL (for example one uses Postgresql) other have started a project > > but do not release any code. And lot tools are part of very very big > > packages and cannot be cut out of them in a simple way. > > > > I only want a xmltv-reader which feeds the data into MySQL. Everything > > else is done elsewhere... > > I think the best answer to this is "MythTV". > > A week ago you asked about waking your computer up at certain times to record > TV. > > Earlier today you were asking for something to schedule recordings. I would > have replied then and suggested MythTV or atd, but you'd already had a reply > you were happy with by the time I saw it. > > Now you're trying to fix another problem which has already been solved by > MythTV. > > What are you going to do when you find that shows are running late and the > bash script you've bodged together cuts off the last 5 minutes of Inspector > Morse? You will never know whodunnit!! MythTV automatically pads the program > by a few minutes, except when this would clash with another program. > > MythTV has thousands of lines of code already written to solve the problems > associated with recording and watching TV on a computer. All the stuff you've > asked for already, MythTV started addressing years ago. > > Will your script be able to record two shows at once, using a single tuner? > MythTV can. > > I understand where you're coming from, wanting to do this yourself, but I > think you're going to be continually wanting to add features to your solution. > > Having said that, I think you could probably use Perl. I think there is an > xmltv module in CPAN, and you'll find about a zillion articles on the web > about using Perl to shove stuff into databases. > http://kobesearch.cpan.org/htdocs/xmltv/ > Is there any reason your database has to be MySQL, rather than, say, SQLite? > > Stroller. > >
Hi Stroller, thank you for your help and answer. May be your right: Why doing anything myself ?! I want to use MySQL since it is already installed and used and dont want to have n different databases programs for n different applications which basically do all the same: gathering data... Best regards and thank you again! mcc
