On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
[tv_grab_uk_rt]
>>- Some of the funky stuff the old grabber did to extract text from
>> descriptions is no longer done;
>I can't think what kind of stuff you are thinking of?
The old tv_grab_uk_rt used to try various regexps on the text
description, I think.
>However, I think that Mythtv will probably still blindly iterate and
>call xmltv once for each day that it needs data for.
A bad way to do things in general (for any grabber), better to use
--days and --offset.
>I guess this will be a common way for many apps that use xmltv to
>work, so I wonder if it's worth adding a small caching function to
>the TODO list for a future version?
There is the undocumented --cache option, perhaps something could
happen with that.
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Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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