Re: [xmltv-users] [mythtv] Changes to the RadioTimes XMLTV service

[John V. <joh...@pe...>]

On 14/12/2011 20:04, Jonathan Tweed wrote:
> As part of the recent relaunch of RadioTimes.com, RadioTimes have handed
> over responsibility for the maintenance and support of the feed used by
> tv_grab_uk_rt to us here at MetaBroadcast. This switchover has already
> happened, so the feed is now being generated by us.

Jonathan,

Many thanks for the introduction and to keeping us informed. I'm only a 
user of XMLTV (which I use to populate my MythTV listings), but it's 
good to know that there is now a formal way of reporting feed bugs via 
your discussion group, rather than what I think was a more informal 
relationship between Nick Morrott and someone at the RT.

Nick's in the best position to talk technical, but in answer to your 
blog post, yes, maybe it would be good to modernise the feed format, and 
maybe incorporate some or all of the fixups that are post-processed in 
tv_grab_uk_rt via 
http://supplement.xmltv.org/tv_grab_uk_rt/prog_titles_to_process in the 
source data. I like the idea of linking to iPlayer etc. too. Sometimes a 
recording fails, and it would be nice in that situation if I could 
somehow click on something in MythTV which would pull up the iPlayer 
etc. URL (obviously that would require MythTV support).

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T