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On 30 Oct 10, at 6:25pm, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> I am looking for a tool to simply put the contents of xmltv-files into |
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> a MySQL database. |
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> I googled a lot this day and found some tools but some does not use |
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> MySQL (for example one uses Postgresql) other have started a project |
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> but do not release any code. And lot tools are part of very very big |
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> packages and cannot be cut out of them in a simple way. |
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> I only want a xmltv-reader which feeds the data into MySQL. Everything |
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> else is done elsewhere... |
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I think the best answer to this is "MythTV". |
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A week ago you asked about waking your computer up at certain times to record TV. |
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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. |
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Now you're trying to fix another problem which has already been solved by MythTV. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Will your script be able to record two shows at once, using a single tuner? MythTV can. |
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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. |
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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. |
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http://kobesearch.cpan.org/htdocs/xmltv/ |
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Is there any reason your database has to be MySQL, rather than, say, SQLite? |
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Stroller. |