Re: User Tale

Robert Eden <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:28:38 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tv.xmltv.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/4/2015 8:43 AM, Bob Portnell wrote:
> Hi! And thanks!
>
> TV_Check is probably better at flagging changes than what we're doing
> now. But it seems our DVR picks up those things itself, so it's not a
> big issue. And the tv_grep lets us also have searches for favorite
> performers, or just on keywords. I'll ponder a supplemental role for
> late-change detection, but I think the existing script is doing what we
> need. (It's the wackiest set of loops you'd every want to see in a
> Windows batch file ... but it works.)
>
> Amusing to me tidbit: It took 96 seconds for tv_check --configure to
> digest a week's worth of XML. About another 30 for the GUI to come up to
> speed.
>
Yea, speed is not a trademark... it has to parse the whole XML file and 
then load bits into memory.   I could add actors and generes to the 
search if you wanted it... but if you're hpapy with your grep script, 
rock on!

Robert

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