Re: xmltv file output format issue

> 1. Gracenote has changed your lineup and added/removed/renamed stations

HHmmmm... I will carry the mythtv computer over to the in-laws and update the channel list/lineup.
Since you mention that, I think about 3 years ago something like that happened.


> 2. Your tv_grab_na_dd.config file has changed allowing
> more or different stations to flow to MythTV.

That would explain why the output file is larger.
There was one point when I reran the xmltv --configure option, but I don't recall why I did that.
My point is, I don't have a copy of the previous .conf file.




---- Robert Eden <[email protected]> wrote: 
> On 12/4/2015 1:57 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > This summer I began manually downloading the Schedules Direct data (North America)
> > on a Windows machine that had internet access using xmltv 0.5.66 on Windows,
> > I would download the data with the following command:
> > 	xmltv.exe tv_grab_na_dd --output file.xml
> > which the resulting file.xml would be about 3.7 megabytes.
> >
> > I would transfer the file over to my MythTV 0.27.4 system and run the following command:
> > 	mythfilldatabase --dd-file --xmlfile /path/to/file.xml --sourceid 1 --lineupid <my_zip_code> --offset 0
> > and of roughly 4000 airings it would match about 400 to 500 new watched airings each update.
> >
> > About November 10th, the downloaded "file.xml" began being about 4.6 megabytes.
> > Now the mythfilldatabase sees the contents of the file but never matches any of the published airings.
> >
> > After checking the download log for my account on Schedules Direct ( http://www.schedulesdirect.org/getddlog ),
> > the actual data size that I have been downloading has not changed ~ 3.6 megabytes,
> > but the way xmltv formats the output file.xml has changed.
> >
> 
> Nothing has changed on the Schedules Direct servers or the tv_grab_na_dd 
> program in November.  (Last server upgrade/move was in August)
> 
> Looking at the SD data for the account tied to your email, I don't see a 
> significant change int he size of the data file SD has been sending to 
> you. (about 3M, but that may be compressed)
> 
> Possibilities:
> 1. Gracenote has changed your lineup and added/removed/renamed stations
> 2. Your tv_grab_na_dd.config file has changed allowing more or different 
> stations to flow to MythTV.
> 
> It will be interesting to compare the two files... if you don't want to 
> upload them, you can email them directly to me.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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