mc2xml

Oct 23 2008

MythTV Broken again :(

The earlier posted fix , getting my data from mythportal seemed to be a temporary solution.

It also seems the solution that was mentioned at Kristof Vanhertum's blog , the agent fix doesn't work anymore either.

Somewhere in the comments of that post however people start referring to mc2xml a tool to get your info (even 14 days worth of it) from a really untrustworthy source and import it amongst other tools into MythTV

No source code to be found, just a binary .. something that always scares me .. But running the thing (first time as a dummy empty user, one never knows) actually seems to give me an XML file with relevant data , to be used by mythfilldatabase.

  1. ./mc2xml -c be -g 2610
  2. Loading ..... : mc2xml <mc2xml@gmail.com> (2008-09-15)
  3. Connecting .. : microsoft.com
  4.  
  5. Select lineup:
  6.  
  7. 0: TER Unmapped Analogue Terrestrial
  8. 1: TER Unmapped Digital Terrestrial
  9. 2: CAB Unmapped Analogue Cable
  10. 3: CAB Unmapped Digital Cable
  11. 4: SAT Unmapped Analogue Satellite
  12. 5: SAT Unmapped Digital Satellite
  13. 6: SAT TV Vlaanderen Digital Satellite
  14. 7: TER TV Vlaanderen Digital terrestrial
  15. 8: CAB Telenet Analog Kabel (132)
  16.  
  17. (0-8): 8
  18.  
  19. Downloading . : microsoft.com
  20. Downloaded .. : 353944 bytes
  21. Source ...... : BDS
  22. Headend ..... : 7200116
  23. Version ..... : 2693590756
  24. Start time .. : 2008-10-23T00:00:00 UTC
  25. End time .... : 2008-11-06T23:55:00 UTC
  26. Parsing ..... : Telenet Analog Kabel (132)
  27. Writing ..... : xmltv.xml
  28. Writing ..... : mc2xml.dat
  29. Completed ... : 5384193 bytes in 26s, 27 channels, 9409 programs scheduled.

Yes that's my actual postcode. Different postcode values will give you other alternatives such as Coditel/Integan .. so you better use the right one.

I`m not really satisfied however, it fails to recognize my already defined channels. So I seem to have something that at first sight looks like relevant data . Only my channel numbers are way way way off ..

I need to fix that asap. The only problem being that tomorrow it's Geekdinner and I`ll be spending the rest of the weekend at T-Dose hence I have no time to fix this anymore ...

Anyone got a quick fix for that ? Or will I just have to live with a weekend of non-recordings ? :)

Well.. maybe next week will be a productive one then :)