EPG and XMLTV
EPG (electronic program guide) is basically an interactive TV guide, on your computer. It should be integrated with your TV viewing software of choice, and allow you to see and select shows for viewing, or to schedule recording. It all sounds so simple. Your EPG compatible software of choice acquires this programme information from any number of sources (websites), by way of a piece of software called a “grabber”.
Your grabber will connect to a source site, download the EPG information, and export it to an “xmltv” formatted .xml file. (Check here for more info).
Then your TV software should be able to import this .xml file and you should have your EPG!
So I got a grabber called “javaxmltvgrabber2”, which is recommended by some people on the Digital Broadcasting Australia forums. I have managed to download and export the .xml, but I’m having difficulties getting MP to import it. Whatever I do, I can’t get MP to show an EPG.
I’m gonna downgrape MP and see if I have a better run.
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