HOWTO Setup Zap2It/XMLTV for MythTV

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MythTV needs a guide to know when to start recording. This guide information is fetched usually once per day at night. Configuration of the guide is different depending on where you live. If you are in Canada or in the US, use Schedules Direct. If you live in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany, Austria, Finland, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, France, Norway, or Romania, use XMLTV. Belgian/Dutch, Belgian/French, Brazillian, New Zealand, and Swedish MythTV users use PyTVgrab.

Contents 1 Schedules Direct 2 XMLTV 3 PyTVGrab 4 tv_grab_nl_py

[edit] Schedules Direct

Canada, USA

• website Create an account and sign up for your local listings. A nominal fee is required.

[edit] XMLTV

UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany, Austria, Finland, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, France, Norway, Romania

• Specific Gentoo XMLTV instructions
• XMLTV Website.

If you live in Germany and experiences problems with mythfilldatabase take a look at http://www.mythwiki.de/index.php?title=HOWTO_Mythfilldatabase

[edit] PyTVGrab

Belgian/Dutch, Belgian/French, Brazilian, New Zealand, Sweden

• PyTVgrab website

[edit] tv_grab_nl_py

For Dutch mythtboxes you can use this awesome pyhton script. It does caching, coloring and also it will download little thumbs of the channel.

• tv_grab_nl_py website