[myoss] Mythtv in malaysia

[Chuah, Andrew Hooi Leong]

My myth box currently uses tvxb (with wine) to scrape off the astro
website. It works generally well.. Astro
keeps data for the next 3 days (sad, compared to overseas where the data
is for 2 weeks). The problem
I've been having is that data on the Astro website is wrong! Especially
last week being Raya week, all
the special Raya shows were not there, and movements of regular shows to
make space for special events (ie. PM's speech, etc.)
were not captured.

The other problem is that the Astro website does not capture TV9. I'm
thinking (when I have time, or if someone else does :) ) to
write a scrapper that gets data from the Star's website or the channel
websites themselves. The Star has pretty up-to-date listings,
and (I think) the channel websites have pretty good synopsis...

Re: the question on whether you can use such a system on Astro or not: I
personally don't have Astro (once I have Myth I find that I 
have too many shows to watch even without Astro :) ) but I don't think
you can hook the Astro box to your capture card to get DVB data
digitally.
However, you can always use an IR-blaster to change the channels; that
will work for sure and Myth supports it. The only problem
is that you have only one decoder with Astro, and you would want at
least 2 so you can watch TV and record at the same time...

-andrew


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[mailto:myoss-bounces at lists.foss.org.my] On Behalf Of shahada abubakar
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:42 AM
To: A general discussion list on Free/Open Source Software in Malaysia.
Cc: myoss at mail.foss.org.my
Subject: Re: [myoss] Mythtv in malaysia


Sam Ng wrote:
> [...]
> I've tried the xmltv thing before and find that the
> XML tv thing for malaysia isn't up or a bit flaky. It
> was quite some time ago and I think it was tvxb that
> broke and xmltv for malaysia does not exist.
>
> Anyway, on a sidenote, someone put up a channel
> listing on http://malaysiantv.blogspot.com/ . its
> available for astro & our free tv. I got it off
> Wikipedia's entry for Malaysian TV. Its seems like its
> not always updated though. 
>
> I think it is high time we OSS ppl improved the TV
> listings availability for Malaysia, as commercial
> offerings are non-existant or not worth it.
> Furthermore especially with more and more devices are
> now connected to the web, something like this would be
> useful. 
>
> For myself, I'm interested to start collaborating
> together on xmlTV for the Malaysia channels. Any other
> takers?
>
> --- "Chuah, Andrew Hooi Leong"
> <andrew.hooi.leong.chuah at intel.com> wrote:
>   
>>  Just want to check if there is anyone (besides me :)
>> ) who is using
>> MythTV in Malaysia? Would like to discuss channel
>> grabbing, etc. Perhaps
>> we can collaborate on getting an xmltv grabber up
>> for Malaysia... the
>> tvxb one that I'm using doesn't work very well
>>     

There has been one or two threads regarding mythtv on this list before, 
so I'm sure there are a number of users in Malaysia. I've yet to set 
mine up (embarassingly on pending list for 3 years, hopefully will start

something once I receive my EPIA board in November!), but I did fiddle 
around with XMLTV some time last year, and wrote a parser for the Astro 
V5 website. I believe it would need some work to coax it to work with 
MythTV (command line parameters are different, or something like that). 
If you have mythtv running you can work on it and see what can be done 
(keep me updated).

You can get a copy here (warning: low bandwidth low reliability site): 
http://dev.abubakar.net/astro2xmltv .

There are some legal considerations with using the data off the astro 
website, as I believe republishing or non-personal use is prohibited. 
IANAL, but I believe grabbing it for a personal mythtv box would be fine

(until astro realizes they'd rather sell you an AstroMAX and starts to 
make life difficult ... :-) ). Putting up a channel listing website 
sourced from this data would probably be in violation of the Terms of 
Usage. Go check it out first.

Are there any broadcast stations that are not represented in the 
existing astro website (pardon my ignorance!)? Are there any other 
sources of malaysian channels online?

Regards,
.sha
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