> i've been a mythtv user for about six months and i'm constantly > frustrated by the lack of a decent EPG for australian tv. or, for that > matter, any EPG at all that lasts for more than a few months. > > i'd like to create a reliable, comprehensive EPG for australians, > containing full episode titles, description, genre, etc... > > the downside of this is that it would take up a substantial amount of > my time to do something like this, and i'm a full-time uni student > with two part-time jobs. i was thinking that maybe if i charged, say, > a $10-$20 annual fee for the service, i could afford to quit one of > those jobs. this isn't a money-making exercise, i don't like charging > for it, but i'd really like to see a good australian EPG, and it's a > time-consuming task and i just don't have that kind of time at the > moment. > > i'd really like to see an australian EPG that can be relied upon and > has comprehensive info, so i'm hoping i can make this a reality. the > crucial factor though is how many people would sign up for it.
Yes - I would pay that much. However, you will find that the EPG data is not available for you to onsell on a commercial basis and if you did the TV companies here in Oz would come after you for breaching their copyright. This has been covered many time on this list. It's a shame, but that's the commercial reality we have with the TV stations here in Oz at the moment. The version which has been posted in this thread works flawlessly in my experience so unless a problem arises with it then there's no problem to fix at the moment, is there? You could get involved in the OzTivo work where the community manually enters full program details into a database which can then be read by grabbers. There was talk of integrating a MythTV grabber with that but I think there was general lack of enthusiasm from the MythTV community. However, this would seem to be the best long term solution as there are no copyright issues. Search the gossamer archives for details. On David's point on the schedule overruns, I think we will never have a solution to that other than adding 10mins onto the recording end time. I think it would be very unlikely that the schedule would be updated to reflect late runs. I doubt the TV stations even think of it as late! Regards, Phill
_______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
