[LUGSB] Media Centre PC

James Crasta jcrasta at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 10:41:00 EST 2008


Ilya Sukhanov (dotCOMmie) wrote:
> Please note if you want more than watching live TV, IE if you want to 
> record or what ever else you need a listing service. Something that 
> says when particular shows are on and what they are about. This 
> service used to be free but no longer is -- nominal fee of $20 a year.
If you're -really- cheap, there's this:  http://zap2xml.110mb.com/

It's a perl script which slurps the HTML listings from zap2it.com, which 
is still free, and converts it to XMLTV format. A friend of mine has had 
some success running it (he said that a few channels were missing, for 
some reason, but generally it worked.)

Probably less hassle giving out your 20 bucks to Schedules Direct, though.


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