<html><P>If you're using DVB you can extract the data from the data stream so you don't need an internet connection.</P>
<P>Paul<BR><BR>>-----Original Message-----<BR>>From: VJ [mailto:vj@vijaygill.homelinux.net]<BR>>Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:21 AM<BR>>To: 'Discussion about mythtv'<BR>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Using mythtv as a plain VCR with xmltv but no broadband connection to internet<BR>><BR>>If you are going to grab for UK program listing(tv_grab_uk_rt), you are in <BR>>trouble. The XMLTV has to connect to a website for HTML pages which it <BR>>parses to generate XML. Now this leads to a lot of data being downloaded(and <BR>>tiny fraction of it being useful), e.g. I have to download 70Mb or more to <BR>>get a final XML file of 1.3M for 7 days of program listing. <BR>> <BR>>Which grabber r u going to use? <BR>> <BR>>VJ <BR>> <BR>>----- Original Message ----- <BR>>From: "Jimmy Larsson" <jimmy@jimbo.se> <BR>>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org> <BR>>Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:44 AM <BR>>Subject: [mythtv-users] Using mythtv as a plain VCR with xmltv but no <BR>>broadband connection to internet <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>> Hello <BR>>> <BR>>> Is here anyone who has successfully been running mythtv:s xmltv-grabber <BR>>> without any broadband connection to internet? <BR>>> <BR>>> I live in a place where my only internet feed is 56k modem. I want to <BR>>> build a mythtv-box to use a PPP modem-connection to internet to get the <BR>>> TV-program data (xmltv). Is this realistic? How often do I want to <BR>>> connect and get updates? Is once every 24h enough? <BR>>> <BR>>> Thanks for your feedback. <BR>>> <BR>>> Regards Jimmy <BR>>> jimmy@jimbo.se <BR>>> <BR>>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <BR>>---- <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>_______________________________________________ <BR>>mythtv-users mailing list <BR>>mythtv-users@mythtv.org <BR>>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users <BR>> <BR>>_______________________________________________ <BR>>mythtv-users mailing list <BR>>mythtv-users@mythtv.org <BR>>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users <BR>> <BR>></P>