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Paul Andreassen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 20:27, Rob Hillis wrote:
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<pre wrap="">After far too long, I've changed over to this posted version of the
script
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Excellent.
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<pre wrap="">So far, that's been my reaction too. I'm pleasantly surprised by it's speed over the old screen-scraper grabbers - probably one of the major reasons I put off the move for this long.
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<pre wrap=""> - it's working fine for the freesd channels, but when I run an
appropriately modified copy for Foxtel, I end up with the following...
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Use of uninitialized value in string at
/usr/bin/tv_grab_au_foxtel line 722.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->This is probably caused by have no data to download.
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That was my initial guess, though I couldn't be sure.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Doesn't do anything, even if left alone for a few hours. I probably
should point out that the Foxtel channels aren't in my channels table
(yet) though I doubt this is the cause of the problem. A diff between
the two scripts yeilds the following...
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<pre wrap="">Look good to me.
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I didn't think there was a problem there, but best to be sure.<br>
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<pre wrap=""> print PRN "$pidsrowspansnames[$#pidsrowspansnames]";
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<pre wrap=""><!---->I believe this is the line giving grieve.
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Yep, that was the one. Apparently Thunderbird didn't think to
highlight it in any way when converting to text only...<br>
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<pre wrap="">I am as sure as I can be that I have copied the script verbatim. My
knowledge of PERL is near zero, though I know enough C/C++ to be able
to make some sense of the code.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Read the 'man perlintro' and you should be ok.
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Perl makes me nervous... I've heard multiple times that it can be far
more complex and unreadable than C/C++, and given what I've learnt
about regular expressions, I have no problem believing that... :) I
have no doubt what you lose in readability and simplicity, you pick up
in bucketloads in flexibility, but it *does* make for a steep learning
curve.<br>
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<pre wrap=""> That line does look a little odd, though I'd be willing to bet the
difference between $pids.. and $#pids is like the difference between a
variable and a pointer, so I may well be wrong.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Perl is much more convoluted than that.
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That's what I was afraid of... :)<br>
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<pre wrap="">Is anyone else running in to this? Is it just me?
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Not may people use the foxtel stuff.
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Silly think is that I'm not - yet. I've been asked if I want to share
the cost of a Foxtel connection with my father (it's incredible - you
move out of home into your own place and one of your parents moves with
you...) Since I work rather a lot, I'm not interested if I have a lot
of trouble integrating Foxtel into MythTV, so I was starting to cover
the bases by adding channels to see what's on...<br>
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I haven't started toying with how to get the audio/video to MythTV yet,
whether it be via SVIDEO/composite to a BT878 card or via a DVB-S card
with a CAM. Obviously the latter would be vastly preferable, though
being a consortia essentially between channel 9 and Tel$tra, I have no
doubt that my wishes have been taken into account and a product
providing exactly the opposite will be provided.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I've attached a fixed version and here is a test output:
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I'm trying that at the moment. Whilst I'm no longer getting the
errors, the hanging may not yet be fixed... Now I'm getting:-<br>
<blockquote><tt>mythtv bin # tv_grab_au_foxtel<br>
grabing 7 days into /var/local/tv_grab_au_foxtel/guide.xml<br>
starting 5 threads<br>
loading queue<br>
12122004 unchanged<br>
13122004 downloading<br>
14122004 downloading<br>
15122004 downloading<br>
16122004 downloading<br>
17122004 downloading<br>
18122004 downloading<br>
19122004 downloading<br>
queue is complete<br>
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Repeated <tt>du -h</tt> commands in the cache directory does not
reveal incremental disk usage. It's only been running for around ten
minutes, so I'll leave it alone for a while and see what transpires...<br>
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