Tag Archive for 'tv'

Freevo: Grabbing EPG data from command line II

January 27th, 2008 by tripledes

Well I have first version of a script which I think will help me to grab EPG data and store it in XMLTV format. I’m just using standard Linux shell tools, tzap (from media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-apps) and tv_grab_dvb.
You can have a look to the script
here, I’m pretty sure should be other ways to accomplish this task [...]

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Grabbing EPG data from command line

January 3rd, 2008 by tripledes

EPG is the data broadcast by DVB channels allowing their users to have information about the scheduled television programs.
Grabbing it from a linux box command-line is quite easy using
tv_grab_dvb, it just requires you tune a multiplex (as I understand it, is a set of channels sharing the same frequency) on your DVB card and [...]

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