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XMLTV GUI Grabber

Alternative XMLTV grabber for Radio Times tv listings. Provides a GUI for configuration and grabbing listings.
Radio Times supplies tv listings for over 240 UK tv channels. See here for a program to view your downloaded listings.
An excellent new viewer for Radio Times XMLTV data has been developed. It is much faster than TV Guide (I loaded a full 240 channel 40MB xml file into it and it hardly slowed down), see here for details.
For help and documentation see The XMLTVGUI Wiki page
All Zap2it users should read this documentation

Download:

Download XMLTV GUI 3.11.00 for Windows
Download XMLTV GUI 3.11.00 for Linux

Notes:

To run under Linux you either need to have Kylix 3 installed or you can download the runtime files from here and put them in the XMLTV directory. As version 3 requires the lua runtimes a special script is required to start the grabber (unless lua is installed), to generate the script open a terminal and cd to the xmltv directory then run "./gen_scripts.sh"

To open .7z files go to:

Linux users should use p7zip from source forge
Linux users may need to change the permissions of the extracted executable file to allow execution

All data downloaded with the Radio Times grabber is copyright of the Radio Times website (http://www.radiotimes.com) and the use of the data is restricted to personal use only. Also be aware that this service may not remain free and in future may become a paid-for service.

If you have any problems with the grabber or find any bugs please post them in the forum or email me

To grab listings automatically run:
"XmltvGUI.exe /Grab" (Windows)
"./XmltvGUI /Grab" (Linux)

To run the console versions no parameters are required:
"XmltvConsole.exe" (Windows)
"./XmltvConsole" (Linux)

To specify a directory to retrieve the configuration from simply add the following to the command line
"/cDirectory"
The directory should be a subdirectory of the main xmltv directory, any configuration files not found in the supplied directory will be taken from the xmltv directory instead. This option is available on both the GUI and console versions and is used in the same way on both.

To specify the priority the grabber should run at simply add the following to the command line
"/Px"
Where x is the priority. 0 is the lowest priority and 5 is the highest. Using a value more than 4 could seriously reduce the performance of your computer

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Version History:

Version 3.11.00 W (941KB) L (1107KB) (19/12/2008)
Changes:
-Fixed bug in time fixer
-Added Virgin 1 to Radio Times freeview limit script
-Made grabber not write xml if no programs have been downloaded
-Added BBC World timezone corrector script
-Fixed handling of digiguide channels with no ids
-Added more details from misc field in digiguide grabber

Version 3.10.02 W (935KB) L (1106KB) (07/06/2008)
Changes:
-Fixed xml file parsing bug introduced in 3.10.01
-Made digiguide grabber download smaller chunks of data
-Improved program details processors handling of episode numbers

Version 3.10.01 W (937KB) L (1106KB) (05/06/2008)
Changes:
-Added missing digiguide fields

Version 3.10.00 W (937KB) L (1105KB) (01/06/2008)
Changes:
-Fixed missing length field in Radio Times data
-Added digiguide grabber (see wiki for instructions)

Version 3.09.04 W (933KB) L (1104KB) (21/04/2008)
Changes:
-Improved xml validation
-Made ONTV cache optional

Version 3.09.03 W (932KB) L (1102KB) (31/01/2008)
Changes:
-Changed handling of Radio Times character encoding

Version 3.09.02 W (937KB) L (1102KB) (13/12/2007)
Changes:
-Fixed bug in uk_rt xml character handling

Version 3.09.01 W (937KB) (08/10/2007)
Changes:
-Fixed setup file to include new grabbers

Version 3.09.00 W (933KB) L (1102KB) (08/10/2007)
Changes:
-Added Schedules Direct Grabber
-Fixed bug in xmltv_import
-Added ONTV grabber
-Disabled channels button for grabbers without selectable channels
-Fixed bug causing pass start and stop return values to not be checked

Version 3.08.02 W (933KB) L (1097KB) (19/08/2007)
Changes:
-Fixed sorting bug

Version 3.08.01 W (930KB) L (1098KB) (13/08/2007)
Changes:
-Fixed stack overflow bug

Version 3.08.00 W (931KB) L (1098KB) (12/08/2007)
Changes:
-Added favourites script
-Fixed bug with timezones
-Fixed channel sorting
-Fixed bug in xmltv import
-Extra channels for +1 generator script

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