Well i'm bored of Acidrip now.. not that I'll stop making it, but it's moving much more now towards tweaks and small fixes, so i'm after something hew to start with

i've been using a homemade tv recording script http://thirtythreeandathird.net/simple for a while now and I think i'm going to heavily develop this concept by making a PHP tv listings guide and recording framework. so you can load your guide page, find the program you want, and click record, this will then use mencoder (of course!) to record the program via an atd process (which is basically what my "simple" script does, but quite crudely). Also will have the ability to manage the scheduled jobs, delete record requests, and also to browse, delete and playback recorded shows via the web interface.

I suppose this is kinda like a PVR / Freevo thang, but from a much less all inclusive point of view... those apps tend to be somewhat overwhelming i find. I don't want to turn a box into a dedictateed recorder, I just want a nice way to record programs reliably.... and from wherever I want... the number of times i've forgotten to set it in the morning and have no way of getting in...!

sound good to anyone? not planning on starting for a little while but I thought I'd see what people thought, and how it might be even better.

I'd quite possibly also be seeking a few non-UK people to help create listings engines for their own countries (as there is of course no standard way of getting tv listings)

thanks

Right at the end you covered my thoughts

I'll be looking forward to testing it! I'm quite worthless actually, and have used/looked over your simple script several times but cannot for the life of me, figure out how to grab the listings for the US/Northwest.

What I use now is even cruder, a simple cron to capture specific channels at specific times, but nothing more really.



As good as AcidRip was, I can't wait to give this a run!

Cool

This is most likely of no use to you, but...

I used to have a personal yahoo page under "My Yahoo" that would list, among other things, up to 30 or so channels from my cable provider with listings starting at a specific time. They must have used my address info to determine my cable provider and determine the channels that were offered. Perhaps you could find something useful there?

Well there are ways to easily track down an IP to the country it's in, but most likely i'tll be a one off thing, and most likely outside of my app itself.

I've been looking at the XMLTV library again, and it seems to have become fliexible enough to use now. that currently works for about 12 countries officially, which is nice.

coming along nicely... maybe that's where google got the URL from!! *if* my workstation is turned on.

Hmmm

Looks like a very nice columnized list of programs? Is there more to it, or are you just showing us some of the progress? Looks very nice if that's what things will look like on my box when I'm done!

Cool

that's all there is at the moment. one bit at a time...

btw, if anyone's good with css, and tell me how to stop that stupid saw-tooth kinda layout, please let me know! presumably i have to arrange the divs left to rioght, rather than vertaically as tthey won't wrap otherwise.

Hey there Acid_kewpie. I will be honest and say that I have only had a semester of C++ in university, but if I can help you out in someway, please let me know. Right now I live in Japan and I can read and speak some Japanese so if you can point me to what I would need to do in order to make a listing for the channels then I would like to help out. That is, if it is not too difficult to do. Otherwise, well, just blowin smoke.

thanks for the offer, I'm currently undecided wether to release it or not, there are programs like mythtv and freevo that do this and a lot lot more aswell, so i'm wondering if anyone would care about it. but then again, mythtv and freevo do a lot lot more, which means a lot lot more complexity and such, so maybe it will come out. at the moment i don't *think* xmltv supports any asian countries, might be wrong. if you wanted i'm sure i could send you the source...

Yep, acid, Google picks up LQ links very quickly.

well i found ou to my cost.... i came home one day and found 2.4gb worth of MTV clogging up my system.....! i added a password pretty quick after that!

From watching my Apache logs I have seen that Google will pick up a link on LQ in a few days. If the system is on enough, it will start crawling through the other available pages within a few weeks or a month.
As I was monitoring it I found it interesting.
I can tell my friends to type:
amazing webpage wow
into the Google search box and click the "I'm feeling lucky" button now.