Project: vdr2xmltv

Conversion of epg.data from VDR into XMLTV data format for MMS

What is vdr2xmltv?

The idea behind vdr2xmltv is, that if you have a VDR running, there is usually a well filled and more or less up-to-date EPG file on your hard disk anyway. So why just don't use it for MMS also. With vdr2xmltv it's not necessary anymore to use the original xmltv application to get data usually very slowly and just for a small bunch of channels and you never know when the access to your download site is going to change again. Vdr2xmltv takes your epg.data and converts it into xmltv file format, so MMS or other applications can use it.

Download:

The latest version and the archive:

Installation:

Installation and configuration:

Download the latest version
extract it into a folder of your choise. Adjust the vdr2xmltv.cfg (self-explaining)

Install this package for perl:

Debian:

#apt-get install libtime-modules-perl

Gentoo:

#emerge Time-modules

Add vdr2xmltv to your /etc/mms/config in the EPG section, and run it manually the first time ( make sure MMS finds the new created TV.xml ).
```
 epg_update_script = /path/to/your/vdr2xmltv 
```
start MMS

New features in Version 0.0.2-2:

simple error-handling
help, version and custom localtion for config added
sorting order now the same like in channels.conf (if given)
new config-file (vdr2xmltv.cfg)

Restrictions/Bugs:

only this fields are implemented:

programme
start-time
stop-time
start-time
sub-titles
description

no channel logos yet
time is fix to GMT+1
Language is set to "de"

Note:

leave the field "channels_conf" in the vdr2xmltv.cfg empty, if you don't have one.

Last updated on:

2006-12-18 16:22 GMT+1