2009-11-21T16:24:19+01:00My softwareSoftware projects I worked onThitonhttp://swolter.sdf1.org/pnyx-small.icohttp://swolter.sdf1.org/software/index.xmlCommandBlog2009-05-24T19:24:31+02:002009-05-24T19:24:31+02:00sdf1.org:tvmovie-1-2.article TV Movie programme for XMLTV, version 1.2

I've recently taken the time to scan the remaining channel numbers for additional channels like Premiere and Comedy Central, to write autoconf and automake files for this grabber to ease installation, and to write a standard XMLTV grabber script. All in all, this grabber can now be used like a standard XMLTV grabber.

Download current version 1.2 of the tv_grab_de_tvmovie_clickfinder grabber

 sdf1.org:tvmovie-1-2.article-57 2009-06-15T13:59:17+01:00 2009-06-15T13:59:17+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV, version 1.2 Steltek Seems to require manual intervention when running. Mine got stuck with: replace /tmp/tv_grab_de_tvmovie_clickfinder-mythtv/091.tv1? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: sdf1.org:tvmovie-1-2.article-58 2009-09-08T17:59:00+01:00 2009-09-08T17:59:00+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV, version 1.2 Mike H. @Steltek Changed line 46 from system("unzip", "-q", "-P", '�������', "-d", "$tempdir", to system("unzip", "-q", "-o", "-P", '�������', "-d", "$tempdir", "-o" tells unzip to overwrite files without question. 2009-04-21T01:07:06+02:002009-04-14T01:26:43+02:00sdf1.org:tvmovie-1-1.article TV Movie programme for XMLTV, version 1.1

There have been sev­er­al bugs in the TV Movie grab­ber script, most promi­nent­ly bro­ken day­light sav­ing time sup­port. Thanks ev­ery­one for point­ing these out. I have im­proved the script in sev­er­al re­spects and pack­aged these changes for the ver­sion 1.1. Changes are:

  • Fixed day­light sav­ing time
  • Fixed XML dec­la­ra­tion for ISO-8859-1
  • Fixed orig­i­nal ti­tle for movies (was in­cor­rect­ly parsed as sub-ti­tle)
  • Fixed star-rat­ing (in­cor­rect­ly dis­played as rat­ing)
  • Added out­put of FSK rat­ing
  • Added ex­tend­ed cat­e­go­ry out­put
  • Added coun­try pars­ing and canon­i­fi­ca­tion
  • Re­duced chan­nel list in XML file to ac­tu­al­ly present chan­nels
  • Added Mono/Stereo/Dol­by cat­e­go­riza­tion
  • Added black/white pars­ing
  • Cleanup in code.

Down­load cur­rent ver­sion 1.1 of script

P.S.: In the code pub­lished be­fore the 21st of April a ter­ri­bly stupid bug pre­vents prop­er date/time pars­ing. Fixed it.

 sdf1.org:tvmovie-1-1.article-46 2009-04-14T15:28:35+01:00 2009-04-14T15:28:35+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV, version 1.1 Reisner Anselm anselm.reisner@googlemail.com Hello First of all thanks that seems to be a great grabber but when I try to compile the decode.cpp file with g++ -o decode decode.cpp I get many errrors and end up with an exit status of 1. What do I make wrong? It explicitly complains about a undefined reference to `channels' sdf1.org:tvmovie-1-1.article-47 2009-04-14T20:25:12+01:00 2009-04-14T20:25:12+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV, version 1.1 Thiton Hello Reisner, it's missing a file. I've sorted the tabular information and the database stuff into extra files to make the package more readable. Try g++ -o decode decode.cpp tables.cpp Sorry for the old README file. Regards, Thiton 2009-05-24T19:28:50+02:002009-02-18T14:31:24+01:00sdf1.org:tvmovie.article TV Movie programme for XMLTV

Recently, the TV Movie paper has changed its publication format for electronic programme data to match its new ClickFinder software. Unfortunately, a Linux version of this software is still missing; to remedy this, I have written a converter for these data to XMLTV and a script automating the EPG data acquisition.

I donate this script to the public. However, since the TV Movie paper probably finances its Click-Finder program with advertisements[1], please make sure you visit their web page regularily or find some other while to make this service worth their while.

UPDATE: Version 1.2 of this script is available.

[1] An assumption I could not check due to an incompatibility with Wine

 sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-37 2009-03-06T00:29:17+01:00 2009-03-06T00:29:17+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Lorus That Script seems to be amazing, but I have a questtion before i'm going to test it. what to fill in the channels-file? The Readme-File says: Edit the channels file to contain all channels to grab, with one XMLTV id per line. That means, something like this? urn:xmltv.info:de:ard urn:xmltv.info:de:zdf ... But the channels-file is already filled with some other synthax, like: ard.de zdf.de ... So what is the right Synthax, to get this Script work? sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-38 2009-03-06T00:30:06+01:00 2009-03-06T00:30:06+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Lorus That Script seems to be amazing, but I have a questtion before i'm going to test it. what to fill in the channels-file? The Readme-File says: Edit the channels file to contain all channels to grab, with one XMLTV id per line. That means, something like this? urn:xmltv.info:de:ard urn:xmltv.info:de:zdf ... But the channels-file is already filled with some other synthax, like: ard.de zdf.de ... So what is the right Synthax, to get this Script work? sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-39 2009-03-06T09:11:44+01:00 2009-03-06T09:11:44+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Thiton Hi Lorus, this script uses the URLs, not the URNs. You can get a list of the available URLs together with the familiar plain-text callsigns by running decode --list-channels . You got the syntax just right. If the URLs don't suit you, you might consider changing the channelsList table in decoder.cpp . Hope that helps, Steve sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-40 2009-03-06T19:30:30+01:00 2009-03-06T19:30:30+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Lorus Ok, I just changed the XMLTV ID's of my stations to the URL Synthax. Now it works like a charm :-) Wonderful work :-) 2 little things: 1) It don't gather information for nick 2) What to do to add an additional station, i.e. dmax? I think it's part of the free section of tvmovie, but isn't listed in your script sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-41 2009-03-08T23:32:10+01:00 2009-03-08T23:32:10+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Thiton Hi Lorus, thanks. For Nick, I have no idea why the grabber would break. I've just tried manually (downloading channel with number 190 and decoding it), and it returned programme data for today. For missing channels, you'd need to scan the TV Movie site for the channel IDs. I've done this by a loop like "for chan in `seq 250`; do wget http://tvmovie/$i.cftv; done", with the exact URL to be found in the tvmovie.sh script. I've only scanned channels up to roughly 250; there might be more around. If you find more, add them to the channelList array in decode.cpp, and I'd be happy to integrate these into the upstream. Regards, Thiton sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-43 2009-04-02T19:30:36+01:00 2009-04-02T19:30:36+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Horny Great! Thank you very much for this new grabber after tv_grab_prisma doesn't work anymore... This one works so much better :-) sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-44 2009-04-11T23:42:15+01:00 2009-04-11T23:42:15+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Harald Thanks, great tool, one little problem - start times of all programs in the db are one hour too early. Guess it's a DST issue (I'm in CEST zone), I'm a bit confused about the "epoch" part of the source code, maybe somebody else knows how to fix this easily. Thanks! sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-45 2009-04-14T00:34:31+01:00 2009-04-14T00:34:31+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Thiton Hello Harald, thanks for the hint. Yes, this is actually a DST issue - TV Movie seems to give DST-adjusted times in their files. I have fixed that together with a few other issues in the 1.1 release. Let me know if the issue persists. Best regards, Thiton sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-48 2009-04-26T11:49:07+01:00 2009-04-26T11:49:07+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Harald Hi Thiton, thanks for your update. Now the start/stop times are in GMT, thus 2h earlier than at my local timezone (CEST). Now that we got the GMT right, we just have to adjust the timezone, I guess... Best, Harald sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-49 2009-04-26T13:00:50+01:00 2009-04-26T13:00:50+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Thiton Hi Harald, as far as I interpret the results, the times are correct and given in GMT, which is in my humble opinion a good fail-safe default. Any program processing XMLTV data should be able to process these times and put them into local time zone. Do you have any application that can't? If so, you could try changing the time-printing code (Database.h, lines 130 and 132) to use localtime() instead of gmtime() and then make sure the strftime() in line 132 prints the proper time zone with it. If this change is of wider interest, I'd be happy to integrate it into the upstream. Best Regards, Thiton sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-50 2009-04-26T20:45:00+01:00 2009-04-26T20:45:00+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Harald Hi Thiton, mythfilldatabase doesn't seem to interpret timezone "+0000" as GMT, so applying the changes you suggested to Database.h did the trick: 130c130 < broken = gmtime(&unixTime); --- > broken = localtime(&unixTime); 132c132 < strftime(buffer, 30, "%Y%m%d%H%M%S +0000", broken); --- > strftime(buffer, 30, "%Y%m%d%H%M%S %Z", broken); Thanks, Thiton, great script! Best, Harald sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-51 2009-04-28T21:45:32+01:00 2009-04-28T21:45:32+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Opa[TROLL] Hello, I just cant find out how to set the xmltv IDs I always get Unknown xmltv channel identifier: 3.br-online.de - Skipping channel. for every single channel. What do I have to enter as ID in mythtv? sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-52 2009-04-30T10:42:05+01:00 2009-04-30T10:42:05+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Thiton Hello Opa, this is an error from mythfilldatabase, right? Probably, you need to either remove 3.br-online.de from the "channels" configuration file of the script or add it to mythtv. Additionally, did you check if the source ID in the tvmovie.sh script is correct? Regards, Thiton sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-53 2009-05-01T10:12:58+01:00 2009-05-01T10:12:58+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Opa[TROLL] Yes, it is an error from mythfilldatabase. The problem occurs, when the script tries to sort the programm information into the database. The problem is, that I don't know what xmltv-ids I have to enter in mythtvs channel configuration. I think it is the same thing as above with the URL and URN thing. But I can't figure out, what I have to do. Regards, Opa[TROLL] sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-54 2009-05-03T15:40:30+01:00 2009-05-03T15:40:30+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Thiton Hello Opa, you can get a list of all used XMLTV ID's together with normal callsigns by running "decode --list-channels". Try to insert those into the mythtv database. sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-55 2009-05-05T17:45:38+01:00 2009-05-05T17:45:38+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Opa[TROLL] Hello again, I worked it out now :) the problem was, that my channels are on source 2 and not source 1. But in your mythfilldatabase line, you hardcoded the 1. You could maybe add a comment there sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-56 2009-05-05T20:04:24+01:00 2009-05-05T20:04:24+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Opa[TROLL] Thank you very much for your help, but the problem was, that the source 1 is hardcoded in the mythfilldatabase line... but my source has the number 2.... Regards, Opa[TROLL] sdf1.org:tvmovie.article-59 2009-11-21T16:24:19+01:00 2009-11-21T16:24:19+01:00 Comment on TV Movie programme for XMLTV Wolfgang I tried your script on my mythbuntu 9.10. The download of the files seems to work but I get the following error at the decoding: $ /usr/local/libexec/decode_tvmovie_clickfinder tvdaten-free-001.cftv terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): std::bad_alloc Aborted Can you help me? 2008-04-05T21:32:49+02:002008-04-05T21:32:49+02:00sdf1.org:mklircrc.article mklircrc – Generating LIRC configuration files

Writ­ing a LIRC con­fig­u­ra­tion file is the ma­jor part of any re­mote con­trol work with Lin­ux. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, the low de­gree of script­ing avail­able in LIRC makes this a lot hard­er – there is no ab­strac­tion from the but­tons on the re­mote con­trol to a gen­er­al con­cept of the task one wants to achieve with the re­mote, which could then be in­ter­pret­ed by clients in their re­spec­tive ways.

To ad­dress that is­sue, I wrote mk­lir­crc. By an­no­tat­ing your lir­cd.conf with a few words, you can tell mk­lir­crc which high-lev­el task like "pause" or "raise vol­ume" you want to get done, and the script will write the LIRC con­trol file for you, in­clud­ing all ap­pli­ca­tions it knows about – cur­rent­ly mythtv, xine and mplay­er, but more are easy to add.

Down­load source tar­ball

 2008-03-28T16:48:24+01:002008-03-28T16:19:39+01:00sdf1.org:debateTimer.article DebateTimer: A MIDP application for timing debates

I proud­ly present you De­bateTimer, a MIDP ap­pli­ca­tion for your Ja­va-ca­pa­ble mo­bile phone that sup­ports you in tim­ing a for­mal de­bate. After en­ter­ing a speech time, a timer is start­ed which will give a num­ber of sig­nals:

  • Start of ques­tion­ing phase. Oc­curs not at all on speech­es of one minute or less, at 30 sec­onds on speech­es of two min­utes or less, and at 60 sec­onds on all oth­er speech­es.
  • End of ques­tion­ing phase. Oc­curs not at all on speech­es of one minute or less, 30 sec­onds be­fore the end of speech sig­nal on speech­es of four min­utes or less, and 60 sec­onds be­fore the end of speech sig­nal on all oth­er speech­es.
  • End of speech sig­nal. For clar­i­ty, this sig­nal is giv­en twice in short suc­ces­sion.
  • Over­time beeps. 15 sec­onds af­ter the end of the speech, the soft­ware starts beep­ing re­peat­ed­ly.

For tim­ing com­pet­i­tive de­bates in Bri­tish Par­lia­ment Style or Open Par­lia­ment De­bate, the us­age is ex­treme­ly sim­ple: En­ter the length of speech and hit the Start but­ton. Every time your mo­bile beeps, ham­mer. Divert con­cen­tra­tion to the re­al tasks at hand.

JAD file for De­bateTimer

JAR file for De­bateTimer

Source code