XMLTV 0.5.31 Gather television listings, process them and organize your viewing. XMLTV is a file format for storing TV listings, defined in xmltv.dtd. Then there are several tools to produce and process these listings. Please see doc/QuickStart for documentation on what each program does, and xmltv.dtd for documentation on the file format. * Changes in this release Summer time changeover fixes; in particular avoid errors about 'impossible dates' (those during the 1 hour summer time changover) by assuming winter time for such dates. New U.S./Canadian grabber (tv_grab_na_dd) using Zap2it's Data Direct Service. Instructions for signing up is in the man page and --config option. Please migrate off (tv_grab_na), it will be dropped from a future distribution. Zap2it has made this new method available to reduce their server load. The new method is much, much faster and includes more detail. If there are any issues preventing migration, please raise them on the mailing lists or as a feature request. XML::Twig 3.10 is now required and if you want to use tv_grab_na_dd you'll need SOAP::Lite as well. Some improvements to tv_grab_de_tvtoday, tv_grab_se, and tv_grab_uk_rt; small fixes to tv_check. Fixed test suite on Cygwin. * Installation % perl Makefile.PL % make % make test % make install To install in a custom directory, replace the first line with something like % perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/wherever/ The system requirements are perl 5.6 or later, and a few Perl modules. You will be asked about some optional components; if you choose not to install them then there are fewer dependencies. The full list of needed modules is: XML::Parser 2.34 XML::Twig 3.10 XML::Writer 0.4.6 Date::Manip 5.42a LWP 5.65 Memoize (included with perl 5.8 and later) Storable (included with perl 5.8 and later) HTML::TreeBuilder (for many of the grabbers) HTML::Parser 3.34 (for some of the grabbers) Tk::TableMatrix (if you want to run tv_check) CGI (if you want to run tv_pick_cgi) Text::Kakasi (if you want to run tv_grab_jp) XML::LibXML (if you want to run tv_grab_se) SOAP::Lite (if you want to run tv_grab_na_dd) Where a version number is given any later version also ought to work. You may have difficulty with the XML modules on perl 5.8.0 - if so send mail to the xmltv-users list. Other perl versions should be OK. The following modules are recommended, but the software still works without them: Term::ProgressBar (displays pretty progress meters) PerlIO::gzip (for perl 5.8+) (makes tv_imdb a bit faster) Lingua::Preferred 0.2.4 (helps with multilingual listings) Unicode::String (non-ASCII chars in LaTeX output) Lingua::EN::Numbers::Ordinate (not really needed, to be honest) And the Log::TraceMessages module is useful for debugging, but not needed for normal use. All of these can be installed with tarballs downloaded from CPAN or (hopefully) using the CPAN shell program: 'perl -MCPAN -e shell', then 'install XML::Twig' and so on. But you may find it easier to search for packaged versions from your OS vendor or others - places which distribute a packaged version of xmltv will often provide the modules it needs too. * Author and copying This is free software distributed under the GPL, see COPYING. But if you would like to use the code under some other conditions, please do ask. There are many who have contributed code, they are credited in individual source files. There is a web page at and a Sourceforge project 'XMLTV'. There are some mailing lists: xmltv-announce@lists.sourceforge.net xmltv-users@lists.sourceforge.net xmltv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net You ought to subscribe to the announce list at least. Contact the users list with most problems. -- Ed Avis, ed@membled.com, 2004-03-21 $Id: README,v 1.104 2004/03/21 14:51:33 epaepa Exp $