Bug#166931: ITP: xmltv -- XMLTV is a set of utilities to manage your TV viewing
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-10-29
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : xmltv
Version : 0.5.2
Upstream Author : Ed Avis <ed@membled.com>
* URL : http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/
* License : GPL
Description : XMLTV is a set of utilities to manage your TV viewing
XMLTV is a set of utilities to manage your TV viewing. They work with
TV listings stored in the XMLTV format, which is based on XML. The idea
is to separate out the backend (getting the listings) from the frontend
(displaying them for the user), and to implement useful operations like
picking out your favourite programmes as filters that read and write XML
documents.
There are five backends at present, grabbing TV listings for Canada, the
USA, the UK, Germany, Austria, Sweden and Norway. There are filters to
sort the listings by date, to remove shows that have already been
broadcast, and a couple of programmes to organize your viewing by
storing preferences of what shows you watch. There are a couple of
backends to produce printed output.
This software is still being developed and most of the tools are
command-line based, but at least many of them have manual pages.
Initial packaging is almost done, I expect to upload within the week.
This packages is used by several tv viewing applications, including most
pvr programs. I am packaging this to make installing (and eventually
packaging) mythtv easier (once it's dependence on libmp3lame can be
removed).
Andrew Lenharth
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux vilya 2.4.19 #3 Thu Oct 24 19:59:40 EDT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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