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Bug#166931: ITP: xmltv -- XMLTV is a set of utilities to manage your TV viewing



On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:01:17AM -0500, Andrew Lenharth wrote:

Phew - that was on my ToPackage list.

--
Paul

> 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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