Rmeden: remove "common problem", that isn't common (and hasn't been seen for years)

2022-03-11T01:35:56Z

remove "common problem", that isn't common (and hasn't been seen for years)

Jamesj at 15:14, 16 July 2008

2008-07-16T15:14:55Z

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==Windows executable for XMLTV==

The XMLTV software is written in Perl and requires a working Perl installation and several modules. This is asking a lot on Windows, so we have a binary distribution (xmltv.exe) made using a tool from Activestate. (Using Autrijus Tang's packaging tool instead is something we'd like to do but have never quite gotten around to.)

Mostly, you can use it the same way as normal, but instead of ''tvgrabfoo args'' you type ''xmltv.exe tvgrabfoo args''.
===Common problems===

If a grabber won't fetch web pages, it could be because of the 'protocols file' in Windows. If you do install perl, you can test with

perl -MLWP::Simple -e "LWP::Simple::getprint 'http://www.google.com/'"

If this says "Bad protocol 'tcp'" then probably the file C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\protocol is bad or missing. Its contents should normally look like

<pre>
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This file contains the Internet protocols as defined by RFC 1700
# (Assigned Numbers).
#
# Format:
#
# [aliases...]

ip 0 IP # Internet protocol
icmp 1 ICMP # Internet control message protocol
ggp 3 GGP # Gateway-gateway protocol
tcp 6 TCP # Transmission control protocol
egp 8 EGP # Exterior gateway protocol
pup 12 PUP # PARC universal packet protocol
udp 17 UDP # User datagram protocol
hmp 20 HMP # Host monitoring protocol
xns-idp 22 XNS-IDP # Xerox NS IDP
rdp 27 RDP # "reliable datagram" protocol
rvd 66 RVD # MIT remote virtual disk
</pre>

You can try to create the file manually, or perhaps try the command:

netsh int ip reset "c:\log.txt"

or try to uninstall and reinstall TCP/IP from Control Panel. See [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=424136&aid=901963&group_id=39046 bug #901963].

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 ==Windows executable for XMLTV==
-The XMLTV software is written in Perl and requires a working Perl installation and several modules. This is asking a lot on Windows, so we have a binary distribution (xmltv.exe) made using a tool from Activestate. (Using Autrijus Tang's packaging tool instead is something we'd like to do but have never quite gotten around to.)
+The XMLTV software is written in Perl and requires a working Perl installation and several modules. This is asking a lot on Windows, so we have a binary distribution (xmltv.exe) made using the PAR::Packer module.
 Mostly, you can use it the same way as normal, but instead of ''tvgrabfoo args'' you type ''xmltv.exe tvgrabfoo args''.

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Rmeden: remove "common problem", that isn't common (and hasn't been seen for years)

Jamesj at 15:14, 16 July 2008