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Known Issues with Character Encoding

Issues with Time Zones

Memory Leaks??

Cleanup List

Feel free to take anything from the list

  • #1880681 the bug was solved (not a bug), the suggestion for Supplementary Files is turning one can of worms into another...
  • tv_grab_huro has no maintainer?
    • #2748362 site changes: holes in the collected programs
    • #2837668 site changes: unexpected hash references
    • #2858285 close it, was "no channels found", the grabber does not fail completely anymore (see status)
    • #2910015 close it, was "no programs on channel 1", test_grabbers tests with that channel succesful

Cleanup SourceForge Project

  • remove group/status/category examples from the tracker (might check for other unused stuff while there)

Check for Breakage caused by LWP::Simple

  • silent uncompression
  • silent code page conversion
  • silent proxy handling

Maybe it's best to move most uses over to our own Get_nice.

Potential Data Sources

  • _cz_arcao: XMLTV export from arcao.com. Provides explicit time offsets.
  • _dk_ontv: XMLTV export from ontv.dk.
  • _eu_phazer: XMLTV service from tvprofil.net aka Phazer XMLTV Service. Notice that they provide timestamps in their local time as floating time which is intepreted as UTC...
  • _it_ambrosa: XMLTV export from ambrosa.net. Explicit about non-commercial use only.
  • _ru_teleguide: XMLTV export from teleguide.info. Provides explicit time offsets.

Configuration API

  • [1] possible extensions/clarifications from a consumers POV
  • list in the supplementary files mapping DVB/ATSC id to grabber/channel. Then let --list-channels & co. enrich channel list with related ids

Data Sinks

  • Check [2] and see if all are mentioned here

Best Practices

Consumers of XMLTV Data

  • be prepared that xmltv ids really might be similar to FQDN (255 characters max.) the longest I've seen in the wild is 69 characters (_es_laguiatv)