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[slipperyslope]

I have directv and I want to get the program listings for all my channels days in advance? Anyone know where I can get this type of thing? I went to tvguide.com but their listings suck because it only shows 1.5 hours at a time. I want to view all the shows for the day on one page.

The reason I am looking for this is because I am going to try and build my own tivo(Yeah it will probably cost 5x as much as a tivo if I just bought it). I plan to use Linux and some mpeg encoding. I haven't ironed out all the details but I need to be able to get channel programming so that I can just tell it to record at certain times on certain channels. I figured I would just download a webpage everyday and parse out all the info I need. The big obstacle is going to be interfacing with my directv receiver to change the channels. I don't want to worry about that right now.

Anyways,

Jim

 

[aphex]

DirectTV dosent have its own interactive program guide? I thought it had the same thing as digital cable... Maybe im mistaken...

 

[GL]

I use my AIW Radeon as a TiVo. It comes with Guide+ software that has listings up to 7 days in advance. I'm not sure how well the listings would work for you considering you're not on cable but using DirecTV, but I'm sure it would only be a matter of rearranging channel numbers (perhaps some of the specialty channels on DirecTV would be missing).

Note that Guide+ is bundled with ATI cards (I think only the AIWs and perhaps the TV Wonder). It also works only in Windows as I haven't seen a linux port.

 

[slipperyslope]

Well the problem with those two suggests are the following:

I can't really write software to interface with the built in guide on the directv receiver. Well I guess I could but I don't think that is something that would be easy.

As for the ATI thing. I don't think I would be able to interface with it either. With a webpage I can write an application to download a webpage and parse out all the channel listings and store them in any format I want.

I don't have to use Linux but I figured that if I am going to put time into a standalone box then the OS needs to be 99.9% stable. I don't need 99% of the stuff included in win2k. The OS will be very stripped down. It will just need networking support and mpeg encoding support. I plan to write all the other software.


Jim