Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: > Rob Davis wrote: >> Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: >>> Oops, forgot the scripts;-) >>> >>> Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> Having been dissatisfied with performance and features of xmltv2vdr >>>> (too slow, no credits/category information in epg.data) I have created >>>> a new script (based on AWK), that can be found in the attachment. >>>> >>>> If you want to try it, put your channels.conf.xmltv in one folder >>>> with these two scripts, and then run cat *.xml | ./xmltv2epg > epg. >>>> >>>> My mileage: 54MB XML -> 18MB EPG in 44 minuties (xmltv2vdr used to >>>> take 9 hours). >>>> >> >> Looks good, but what does the command line look like? >> >> > Well, do a "cat *.xml | ./xmltv2epg > epg" if you have many separate xml > files. > Otherwise, ./xmltv2epg file.xml > epg should suffice. > > Sorry chaps to go back to an old thread.. How would you send epg back into vdr? I know you could just use it directly from vdradmin, but I would like to append the xmltv listings to data already downloaded. Should I just cat >>epg.data - or do I need to upload it using an svdr command? -- Latest news on http://www.streetcredo.org.uk/rob Rob Davis