ATI PVR -- any way to automate getting updated listings from GUIDE+?

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Subject says it all ... has anyone found a clever way to automate
launching the GUIDE+ application, downloading the listing and shutting
down GUIDE+?

*sigh* If I'd just been smart enough to get MythTV working I wouldn't
be using this Windows software ... oh well, maybe I'll revisit the
issue one day.

For those of you who're smarter than I:

http://www.mythtv.org

I got it mostly working with Mandrake 9.1, and the MythWeb network
interface is fabulous ... but I had sound issues I couldn't solve.
Too bad for me!
 
Mister Smith said:
Subject says it all ... has anyone found a clever way to automate
launching the GUIDE+ application, downloading the listing and shutting
down GUIDE+?
Click to expand...
*sigh* If I'd just been smart enough to get MythTV working I wouldn't
be using this Windows software ... oh well, maybe I'll revisit the
issue one day.
Click to expand...
For those of you who're smarter than I:

I got it mostly working with Mandrake 9.1, and the MythWeb network
interface is fabulous ... but I had sound issues I couldn't solve.
Too bad for me!
Click to expand...

I thought MythTV didn't work with ATI Radeon 9800 cards?
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I presume you have an AIW card in that case MythTV wont work. Only BTC
chipsets are supported. The AIW uses the propriarity ATI Rage Theater
or Rage Theater II chips. I comes as no surprise that ATI won't
release info/API's on these chips and that they're not interested in
the linux market (well if can call it "market" that is...)
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You're blaming the wrong people.

The AIWs won't work with MythTV because the open-source, third-party
GATOS drivers for the Rage Theater chip do not fully implement the V4L
API. ATI has provided the GATOS project with the necessary documentation
and with hardware on which to test, and it has been their choice, not
ATI's, to do a partial implementation. If you think you can do better
then the GATOS project<http://gatos.sourceforge.net/> can use your help.

You might find the ATI Linux FAQ
<http://www.ati.com/support/faq/linux.html> to be of interest.

In general ATI has been pretty good about supporting the open source
community.
 
I presume you have an AIW card in that case MythTV wont work. Only BTC
chipsets are supported. The AIW uses the propriarity ATI Rage Theater or
Rage Theater II chips. I comes as no surprise that ATI won't release
info/API's on these chips and that they're not interested in the linux
market (well if can call it "market" that is...)

Regards,

Manu T
 
I should've been clearer ... I wasn't trying to use the AIW with
MythTV, I was using a Phoebe TV Master with a BT878 chip. The AIW was
a gift from a client that I'd put aside against further need, and
figured since I'm too stupid to get MythTV working I'd just do it the
EZ-Spoonfed way.

But MythTV aside, does anyone have any ideas about my original
question, that is, automation of Guide+ listings retrieval? (Other
than programs such as "Push the Freakin' Button" or suchlike ... I may
give that a shot.)

And while I'm asking, how about the skip-ahead question? Googling
reveals it's been raised before, but I can't find any indication it's
been solved.
 
Looks like I must answer my own question: I wasn't Googling right, I
should've searched for pgetv.exe, the GUIDE+ executable. I found
this:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/colemab/GPUpdater/

So far it hasn't worked exactly right but then again I
haven't installed the VB runtimes on this box. Will
report back when/if I have success.
 
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