For users of MythTV, this weekend was the "cutoff" for the Zap2It DataDirect service. Although technically Zap2it is still providing listings, they could cut it off at any time (and probably will), so everyone is supposed to transition to the new SchedulesDirect service.  SchedulesDirect is (currently) an identical service to Zap2it, with the difference of now costing $$.  Current pricing is $15 for 3 months of listings, but they expect to drop this down to $20 a year once they hit break-even (which they already have, thankfully).

I use KnoppMyth for my MythTV, and unfortunately they have not yet released a new version to accomodate the SchedulesDirect transition.  Fortunately, Cecil (an all around awesome guy and KnoppMyth maintainer) posted in the forums a set of commands to upgrade the MythTV to the latest 0.20-fixes branch.  It’s something like this:


wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xmltv/xmltv-0.5.48.tar.bz2
tar xjvf xml<tab>
cd xml<tab>
perl Ma<tab> PREFIX=/usr
make
make test
su
make install
exit
cd..
svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-20-fixes/mythtv
svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-20-fixes/mythplugins
cd mythtv
./configure –prefix=/usr –arch=i586 –enable-dvb –enable-firewire –dvb-path=/usr/include –enable-xvmc –enable-xvmc-vld –enable-opengl-vsync –enable-mmx –enable-proc-opt –enable-memalign-hack –enable-xvmc-pro
qmake mythtv.pro
make
su
make install
exit
cd ../mythp<tab>
./configure –prefix=/usr –enable-all –disable-festival  –enable-fftw –enable-sdl –enable-aac –enable-new-exif
qmake mythplugins.pro
make
su
make install

I did this Sunday Night, and I’m happy to report that it worked perfectly.  Once those steps are finished, you do have to reload the MythWeather plugin with the patches to fix the weather-channel changes, and you do have to rebuild the KnoppMyth menu options (both are covered within that forum post), but it seems to be working great.

Another data point for the proponents of the ease of Open-Source :)
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