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NAME
     tv_grab_eu_epgdata - Grab TV listings for parts of Europe.

SYNOPSIS
     tv_grab_eu_epgdata --help tv_grab_eu_epgdata tv_grab_eu_epgdata --version

     tv_grab_eu_epgdata --capabilities

     tv_grab_eu_epgdata --description

     tv_grab_eu_epgdata [--config-file FILE]
			[--days N] [--offset N]
			[--output FILE] [--quiet] [--debug]

     tv_grab_eu_epgdata --configure [--config-file FILE]

     tv_grab_eu_epgdata --configure-api [--stage NAME]
			[--config-file FILE]
			[--output FILE]

     tv_grab_eu_epgdata --list-channels [--config-file FILE]
			[--output FILE] [--quiet] [--debug]

     tv_grab_eu_epgdata --preferredmethod

DESCRIPTION
     Output TV and listings in XMLTV format for many stations available in Eu-
     rope.

     First you must run tv_grab_eu_epgdata --configure to choose which stations
     you want to receive.

     Then running tv_grab_eu_epgdata with no arguments will get a listings for
     the stations you chose for five days including today.

     This is a commercial grabber.  Go to http://wiki.xmltv.org/in-
     dex.php/EU_epgdata to sign up or send an e-mail to service@epgdata.com for
     further information.  It's also possible to ask for a test account.

OPTIONS
     --configure Prompt for which stations to download and write the configura-
     tion file.

     --config-file FILE Set the name of the configuration file, the default is
     ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_eu_epgdata.conf.	This is the file written by --configure
     and read when grabbing.

     --gui OPTION Use this option to enable a graphical interface to be used.
     OPTION may be 'Tk', or left blank for the best available choice.  Addi-
     tional allowed values of OPTION are 'Term' for normal terminal output (de-
     fault) and 'TermNoProgressBar' to disable the use of Term::ProgressBar.

     --output FILE When grabbing, write output to FILE rather than standard out-
     put.

     --days N When grabbing, grab N days rather than 5.

     --offset N Start grabbing at today + N days.

     --quiet Do not show status messages.

     --debug Provide more information on progress to stderr to help in debug-
     ging.

     --list-channels	Output a list of all channels that data is available
			   for. The list is in xmltv-format.

     --version Show the version of the grabber.

     --help Print a help message and exit.

     --preferredmethod Shows the preferred method for downloading data
			  (see http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XmltvCapabili-
     ties) =head1 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

     The environment variable HOME can be set to change where configuration
     files are stored. All configuration is stored in $HOME/.xmltv/. On Windows,
     it might be necessary to set HOME to a path without spaces in it.

SUPPORTED CHANNELS
     For a list of supported channels, see the channel_ids file distributed with
     this grabber.  If additional channels are available, you will receive a
     warning when you run --configure.

     Once I am aware that new channels are available, the channel_ids file will
     be updated and this grabber will automatically fetch an updated copy.

COMPATIBILITY
     The channel ids used in this grabber aim to be mostly possible with other
     grabbers, eg tv_grab_de_prisma and some other grabbers for other countries.
     NOTE: Retaining compatibility was not always possible or practicable.  You
     can get a list of channel ids using --list-channels

AUTHOR
     Michael Haas, laga -at- laga -dot- ath -dot - cx. This documentation is
     copied from tv_grab_se_swedb by Mattias Holmlund, which in turn was copied
     from tv_grab_uk by Ed Avis.  Parts of the code are copied from
     tv_grab_se_swedb and tv_grab_na_dd (in XMLTV 0.5.45) as well as various
     other sources.

BUGS
     There's no proper support for channels with locally different schedules.
     For example, if your EPG package is a German one, you'll get the EPG sched-
     ule for Germany even if you preferred the Swiss schedule which is also
     available in the data (for some channels at least).

     Timezones are not handled correctly. Currently, you have to enter your time
     zone manually during the configure step. You have to do this every time
     your time zone changes, eg for daylight saving time ("Sommerzeit" and "Nor-
     malzeit" for my fellow Germans).  I'll try to have this fixed for the next
     XMLTV release.  Please see this thread for further discussion and some ad-
     ditional issues:
	 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tv.xmltv.devel/7919 FYI: you can
     modify the time zone directly in the config file which is usually located
     at ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_eu_epgdata.conf or ~/.mythtv/FOO.xmltv where FOO is the
     name of your video source in MythTV.

     If the data source gives us data for one day, they'll also cover a part of
     the following day.  Maybe this should be fixed. Please note: data is not
     overlapping! So if we want to get data for today, we might as well grab
     yesterday because that'll give us EPG till ~5am for today.

     I'm sure this list is not complete. Let me know if you encounter additional
     problems.

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