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I read a message the other day on geekszone that in NZ the tivo was able to avoid recording dups from at least TVNZ7 which got me to looking at my tvguide.xml & I discovered it now has things like this in it.
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">1014022 . 10269880 . </episode-num>

Could this be used to stop it recording dups for us??

What did you use to generate this xmltv file?

Do you know what the two numbers are, and is it on all your shows, or just selected shows?

I'm using EPGCollector (DVB-T version attached) & I have no idea what the two numbers mean but they do appear to be on most shows & I assume tivo must be using something like this to avoid dups??

Can you think of any shows that have repeats on TV1/2/3? So that we can see they have the same id.

OK, I would like to chip in here. I'm in Aus, but we seem to be getting similar data.
#1 & #2 are listed as Ep 13, #3 is Ep 13.

Does this help?

Cheers



#1
<programme start="20120518203230 +1000" stop="20120518213000 +1000" channel="705">
<title>Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</title>
<desc>Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</desc>
<category>Phryne in on the hunt for escaped prisoner Murdoch Foyle. Will she discover the truth behind her sister's mysterious disappearance? CAST: Nicholas Bell</category>
<rating>
<value>PGR</value>
</rating>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">/DR1022V . /DR1022V013S00 . 0</episode-num>
</programme>

#2
<programme start="20120520220500 +1000" stop="20120520230000 +1000" channel="705">
<title>Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</title>
<desc>Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</desc>
<category>Phryne in on the hunt for escaped prisoner Murdoch Foyle. Will she discover the truth behind her sister's mysterious disappearance? CAST: Nicholas Bell</category>
<rating>
<value>PGR</value>
</rating>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">/DR1022V . /DR1022V013S00 . 0</episode-num>
</programme>

Whereas #3
<programme start="20120513220554 +1000" stop="20120513230134 +1000" channel="705">
<title>Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</title>
<desc>Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</desc>
<category>Murder strikes close to home when a young girl is found drowned in Aunt Prudence's water fountain on the eve of a lavish fancy dress party. Phryne and her aunt work together to investigate. CAST: Miriam Margolyes</category>
<rating>
<value>PGR</value>
</rating>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">/DR1022V . /DR1022V012S00 . 0</episode-num>
</programme>

Nistrod, where do your xmltv files come from?

Do all shows have these, or just some?

Can you zip and attach a complete file?

Its an app called EPG Collector, that examines the OTA guide.
I've attached a zip file, but it looks like only certain channels have them, and the data is in different formats!

I just used the option in epg collector to create episode tags fromt he numeric part of the CRID info.

I looked at a couple of programs between TV3 & TV3 +1, and found they were the same


Not sure if that is a good test, but I couldnt think of any programs which they repeat within the week or so of my guide data.

I did the same thing with the same result between TV3 & TV3+1 but I don't think that's a good test..... I also couldn't think of anything on TV2, TV2 or TV3 that was repeated within the week........ unlike on TVNZ7, ChoiceTV & CUE where there are heaps repeated every day.

I wonder what these ones mean. ie, news reports with same id, but different days. It's unlikely they'd be broadcasting repeats of the same news on different days.

Quote: <programme start="20120513110000 +1200" stop="20120513113000 +1200" channel="1405">
<title>News Report</title>
<desc>No synopsis available</desc>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns"> . 33004 . </episode-num>
</programme>

Quote: <programme start="20120514100000 +1200" stop="20120514104000 +1200" channel="1405">
<title>News Report</title>
<desc>No synopsis available</desc>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns"> . 33004 . </episode-num>
</programme>

Quote: <programme start="20120515110000 +1200" stop="20120515113000 +1200" channel="1405">
<title>News Report</title>
<desc>No synopsis available</desc>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns"> . 33004 . </episode-num>
</programme>