met om:. problem in epg

[Koenie]

I use Anatolio's Dutch EPG grabber which works like a charm. However there is one problem which other people in the Netherlands must have as well. On some channels (ie Ketnet - Canvas) where there is a combination of of nets on one channel the EPG starts with a large block (up to 12 hours or so) which just says: Met om:. and then the individual programs are listed after that. GBPVR will then list the Met om:. block and you have to maneuver carefully to get to the actual programs. In the webinterface you can not get to the programs, there only the met om:. block is shown.

Anyone knows and easy trick to get rid of this (or has written a utility to do it)?

[HtV]

Ton (I think his name was) made a epg-filter some time ago I'm still using it and it works very well.
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=11894
When you are from the Netherlands you are probably lucky, you won't have to edit the ini to youir needs (I didn't).

[alibert]

Hi,

you could also try "tv_remove_some_overlapping" from the xmltv release.

NAME

tv_remove_some_overlapping - Remove some overlapping programmes from XMLTV data.
SYNOPSIS

tv_remove_some_overlapping [--help] [--output FILE] [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION

Read one or more XMLTV files and write a file to standard ouput containing the same data, except that some 'magazine' programmes which seem to contain two or more other programmes are removed.

For example, if 'Schools TV' runs from 10:00 to 12:00, and there are two programmes 'History' from 10:00 to 11:00 and 'Geography' from 11:00 to 12:00 on the same channel, then 'Schools TV' could be removed. A programme is removed only if there are two or more other programmes which partition its timeslot, which implies that it and these other programmes must have stop times specified.

To avoid throwing away any real programmes, no programme will be discarded if it has content data other than title and URL.

Filtering this tool won't remove all overlapping programmes but it will deal with the 'big magazine programme containing smaller programmes' data commonly seen from listings sources.

--output FILE write to FILE rather than standard output
SEE ALSO

xmltv(5) .
AUTHOR

Ed Avis, ed@membled.com

-alibert