"Record All New Episodes" choice

[sub]

Of all the XMLTV files people have sent me in the past, I've seen very very few with this information. USA might have been the only place. This puts any features that rely on it very low on my priority list.

[numatrix]

Understandable. Maybe that's a good reason for me to get off my butt and learn .NET so I can write a plugin that does it more directly. :-)

[Jeff]

reven,

One easy way to do it is the way I do it with rectracker. After every recording in postprocessing.bat it stores the shows information (Title + description + subtitle + unique id) in the database.

When a new show is scheduled it would just check against that database to see if it has already been recorded. It would not really be new episodes but onces that have never been recorded with gbpvr.

I do the same thing in the video archive plug-in now. It is an updocumented feature that I;ve been testing for the last month or so at home. It is nice to just tell GBPVR to seasin record everything it fins and then trim the list with the plug-in. I plan to document the configuraiton property in the next release.

Jeff

[bgowland]

the reason why sub hasnt done this in recordings etc, is that xmltv doesnt provide information about whether a show is a new episode or not.

The xmltv file pulled from the Radio Times web-site has a <previously shown/> tag/field (don't know the correct XML terminology).

I just looked at Joey as an example (Sunday nights, same episode shown again Monday). The Monday episodes are flagged with <previously shown/>. Also checked The Coach Trip shown weekday afternoons and repeated next day early morning - the early morning repeats are marked <previously shown/>.

Is this a Radio Times extension to xmltv, i.e., non-standard or is it just that it isn't globally implemented by all xmltv providers?

Brian

[sub]

This is also very rare. Definitely not global. Nearly all XMLTV files I've seen look like this:

<programme start="200503311300" stop="200503311400" channel="03">
<title>1-800-missing</title>
<sub-title>Ties That Bind</sub-title>
<desc>The girls investigate the disappearance of a bride and groom.</desc>
</programme>

[jasjol]

Also in my EPG in Sweden the date is used for the year a show or serie was shown for the first time - for example 2002

[bgowland]

This is also very rare. Definitely not global. Nearly all XMLTV files I've seen look like this:

<programme start="200503311300" stop="200503311400" channel="03">
<title>1-800-missing</title>
<sub-title>Ties That Bind</sub-title>
<desc>The girls investigate the disappearance of a bride and groom.</desc>
</programme>

That's pretty much the minimum that the XMLTVRT grabber provides for any programme. The Radio Times as a publication is pretty comprehensive with it's information and I presume the data source available from their website is linked into that. Looking at the XMLTV pages on Sourceforge, it seems only start, stop, channel and title are mandatory and that grabbers may or may not choose to generate output for any other data available.