TV Guide edit Genre for Kodi

[sammy3]

Hi 
I'm using nextpvr to get uk freeview dvb-t and collecting ota epg data.
Most genres are correct but all TV dramas are appearing as "Adult Movie / drama".

I would like to map these all to a more appropriate genre (to stop everything looking like pron in the guide).
Is there anyway to edit this my end?
I've seen the "xbmc-genre-translation.xml" file in the npvr public user directory - does npvr read and use this?


Thanks

[mvallevand]

You'd need to change the international standard for DVB https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/300...11101p.pdf page 40

Martin

[sub]

Most genres are correct but all TV dramas are appearing as "Adult Movie / drama".

One of two possible causes:

1/ Most likely your broadcaster is just sending crappy genre categorization for these shows. As Martin said, the names for these are defined by a standard.

2/ When it comes to genre from DVB sources, the broadcaster can send up to four genre for a show. Kodi only takes a single genre, so NextPVR supplies it the first genre. There is a slight possibility your broadcaster is roughly categorizing a first genre, and giving something more specific as a secondary genre and kodi doesn't see it.

[mvallevand]

Since NextPVR is mapping all Drama to 8

<genre name="Drama" type="16" subtype="8"/>

you could map it to

<genre name="Drama" type="16" subtype="0"/>

If it is NextPVR doing the mapping and not OTA

Martin

[sammy3]

Since NextPVR is mapping all Drama to 8

  <genre name="Drama" type="16" subtype="8"/>

you could map it to

  <genre name="Drama" type="16" subtype="0"/>

If it is NextPVR doing the mapping and not OTA

Martin

Hi sorry where would I change this? Thanks


 

When it comes to genre from DVB sources, the broadcaster can send up to four genre for a show. Kodi only takes a single genre, so NextPVR supplies it the first genre. There is a slight possibility your broadcaster is roughly categorizing a first genre, and giving something more specific as a secondary genre and kodi doesn't see it.

Hi I have looked through my kodi EPG database file and it does appear to have picked up a subtype along the way (16 8) for tv dramas. All other entries have no subtype.

[sub]

Hi I have looked through my kodi EPG database file and it does appear to have picked up a subtype along the way (16 8) for tv dramas. All other entries have no subtype.

Actually, that's not quite what I mean. The kodi's genre type and subtype are in effect a single NextPVR genre entry (ie, top 4 bit nibble and bottom 4 bit nibble of a 8 bit byte). A show can have up to four of these genre bytes.

[sub]

For type 16, this is "0x1" in the top nibble, from this list of entries:

genreMapping[0x10] = "Movie - drama";
genreMapping[0x11] = "Movie - detective/thriller";
genreMapping[0x12] = "Movie - adventure/western/war";
genreMapping[0x13] = "Movie - science fiction/fantasy/horror";
genreMapping[0x14] = "Movie - comedy";
genreMapping[0x15] = "Movie - soap/melodrama/folkloric";
genreMapping[0x16] = "Movie - romance";
genreMapping[0x17] = "Movie - serious/classical/religious/historical movie/drama";
genreMapping[0x18] = "Movie - adult movie/drama";

type 16, subtype 8, is the same as 0x18, so "Movie - adult movie/drama"

[sammy3]

Having looked through my npvr database I can see the entries that are causing my issues have a genre of "drama".
Is this correct? - there doesn't appear to be a dedicated "drama" section in the ETSI standards whilst you seem to be following the major types for the rest?

When these are sent to kodi they end up as "Adult movie / drama"

[sammy3]

Since NextPVR is mapping all Drama to 8

  <genre name="Drama" type="16" subtype="8"/>

you could map it to

  <genre name="Drama" type="16" subtype="0"/>

If it is NextPVR doing the mapping and not OTA

Martin

Hi

Sorry I was a bit slow - just figured it out that that goes in the "xbmc-genre-translation.xml" file.
I just cleared my guide in nextpvr and kodi and pulled a fresh one and I can confirm that changing that line fixes it.
It appears all genres of "drama" type are mapped to the porn category by default in the xbmc-genre-translation.xml file 

Thanks again everyone for the speedy help