Additional formats for Episode/year scraper

[sammy3]

Hi
Currently nextpvr scrapes my ota epg data (uk freeview) and pulls the season and episode number for certain shows. Unfortunately different broadcasters use slightly different formats like this which aren't picked up:
(S6 Ep 1)
S2, ep11/23
and more ..
Also the year is usually always listed for movies in the summary which could be useful for more accurate matching of artwork (for example a tmdb search of Godzilla currently produces 74 results of various different years   )

Ps. I can provide more examples. There are also some regex examples here:
https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/b.../scrape/uk

[mvallevand]

The pvr.vuplus addon has some alternative regex

https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.vuplus/b...ctor.h#L34

Martin

[sub]

I've added support for a few more types of season/episode layouts in the next build.

[sammy3]

I've added support for a few more types of season/episode layouts in the next build.

Awesome - thanks for all your hard work

[sammy3]

Hi
Thanks for adding movie year scraping in the last release
I have attached some recording xml examples of movie year formats that are not currently detected (all the ones without a year in the file title).

Would it be possible for dvb entries that have had the year scraped, to first search themoviedb then fallback to thetvdb (it currently appears to search the tvdb first producing the odd wrong match). At least in the UK movies pretty much always have the year in the summary and tv show episodes do not. 

Also in a separate matter most new episodes generally have the "New:" prefix in the title. Currently nextpvr removes these to better match show names which is great etc. But would it be possible for shows that have this prefix to also be marked as "new" in the ui/backend instead of just discarding this information (currently everything shows up as new).
(Is this a gui feature or is the recording logic heavily dependent on repeat/new flags).

Best Regards

[mvallevand]

This post reminds me that sub really needs be able to disable the ugly new filename format in the next build.

There is no scraping by NextPVR to get the correct filename only the correct art. The rest comes from the EPG

For the new in the text I think it would be wrong to assume all descriptions that don't have new are reruns. If this feature is important and also the movie year, I am not sure why you don't consider paying the reasonable price to get rich meta from Schedules Direct

Martin

[sammy3]

For the new in the text  I think it would be wrong to assume all descriptions that don't have new are reruns.  If this feature is important and also the movie year, I am not sure why you don't consider paying the reasonable price to get rich meta from Schedules Direct

Martin

I agree that it's wrong to assume that all shows without the new prefix in the title are reruns and certainly shouldn't be taken into account in the recording logic.
I was hoping that the shows with the new prefix would show as new in guide/ui etc instead of having everything showing as new (I wasn't sure whether this was feasible in the code or whether it was heavily tied into the recording logic).

As for schedulesdirect from the comments I've seen the UK ota epg seems to be pretty decent compared to other countries. I'm also still testing  with the tuner (its not currently in full use atm)
Regards

[sub]

This post reminds me that sub really needs be able to disable the ugly new filename format in the next build.

There is a checkbox for it in the next build.

[sub]

For the new in the text  I think it would be wrong to assume all descriptions that don't have new are reruns.  If this feature is important and also the movie year, I am not sure why you don't consider paying the reasonable price to get rich meta from Schedules Direct

Martin

I agree that it's wrong to assume that all shows without the new prefix in the title are reruns and certainly shouldn't be taken into account in the recording logic.
I was hoping that the shows with the new prefix would show as new in guide/ui etc instead of having everything showing as new (I wasn't sure whether this was feasible in the code or whether it was heavily tied into the recording logic).

This subject has received a lot of thought over the past dozen years. I'm sure NextPVR is already doing the best thing by assuming a show is new unless it knows otherwise.

If you don't have a guide that reliably provides new/repeat info for every show, I'd suggest not enabling 'Highlight new shows'. It's off by default, but there for users that have better guide info and would like to show it.

No plans to change anything in this area.

[sammy3]

For the new in the text  I think it would be wrong to assume all descriptions that don't have new are reruns.  If this feature is important and also the movie year, I am not sure why you don't consider paying the reasonable price to get rich meta from Schedules Direct

Martin

I agree that it's wrong to assume that all shows without the new prefix in the title are reruns and certainly shouldn't be taken into account in the recording logic.
I was hoping that the shows with the new prefix would show as new in guide/ui etc instead of having everything showing as new (I wasn't sure whether this was feasible in the code or whether it was heavily tied into the recording logic).

This subject has received a lot of thought over the past dozen years. I'm sure NextPVR is already doing the best thing by assuming a show is new unless it knows otherwise.

If you don't have a guide that reliably provides new/repeat info for every show, I'd suggest not enabling 'Highlight new shows'. It's off by default, but there for users that have better guide info and would like to show it.

No plans to change anything in this area.

No worries - I can see you guys have put a huge amount of work into v5   
I would say its now the easiest and most user friendly recording backend to setup 

Best regards