XMLTV - cloning EPG Data

[kylebrophy]

Hi Everyone,

I tried to log this on the the XMLTVNZ forum - but the author suggested i use some editor to do what im after - then didnt give any hints (so safe to say he doesnt wanna know bout it).

I have a HVR4000 - which as such has 2 capture sources DVB-S and DVB-T.

I have set channels 1-3 from the DVB-T as "ONE HD, TWO HD, THREE HD" - just so that i can tell these are the HD Capable channels vs DVB-S which is always SD.

However since import all the EPG data from a XMLTV file - it will only populate the EPG data against the SD Channels (Since i called the HD channels by a different name).

My question is there anyway (or utilility) that i can use that can "duplicate" all the TV1,TV2,TV3 data - and add it back into the file for "ONE HD, TWO HD, THREE HD".

I hope this isnt an unreasonable question - as i dont really want to be recording all my stuff in HD - which is why ive set them up as different channel names.

I can remember one of the aussie epg programs was written that you could output the data to as many duplicate names as you wished, but as mentioned above - xmltvnz is not keen on that. I do understand that this is probably not a very common request - but id love to know how to get around it (other than forget about having separate HD channel names).

Many thanks in advance

[Hoogineer]

I just figured this out with mc2xml. This post has a link to the mc2xml website. I don't know whether mc2xml works for NZ. However, if you read the documentation carefully, you'll notice that you can create a separate DAT file for each tuner and combine them into a single XML file. Here is how I managed it with the GBPVR updateEPG.bat file:

cd C:\EPG\
mc2xml.exe -D antenna.dat -C antenna.chl -i 100 -o antenna.xml -c us -g 12345
mc2xml.exe -D cable.dat -C cable.chl -I antenna.xml -o xmltv.xml -c us -g 12345
del antenna.xml

[Jaggy]

My question is there anyway (or utilility) that i can use that can "duplicate" all the TV1,TV2,TV3 data - and add it back into the file for "ONE HD, TWO HD, THREE HD".

Maybe you could do something like I did when DvbToXMLTV stopped working to rename the channels so I didn't have to setup different channels because the name was different. I in your case it would proably be best to just have two xml files & point your DVB-S to the standard XMLTVNZ file & your DVB-T to the one you modify the name in.

I found a mention somewhere in the forums of a rename utility called "replace" (if you can't find the link PM me your email address & I will send it to you) & in my updateEPG.bat I have

Code:

replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find "<display-name>Maori Television<display-name>" -replace "<display-name>Maori TV</display-name>"
replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find "<display-name>TVNZ7</display-name>" -replace "<display-name>TVNZ 7</display-name>"
replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find "<display-name>TVNZ Sport Extra</display-name>" -replace "<display-name>TVNZ SPORT EXTRA</display-name>"
replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find "<display-name>TVNZ6</display-name>" -replace "<display-name>TVNZ 6</display-name>"
replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find "<display-name>Stratos TV</display-name>" -replace "<display-name>STRATOS</display-name>"
replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find "<display-name>Discovery Channel</display-name>" -replace "<display-name>Discovery</display-name>"
replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find "<display-name>Trackside</display-name>" -replace "<display-name>TAB - Trackside</display-name>"
replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find ">Maori Television<" -replace ">Maori TV<"
replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find ">TVNZ7<" -replace ">TVNZ 7<"
replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find ">TVNZ Sport Extra<" -replace ">TVNZ SPORT EXTRA<"
replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find ">TVNZ6<" -replace ">TVNZ 6<"
replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find ">Stratos TV<" -replace ">STRATOS<"
replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find ">Discovery Channel<" -replace ">Discovery<"
replace -fname *.xml -casesens -find ">Trackside<" -replace ">TAB - Trackside<"

so as you can see it was fairly simple to setup & it works a treat for changing the names in the xmltv file & I can't see why it shouldn't do what you want.

[Jaggy]

Further to your PM, I went hunting & found my original download of "replace.exe" & I had saved a link to the web site I have included it here for you & who knows maybe others could find it helpful as well.

http://www.bestcode.com/html/findreplace.html

just a quick comment about it (& it may have only been something I was doing wrong) is I found I needed to rename the channels twice, as you will see if you look at bit out of my batch file above, as sometimes it seemed to miss renaming one or two but after I set it to do them twice it has been working 100% for a friend for about seven months now......I have gone back to using sub's DvbToXMLTV so don't personally use it any more.

[kylebrophy]

Further to your PM, I went hunting & found my original download of "replace.exe" & I had saved a link to the web site I have included it here for you & who knows maybe others could find it helpful as well.

http://www.bestcode.com/html/findreplace.html

just a quick comment about it (& it may have only been something I was doing wrong) is I found I needed to rename the channels twice, as you will see if you look at bit out of my batch file above, as sometimes it seemed to miss renaming one or two but after I set it to do them twice it has been working 100% for a friend for about seven months now......I have gone back to using sub's DvbToXMLTV so don't personally use it any more.

Many thanks to everyone that had ideas.

Ive gone with the replace program - and it works BEAUTIFULY !!!
ive set it up to take a copy of the epg data downloaded from xmltvnz - and then it updates the channel display names, and im all set.

AAAAA+ haha