EPGFilter 1.0.0

[hansi]

That's funny, just coincidentally installed Amontillado's tool last night and it works fine (never got the normal XMLTV tools to work and used GrabGuide or Wolf's website until now). But missed the fact that Nick/Talpa is not configured in in the default .ini file, so I was not aware that they are joined already ;-). I'll try again tonight.
I had seen eurojojo's site about a year ago but had forgotten all about it. Could do with a refresh afaics.

Thanks,

Hans

[Koenie]

Hi Ton,

HtV made me aware of your great tool to clean up the Dutch xmltv listing. Works like a charm.

There remains only one thing: i use Amontillado's tvgids to xml to get the data and get a perfect listing for Talpa but Talpa sits at channel 92 and nickelodeon at 89. I dont think you can change the 92 simply into 89 with your tool. However you say that the grabber already joins the channels. Can you teach me how to get this activated?

[Ton]

Hey Koenie,

Well.. It has changed again in the meantime (seems like "TVGids" keeps juggling channels with and without Nickelodeon).

I use a different set of tools (from this link:http://www.prize.nl/software/pvr/), and some XMLTV tools.

In fact, here's a copy of my "download" batch-file....

Code:

@Echo off

Rem * First, we remove some old shit.....
Rem - testing RemoveOld.exe SingleDayFiles --age 4 --range 1-2 --rangeage 0 --mask *.xml
del SingleDayFiles\*.xml
Rem - end-of-testing
del *.log

Rem * Then, we get the new data...
start /WAIT TVGids_to_xml.exe

Rem * Combine Talpa and Nickleodon files
ReplChanID TVGids.xml --from 89 --to 92 --output Combined_tvgids.xml

Rem * Let's do some cleanup on the output....
CleanXMLTV Combined_tvgids.xml --output clean_tvgids.xml --cet --talpa
Rem * clean up temporary files...
del Combined_tvgids.xml

Rem * Appy filters to output...
EPGFilter clean_tvgids.xml filter_tvgids.xml > epgfilter.log
Rem * clean up temporary files...
del clean_tvgids.xml

Rem * Take the full channel-list to use as base for GBPVR....
ReplChanList.exe filter_tvgids.xml --output done_tvgids.xml --chanlist C:\GBPVR\channels\channels.xml
Rem * clean up temporary files...
del filter_tvgids.xml

Rem * Start xmltv processing
Rem * First, generate clean xmltv data
xmltv tv_cat --output xmltv.xml done_tvgids.xml > tv_cat.log 2>&1
Rem * clean up temporary files...
del done_tvgids.xml

Rem * Sort and final cleanup
xmltv tv_sort --output epg.xml xmltv.xml --by-channel > run_epg_duplicates.log 2>&1
Rem * clean up temporary files...
del xmltv.xml

Rem * That's all folks....

Please note that I use a separate "channels.xml" that lists all the channels I have (use that together with my Excel sheet and another tool to get the channel data from the cable provider in the registry). That's what this code

Code:

ReplChanList.exe filter_tvgids.xml --output done_tvgids.xml --chanlist C:\GBPVR\channels\channels.xml
Rem * clean up temporary files...
del filter_tvgids.xml

does.

I also filter the output (do an official "XMLTV" cat and sort filter). This will list all "wrong" entries... (I still have plans to maybe do some smarter XMLTV processing in the future, so I log this stuff). You probably won't need to do any of this...

Hope this helps,

[Koenie]

Thanks Ton,

Stupid me never got the point of the XMLTV tools before. Your batch file opened my eyes.