Alternative New Zealand XMLTV listing source

[xanth]

Sorry, have just updated the wiki.
It was quite hard for me to explain so perhaps I'll give an example.

The text that is searched through might look like....
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<tr valign="top">
<td class="tvgentertainment">TV1</td>
<td bgcolor="#008FCA">&nbsp;</td>
<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#F5FCFF">
<a href="#" class="tvgprogram"
onmouseover="return escape('General Entertainment<br><b>Spooks (23:10)</b><br><b>TV1</b><br><b>11:00pm-12:10am</b>')"
onClick="openBrWindow('tvg-program-info.cfm?cc=TV1A&ds=2007-11-12&st=23:00&en=Spooks','info','scrollbars=yes,width=350,height=426'); return false">&laquo; Spooks (23:10)
</a>
<span class="tvgclassification">(M)</span>
</td>
<td colspan="142" bgcolor="#F5FCFF"></td>
</tr>
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Once the config is read and reads the lines, the data ends up as
onmouseover="return escape('General Entertainment<br><b>Spooks (23:10)</b><br><b>TV1</b><br><b>11:00pm-12:10am</b>')"onClick="openBrWindow('tvg-program-info.cfm?cc=TV1A&ds=2007-11-12&st=23:00&en=Spooks','info','scrollbars=yes,width=350,height=426'); return false"
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So the config string would be.
TV1,01,2,onmouseover,TV1,<b>,3,</b>,&ds=,1,&,<b>,1,</b>,’,1,<br>,http ://www. gbpvr.com/logo/TV1.jpeg
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So, what each field means:
1. TV1, What Channel to look for
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2. 01, The channel ID
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3. 2, The no. of lines to read once it finds the searched for string and combines them into one line
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4. onmouseover, The string to search for to start reading (as above)
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5. TV1, The second string to search for (Diff than no1.
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6. <b>, From the lines read (no3) string to search for the time
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7. 3, The number of instances of no6 to find before the string for time is found.

IE:
onmouseover="return escape('General Entertainment<br><b>Spooks (23:10)</b><br><b>TV1</b><br><b>11:00pm-12:10am</b>')"onClick="openBrWindow('tvg-program-info.cfm?cc=TV1A&ds=2007-11-12&st=23:00&en=Spooks','info','scrollbars=yes,width=350,height=426'); return false"
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8. </b>, The end of the string for time
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9. &ds=, String to search for to find the date
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10. 1, The number of instances of no8 to find before the string for date is found
IE:
onmouseover="return escape('General Entertainment<br><b>Spooks (23:10)</b><br><b>TV1</b><br><b>11:00pm-12:10am</b>')"onClick="openBrWindow('tvg-program-info.cfm?cc=TV1A&ds=2007-11-12&st=23:00&en=Spooks','info','scrollbars=yes,width=350,height=426'); return false"
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11. &, The string that marks the end of the date
IE:
onmouseover="return escape('General Entertainment<br><b>Spooks (23:10)</b><br><b>TV1</b><br><b>11:00pm-12:10am</b>')"onClick="openBrWindow('tvg-program-info.cfm?cc=TV1A&ds=2007-11-12&st=23:00&en=Spooks','info','scrollbars=yes,width=350,height=426'); return false"
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12. <b>, String to search for to find the name
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13. 1, The number of instances of no12 to find before the string for date is found
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14. </b>, The string that marks the end of the name
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15. ’, String to search for to find the program description
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16. 1, The number of instances of no15 to find before the string for date is found
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17. <br>, The string that marks the end of the program description
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18. http ://www. gbpvr.com/logo/TV1.jpeg Icon use use
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[argo]

Thanks xanth, making more sense now. Hate to say though there seems to be a problem now getting the description data, could be since changing to the new webpage?

[argo]

Also have you seen this?

http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/epg/

Has over 1MB of EPG data.

[stustunz]

wont be long till its removed

[sub]

There is a utility for the current version of GB-PVR that can be used to extra the sky tv listings from a DVB-S device to an xmltv file, which can then be used with analog or digital capture sources.

[stustunz]

quick details anywhere on how sub?

[sub]

I've attached the utility.

You need to have at least one DVB-S capture source defined on your machine, and configure the output filename in the <OutputFile> tag of the DvbToXMLTV.xml. When you run it, it'll produce the file you've specified with all the listings extracted from the sky/freeview satellite services.

[danc]

Sub,

First of all, this looks like it will be the solution I have been looking for! Just set up and run but I get the following error when I run this app. Any idea?

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>DvbToXMLTV.exe

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'GBPVR.Backend.Common.SystemConfiguration' from assembly 'GBPVRBackendCommon, Version=1.0.2873.22917, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'. at DvbToXMLTV.Program.Main(String[] args)

[sub]

Ah, I know why that happened. Try the attached version.

[danc]

Got further... processed down as shown below and then get the next error message.

.....
1014-11-169 = Animal Planet
1015-11-169 = CNN
1018-11-169 = Prime
1027-11-169 = Disney Channel
1037-11-169 = Prime
1039-11-169 = MTV
Using DVB-S capture source: StarBoxII
About to scan: T:12483,H,22500,34


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Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to
an instance of an object.
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.RenderToDVRMSMux(Int32 videoPID, Int32 audioPI
D, IBaseFilter* demuxFilter, Char* pszFilename)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, S
tring filename, IntPtr hwnd, ChannelTuning channelTuning, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 l
nbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2, Int32 diseqc, Boolean powered, Boolean previewMode)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, S
tring filename, IntPtr hwnd, ChannelTuning channelTuning, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 l
nbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2, Int32 diseqc, Boolean powered)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.BDARecordingSource.startRecording(IRecordingSourceCon
figuration config, Int32 qualitySetting, String filename, ChannelTuning channelT
uning, Int32 minutes, Boolean useStreamingEngineIfAvailable)
at DvbToXMLTV.xb979ad394703258e.xfb409e85bd292293(String[] xf18a926310372520)