New XMLTV Enhancer and more...

[agerdin]

What I would love is a cut down file of one of your XMLTV files.

Just a single snip from your XML in a text file. Open your file in Notepad (not wordpad) and snip a show that has the most info for a given show. (Actors, Airdate, previously shown, etc). Get the whole entry from <Programme...> to </Programme> For the moment I won't need any of the channels or the file header.

EDIT: I also see in the other thread that your having issues with Swedish Characters. Take note what the downloaded xmltv file's encoding is and grab a record that uses the characters... eg <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Zehd, i have attached a file with 3 examples. As you can see the tag "category" appears twice in some cases where I would like to include both in some way.

The problems with Swedish charachters was only when trying to include literals to explain the merging tags using msxsl.exe. I have no problems with characters in the tags itself.

looking forward to your first release.

Let me know if you need something else.

\Agerdin

[-Oz-]

Glad to see we're getting a lot of ideas for this and a lot of want.

[zehd]

The serializer is just a class that strong types the XMLTv data and will read and write XMLTv files. It's in C# but I can make it a dll so that you can access it from VB6.

My code is running well at the moment. It's short and sweet. I'm trying to work with only variables and arrays which is tough for me because I like to visualize and see immediate screen refresh... I'll be talking about some coding ideas later in this thread.

A quick dll might be great. When processing 27000 records or more, the faster the better...

[zehd]

I do some postprocessing of the xmltv file to correct some systematical errors and to fix some titles (sometimes titles and subtitles are together hampering season recordings).
Further I substitute the channel numbers with the actual channel numbers of my cable provider (this makes setting up multipe tuners easy, especially if there are changes in the channels and one has to reimport the EPG from the config app).

The utilities I use are actually replchanid.exe and epgfilter.exe which I found trough this forum: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...replchanid

This site has a number of tools together, nice for some ideas: http://www.prize.nl/software/pvr/

Would be nice to get this functionality bundled in a single app.

I'm planning on adding Channel replacing too

[zehd]

Zehd, i have attached a file with 3 examples. As you can see the tag "category" appears twice in some cases where I would like to include both in some way.

The problems with Swedish charachters was only when trying to include literals to explain the merging tags using msxsl.exe. I have no problems with characters in the tags itself.

looking forward to your first release.

Let me know if you need something else.

\Agerdin

This is great. I just noticed a new attribute for the Programme Node: clumpidx

What does it do?

[agerdin]

This is great. I just noticed a new attribute for the Programme Node: clumpidx

What does it do?

I had no idea, but looked it up and found this:

TV listings sometimes have the problem of listing two or more
programmes in the same timeslot, such as 'News; Weather'. We call
this a 'clump' of programmes, and the 'clumpidx' attribute
differentiates between two programmes sharing the same timeslot and
channel. In this case News would have clumpidx="0/2" and Weather
would have clumpidx="1/2". If you don't have this problem, be
thankful!

\\Agerdin

[zehd]

I had no idea, but looked it up and found this:


\\Agerdin

I suppose I should have looked at the DTD (Document Type Definition) a long time ago. This has given me insight into further features I need to add to make for compatibility...

[zehd]

Queston to all:

I noticed that the xmltv spec allows for multiple languages for many elements...

Code:

<title lang="en">English: Title</title>
    <title lang="de">Danish: Title</title>
    <title lang="sv">Swedish: Title</title>

I can do one of two things when I process this. I can have a single default language written to the processed output xml file or I can pass all three strings.

My question is, does GB-PVR use all three strings and displays the one that is specified elsewhere. Or will it just take the first string it reads...?

[sub]

It just takes the first.

[psicotron3]

Queston to all:

I can do one of two things when I process this. I can have a single default language written to the processed output xml file or I can pass all three strings.

My question is, does GB-PVR use all three strings and displays the one that is specified elsewhere. Or will it just take the first string it reads...?

It just takes the first.

In this case zehd, could you create and option to select what language we want to keep?