XMLTV - automatic grabbing config

[BigMoose]

Does the XMLTV GUI prog do anything that the command line xmltv doesn't? I just run "xmltv tv_grab_uk_rt --days 14 --output file.xml". Only problem is when the grabber fails and you end up with a tiny xml file, GBPVR uses it anyway and I end up with little or no useful data.

[homebrewpc]

Code:

@echo off
"C:\Program Files\XMLTV GUI\XmltvGUI.exe" /Grab

Hi, Thank you. Much appreciated. Double clicked on the .bat file and it's now grabbing EPG data successfully.

Thank you again

[zvm]

Hi,

I am from Croatia, but I am using the same grabber. Everything works fine except one thing: GBPVR adds up two hours to every program start/stop time. I.E if show starts at 19:00, GBPVR lists it at 21:00.
Here is how it looks in my xml file: "20080728090500 +0000". I selected option to add nothing to published schedule, but anyway GBPVR adds up 2 hours.
if I delete +0000 part from the file (replace through the whole file) my tv listing is ok!
What can I do? I am not ready to make this replace regularly. It should run automatically . I just started using this grabber, since my old one (TVxb) became problematic.
thanks for any suggestion.

[sub]

There has been no known problems with GB-PVR's handling of xmltv files for several years now, so I can only suggest that either your machine has its timezone set incorrectly, or your xmltv grabber is generating incorrect times in the xml file.

"+0000" is a saying the times are in UTC. From a guess, I'd say Croatia is about 2 hours ahead of UTC, so if it works when you delete the "+0000" then it sounds like your grabber is incorrectly sticking "+0000" on the end of local times.

[zvm]

I assume that the problem is with the grabber. But why GBPVR adds up two hours whether I set "+0000" or "+0200" or "-0200"!?
i have timezone correctly set (CET/CEST)

[markbb1]

I assume that the problem is with the grabber. But why GBPVR adds up two hours whether I set "+0000" or "+0200" or "-0200"!?
i have timezone correctly set (CET/CEST)

I had a similar discussion on this board a few weeks ago. Every EPG viewer that I have ever used ignores the UTC offset. Apparently GBPVR does too. It seems to be be determined that the program time is in UTC, and your PC is in CET so it adds two hours. Here's one thing you can do:

Supposedly XMLTVAlter can "Alter Programme Time" - Alters a programme's start and stop times for selected channels.

You would probably have to make it do that for all your channels.

Get XMLTVAlter from here
http://forum.epgstream.net/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=54
Figure out the command sequence that changes all the start and stop times to be two hours earlier.
If you use a batch file to grab your data, incorporate that XMLTVAlter command sequence into your grabber batch file.
With any luck, that will relieve you from having to manually correct the data every time you need to update your guide.

[zvm]

Thanks Mark. I found another solution: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltv/

This one also adds two hours (it has "+0200" automatically for every show), but somehow GBPVR do the right thing with its file.
This programme also has additional feature of concatanating several xml files into one (tv_cat). Actually, I use this feature since i don't know how to change or set encoding automatically. I need UTF, and xmltv does it in ISO-8859. Everything is ok with ISO, but I don't see Croatian special characters.

[markbb1]

Thanks Mark. I found another solution: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltv/

This one also adds two hours (it has "+0200" automatically for every show), but somehow GBPVR do the right thing with its file.
This programme also has additional feature of concatanating several xml files into one (tv_cat). Actually, I use this feature since i don't know how to change or set encoding automatically. I need UTF, and xmltv does it in ISO-8859. Everything is ok with ISO, but I don't see Croatian special characters.

I don't know if this will help, but it wouldn't hurt to look.

http://www.prize.nl/software/pvr/xmltv.h...atin1_UTF8

download from http://www.prize.nl/software/pvr/Convert...1_UTF8.zip

Convert_Latin1_UTF8 converts an XML file from Latin1/ISO/IEC 8859 encoding to UTF-8/Unicode and vice versa.

How to use Convert_Latin1_UTF8
Enter parameters:

Convert_Latin1_UTF8 INPUTFILE --output OUTPUTFILE [--ToFormat UTF-8|Latin1]

[zvm]

Mark, thank you again! Unfortunately it didn't solve the problem. It helps if I replace ISO with UTF only in the first line of my xml file. This tool obviously changes some other characters within file (understandable!).

Conclusion: Generated file with ISO encoding is just fine. I only need to change encoding type from ISO to UTF in the first line of generated file. Reencoding do some more unwanted changes.

I need to find solution how to automatically (through script) make find/replace. Or to stick with the current solution which is also ok, but not as much detailed with the programme descriptions and stuff like that.

Edit:
I found solution http://www.bestcode.com/html/findreplace.html.
This is a handy tool for command line find/replace. Just what I need. It might be useful to the others for whatever purposes.

[markbb1]

Mark, thank you again! Unfortunately it didn't solve the problem. It helps if I replace ISO with UTF only in the first line of my xml file. This tool obviously changes some other characters within file (understandable!).

Conclusion: Generated file with ISO encoding is just fine. I only need to change encoding type from ISO to UTF in the first line of generated file. Reencoding do some more unwanted changes.

I need to find solution how to automatically (through script) make find/replace. Or to stick with the current solution which is also ok, but not as much detailed with the programme descriptions and stuff like that.

Edit:
I found solution http://www.bestcode.com/html/findreplace.html.
This is a handy tool for command line find/replace. Just what I need. It might be useful to the others for whatever purposes.

Thanks for letting us know you got it solved.
If you were already using xmltv.exe, you might have been able to use tv_cat to fix it. I don't know for sure, but if you created an xmltv file with just the top couple lines of the xmltv file (with the ISO changed to UTF) and one channel, then tv_cat your data file and the small file, the resulting file might have been what you wanted. Might have saved installing another program.