EPG for Singapore Users - Starhub New Channels Numbering

[fhmanas]

Doh! Came accross this about 4 hours too late! I was tired of not having EPG data so I started writing a server-side fix that has been working for me temporarily...

May be helpful to some that dont want to run more programs and modify their cache - just stuck a scraper/reformatter on sgmce.com for the purpose of delivering the proper EPG to tvxb. Works great so far for all the starhub channels and mediacorp for titles & showtimes, but no descriptions.

I registered sgmce.com cause I hate having to search through oz/uk forums for basic config settings for sing!

www.sgmce.com

thanks. this works out great.

[sgmce]

Great job ralphy!
I had taken a different approach and created a server-side reformatter and collected only the channels I was interested in. Since I found your ini file, I took the liberty of taking your more extensive channelID research for use with my reformatter!

I found it easier to work on the source data by sticking something inbetween the schedule and tvxb rather than modify the cache and figure there aren't many people using MCE with tvxb in sing so I hosted my reformatter for others to use - but your solution is great in that it does not rely on any third party - perhaps a next step would be to turn it into a locally-run http proxy so as to avoid the multiple tvxb runs for the last day.

[ralphy]

Hello, I am trying to recompile your code with SharpDevelop, but it is looking for Drawing and Window. I am not familiar C#, am just trying to do it on my own. In any case, my problem stems from the fact that the default cache directory is hard coded to "c:\Documents and settings ..." and mine is in "d:\Documents and settings\ ...". Can you help out?


Thanks.

You need to add the reference to System.WIndows.Forms

But you're better off using sgmce.com as I think you are doing so now.

Great job ralphy!
I had taken a different approach and created a server-side reformatter and collected only the channels I was interested in. Since I found your ini file, I took the liberty of taking your more extensive channelID research for use with my reformatter!

I found it easier to work on the source data by sticking something inbetween the schedule and tvxb rather than modify the cache and figure there aren't many people using MCE with tvxb in sing so I hosted my reformatter for others to use - but your solution is great in that it does not rely on any third party - perhaps a next step would be to turn it into a locally-run http proxy so as to avoid the multiple tvxb runs for the last day.

Couldn't agree with you more sgmce. I have zero expertise in web servers and given the chaos in the household without an EPG, chose a brute force, single solution approach to fit my needs that got us up an running in a few hours. As you say, it doesn't rely on a third party, but as long as you are in Singapore, I am sure that you'll keep scraping and reformatting updated! I haven't installed your .ini file, but did check it out. It's an far more elegant solution.

It's a pity that Mediacorp descriptions are harder to get, and that starhub seem to have removed the episode details.

With the demise of htpc-gear.com, maybe sgmce.com can be a useful source of Singapore based info.

[gbpdem]

Known limitations:

[*]chinese characters don't display properly.

Actually when i view the resultant cached html files for eg. VV Drama using character encoding unicode (utf-8) the chinese characters came out nicely

The problem i have is that the xml file does not get generated

[fhmanas]

Thanks, ralphy, I was able to compile it and test it out. It works great. Yes, you are right, I am using sgmce's solution, which is also great. Thanks guys.

[ralphy]

I think the solution for the Chinese characters is to add:

htmlencoding=utf-8

to the tvxb.ini file in the common parameters section. I thought I tried this in my testing, by evidently not.


xmlencoding=utf-8 should be default, but this can also be added.

[gbpdem]

I think the solution for the Chinese characters is to add:

htmlencoding=utf-8

to the tvxb.ini file in the common parameters section. I thought I tried this in my testing, by evidently not.


xmlencoding=utf-8 should be default, but this can also be added.

yes ralphy, think you are right
was looking through my older ini files
and i do see the html and xml encoding lines there

thanks again