EPG support for Australia???

[mixedup]

Here's a copy/paste from a recent xmltv mailing list post that might assist:

I have heard that there have been several reports that
the d1 service has been having problems itself so the
problems are server side.

It appears that d1.com.au was just redistributing the
guides from oztivo
http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view/TVGuide/ which
is a community site that licences under the Creative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence.

I use the grabber below, I believe it is not part of
the xmltv project as you are required to register with
oztivo to set up the source before you can use it.
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/...u_reg.html

Another option is to use a zip redistribution of the
oztivo data, just wget and unzip the file.
http://xmltv.locost7.info/Brisbane/OztivoBrisbane.zip

A few weeks ago the Australian tv networks have begun
sending several days of epg data over the air using
eit so you could also just use the over the air data.

[zehd]

I use OzTivoextreme, which gets its data from tvguide.com.au. I was simply looking into using xmltv.exe to get the data too, as I'm trying to find other options to list on the wiki...

I only dug up this thread as it referred to using xmltv.exe and now it looks like it is not built in for australia anymore. I was just wondering if there was a way to get the tv_grab_au reg file I saw on the web inported into xmltv.exe.

It doesn't bother me at all. I'm fine with oztivo. And it has pay channels too. The d1 doesn't have that...

[GLO]

Hi Zehd,

Im just rebuilding my HTPC atm and plan to get GB-PVR running again.
I did a search on OzTivoextreme but could only find discussions about it and not the download or instructions. Can you help me out?

Thanks in advance.

[zehd]

Hi Zehd,

Im just rebuilding my HTPC atm and plan to get GB-PVR running again.
I did a search on OzTivoextreme but could only find discussions about it and not the download or instructions. Can you help me out?

Thanks in advance.

Sorry but I won't be able to tell you for a couple of weeks. I learned the instructions from this forum, so maybe another search might help...

When I'm able to work on my computer again, I will be updating the wiki for what I found on Australian EPG...

[GLO]

Hi Zehd,

Thanks, i will do some reasearch but will also look forward to your help!

Have a great Xmas.

[zehd]

The D1 XML TVguide and also the commonly available derived zip files of the oztivo data currently have the following amongst the XML file

The Author of D1XMLTVGrabber is not intending to update his product at this time. He suggests GuideDog and the author of GuideDog has said here http://forums.dvbowners.com/index.php?sh...7064&st=40

Guidedog itself can be found within that thread, but the GuideDogGuide.txt seems to be missing.

Not feeling good about this at the moment.

There is a small possibility that I will dig into this and look into the api docs. It's possible that -Oz-'s Yapi2XML api downloader can be modified for this. As he writes in the same language as I do, it's a matter of tracking him down and getting the source...

Of course I would prefer waiting a bit more and seeing where those guys take it. You keep bumping me for this?

[zehd]

As an Update....

I downloaded GuideDog, its a VBS, and it works, although it's error routines leave much to be desired (eg. get the userid/password wrong and it says 'Oztivo Not a valid xmltv file!'). Remember this program needs updating for the 'new' service format.

Whilst on that forum I discovered xmltvDownload which gets its data from the same source but already supports the 'new' format. Use the /Config option of the executable, it's much better than mucking around with the config files, and all the other things you need to do to set up the channel list

Both seem to load into GBPVR correcly and both appear to have the correct time format.

The latest version xmltvDownload expires on the 31st of March, the author says this is just so that he can force a new version as the 'new' format is 'tweaked'. The website says the program is free.

The website does not list GB-PVR in its 'XMLTV Clients list' http://forum.epgstream.net/viewforum.php?f=18 I'm sure they will fix that real soon

Now to 'Minnie' which appears to be the ultimate source of most EPG data in Oz. It's a 2.4GHz P4 with 320Gig ATA and 768M of memory It would appear that yesterday it fielded over 10,000 EPGs

Would you mind copying the stuff you did get and sending to me. Although I'm not in OZ anymore, I'd still like to get the wiki pages right...?

[zehd]

Err, what 'Stuff' did you mean exactly?

My current intent is to leave GuideDog since it wont work in its current form after 31st March and focus on getting xmltvDownload running on my setup. (and probably documenting the process more)

I guess I meant the URL stuff. But really, if you're on it, then I'm off it...

[zehd]

Not sure I like the sound of that

But can you give me a pointer to the Wiki page(s) you have in mind and I'll keep it in mind

Honestly, I didn't mean anything by it. At first I wanted to get involved and possibly even offer some coding to solve the problem, and then update the wiki..

Then it seemed like you had it in hand. So it felt like too many cooks in the kitchen...

Anyway, I threw together pages for d1 and oztivoextreme on the wiki. Once you get the new technique ironed out, we can update the wiki then ...

[zehd]

Very nice. I noticed that the output file does not include cr lf or xmltv header information... something like...

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<tv source-info-url="http://tvguide.org.au/" source-data-url="http://minnie.tuhs.org/tivo-bin/xmlguide.pl" generator-info-name="Monsters OzTivo Extreme Grabber" generator-info-url="http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/">

This will be a challenge to navigate with UltraXMLTV. I wonder if you have heard through their forums whether they plan to add the proper formatting...