TV Listings - Support Thread

[alibert]

Hi,

alibert

I'm having a strange problem with the TV Listings plugin. The Disney channel (channel #57) listings disappears from view after 2 secs. Its been like that for the last 4 days. Not being able to view the listings for that channel is the only problem (Live TV, record, and info work fine on that channel). If I scroll out to Wednesday of this week, starting at 12:30 pm, then the listings for that channel don't disappear. This problem might disappear itself come Wednesday. Using the built in TV Guide, the listings are viewable as seen below. Any ideas of what may be causing this ?

Thanks Zoran

I think that there is some corrupt programme data somewhere on the mentioned channel, e.g. funny start and end times.

Please check the following:
- zip and attach your logfiles, maybe there is an error logged
- try to do a complete epg reload (call gbpvr.exe -onlyemptyepg, then gbpvr.exe -onlyupdateepg), and check if the error still occurs
- try changing the 'past days' variable from the configuration of the plugin to '1' if it was set to '0', and check is the error still occurs

-alibert

[Wakalaka]

It's not reproducible and seems to happen at random. My wife said it happened a few times in the past week. I told her next time it happens to write down what the error dialog says. I just happened to be sitting here when it happened tonight. We haven't been able to make it happen again tonight.

It just happened again, this time to me, when I hit Record button when a show named "The Lost Room" was selected. The show starts at 11pm and it was about 10:50pm when this happened.

[alibert]

Hi,

It just happened again, this time to me, when I hit Record button when a show named "The Lost Room" was selected. The show starts at 11pm and it was about 10:50pm when this happened.

I've had a look at the logs and I have o admit that I don't know what's going wrong - normally there should be log entries before and after scheduling a recording (somehing like "TVListings: About to schedule 'record once' recording for {0}.", but they seem to be missing from the logs. The only message that says that there is a problem is:

Code:

2007-04-25 11:01:33.133    WARNING    [1]    No available capture source found

But I don't know under which circumstances it is generated.

-alibert

[Wakalaka]

I've had a look at the logs and I have to admit that I don't know what's going wrong - normally there should be log entries before and after scheduling a recording (somehing like "TVListings: About to schedule 'record once' recording for {0}.", but they seem to be missing from the logs. The only message that says that there is a problem is:

Code:

2007-04-25 11:01:33.133    WARNING    [1]    No available capture source found

But I don't know under which circumstances it is generated.

Fun, isn't it? How would you like me to proceed? It's happening quite a bit, considering it has happened 3 times now in my presence in a week. Do you think it has anything to do with the EPG data? The guide looks right, the show names and specific info looks right.

[alibert]

Hi,

Fun, isn't it? How would you like me to proceed? It's happening quite a bit, considering it has happened 3 times now in my presence in a week. Do you think it has anything to do with the EPG data? The guide looks right, the show names and specific info looks right.

sorry - I've no idea at the moment. If it happens the next time, you could zip and attach your logfiles again and I will have a look if there's something meaningful. Please ensure that you attach *all* logfiles that start with "gbpvr.exe..." and gbpvrrecordingservice.exe...".

-alibert

[chrisu]

Hi alibert,

thanx for this great plugin!

TVxb uses a time format like

<programme start="20070616185500 +0200" ...>

which is not recognized by XmltvIcons.exe that needs something like

<programme start="20070616185500" ...>

Because I already do a lot of postprocessing of the XML file it is just one more find/replace for me to do, so it's not a real problem.

Just wanted to let you know. Maybe you want to update your regex like done once in this thread

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post133174

kind regards,
chrisu

[alibert]

Hi,

Hi alibert,

thanx for this great plugin!

TVxb uses a time format like

<programme start="20070616185500 +0200" ...>

which is not recognized by XmltvIcons.exe that needs something like

<programme start="20070616185500" ...>

Because I already do a lot of postprocessing of the XML file it is just one more find/replace for me to do, so it's not a real problem.

Just wanted to let you know. Maybe you want to update your regex like done once in this thread

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post133174

kind regards,
chrisu

I just checked it, and the xmltvicons utility already supports those offsets: Reading the xmltv datetime "20070627175500 +0200" resulted in "27.06.2007 19:55:00".

Are you getting any error messages or just an empty icondictionary.xml file? Do you have another offset applied in your gbpvr xmltv source (Config.exe -> Capture Sources -> Edit -> EPG Source Settings -> Apply offset when importing...)?

-alibert

[rlbond]

Well I had an interesting problem with TV listings.
It seems that when I schedule a recording using the Record button my remote (mapped to GUIDE_RECORD), it does not set the flag for the computer to wake from hibernation; when I use the enter button and select "quick rec" or "record" then it does. Don't know if this is GBPVR's fault or not. For now I just remapped ^K to GUIDE_ENTER instead.

[alibert]

Hi,

Well I had an interesting problem with TV listings.
It seems that when I schedule a recording using the Record button my remote (mapped to GUIDE_RECORD), it does not set the flag for the computer to wake from hibernation; when I use the enter button and select "quick rec" or "record" then it does. Don't know if this is GBPVR's fault or not. For now I just remapped ^K to GUIDE_ENTER instead.

both ways to schedule a recording are calling the same function, which calls subs schedule helper api to schedule the recording - so there shouldn't be a difference.

-alibert

[chrisu]

Hi alibert,

just checked again:

<programme start="20070625000000" stop="20070625053000" channel="ard.de">

works while

<programme start="20070625000000 +0200" stop="20070625053000 +0200" channel="ard.de">

does not work.

Are you getting any error messages or just an empty icondictionary.xml file?
Do you have another offset applied in your gbpvr xmltv source (Config.exe -> Capture Sources -> Edit -> EPG Source Settings -> Apply offset when importing...)?

I get no error messages, but 'Updated 0 entries' and I get an empty icondictionary.xml file.

I have no offset specified for both of my capture cards.

I am using the latest version of xmltvicons.exe from the wiki, dated 14.08.2006 18:29 and 32.768 Bytes file size.

chris