EPG support for Australia???

[zehd]

I didn't ask and I didn't look as I'm not enough of an expert to argue with the formatting. Perhaps it just looks ugly, but is syntactically correct. :confused:

Yes, I noticed it looks weird with Notepad and Frontpage, but if you open it in IE it looks fine.

Also, GBPVR understands it

This is the first file that I've seen with absolutely no character to describe a new line. Yes, GB-PVR can read it and an xmltv syntax doesn't require the ?xml string at the top. But without the character, UltraXMLTV will be useless...

How responsive is the team to suggestions?

[zehd]

On forums.dvbowners.com in the 'Electronic Program Guide (EPG)' section, epgstream seems to check and respond twice a day.

They have their own forums at http://forum.epgstream.net/

OK. I will look into using a new serializer technique to read the files, which should not be dependant on the CRLF, and if that doesn't work, I'll pop on the boards and ask them...

[whurlston]

Send me a copy of the file. I'll run it through my serializer. It should not have any trouble but I can double check.

[zehd]

Send me a copy of the file. I'll run it through my serializer. It should not have any trouble but I can double check.

It'll be there in a few hours. Working...

[zehd]

It'll be there in a few hours. Working...

Looks like we have a decent free grabber for OZ and I will be able to read the xmltv file properly with UltraXMLTV.

Background: I started writing the UltraXMLTV Enhancer while in Australia, with Australia being my primary focus. I was disheartened by the grabber offerings. And I always thought that even more data could be displayed in GB-PVRs TV Guide.

So I'm quite interested in making sure that the Enhancer continues to work for Australia...

[epgStream]

This is the first file that I've seen with absolutely no character to describe a new line. Yes, GB-PVR can read it and an xmltv syntax doesn't require the ?xml string at the top. But without the character, UltraXMLTV will be useless...

How responsive is the team to suggestions?

Hi zehd!

There is an option within xmltvDownload which will format (CRLF) and indent your XMLTV output source for you.

You can either use the "/config" screen and set the "XML Formatting Scheme" option to "Indented" or just manually update the xmltvDownload.exe.config file:

[INDENT]

Code:

<add key="XmlFormatting" value="Indented" />

[/INDENT]

The "XmlFormatting" setting currently defaults to "None" because the nicely indented is just for us humans to read!

Oh, BTW, what does UltraXMLTV do?

Thanks,

[epgStream]

Oh, BTW, what does UltraXMLTV do?

Just found this page on UltraXMLTV ... very nice!

xmltvDownload might compliment UltraXMLTV quite nicely. I noticed under the heading "Example UpdateEPG Batch File" that you could probably get away with not even using a batch file! xmltvDownload has a /config "On Download Success Command" option which will execute a program of your choice on a successful download.
[INDENT]

Code:

<add key="OnSuccessExecuteCommand" value="c:\epg\UltraXMLTV_Enhancer\UltraXMLTV_Enhancer.exe" />
<add key="OnSuccessExecuteArgumentList" value="c:\epg\xmltv.xml" />

[/INDENT]

Thanks,

[epgStream]

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...

Thanks for reminding us about those <tv> attributes! We've just added them to our latest version, v0.99.34. This new ozTiVo API isn't as straight forward as the previous single URL version so we tucked those <tv> attributes aside ... and forgot about them!

Thanks,

[zehd]

Thanks for reminding us about those <tv> attributes! We've just added them to our latest version, v0.99.34. This new ozTiVo API isn't as straight forward as the previous single URL version so we tucked those <tv> attributes aside ... and forgot about them!

Thanks,

Thanks for taking an interest. I'll be updating the notes on using xmltvDownload and I'll always try to be sure the enhancer is compatible...

[epgStream]

Sorry for all the posts, but there was one more thing to mention! We do supply another XMLTV guide service, called Free*EPG, which is enhanced based on ozTiVo.net and other guide attribute sources.

Our own Free*EPG XMLTV guide service is briefly documented here and you'll find up to 14 days worth of data, merged SD/HD channels, HD indicators, etc.

This XMLTV guide source requires you to use wget or our own dataDownload (not xmltvDownload) utility.

Thanks,