GetTheaterlisting Not working

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SRChuck,

Thanks for the file. That fixed it! Now all the theaters names show up correctly.

John

[srchuck]

More updated to GetTheaterListing!

This time there are two files you can download; one includes full source, and the other is just the binaries.

I've completely redone the HTML processing core of the app. Thanks go to Jeff Heaton (http://www.jeffheaton.com) for releasing a C# HTML parser under LGPL.

Very little original code is left from the original GetTheaterListing distribution; many things have been fixed, although there are probably more bugs.

The links:

(Source + binaries, with HTML parser source)
http://gcm.dnsalias.org/GetTheaterListings.zip

(GetTheaterListing binaries only)
http://gcm.dnsalias.org/GetTheaterListings-bin.zip

I'll work on adding features as I get time - movie lookups, etc. I haven't begun any work on actual plugins yet, just the backend apps. Ideally we'll be able to schedule theater listing downloads from within GB-PVR just like you can schedule television recordings.

Cheers,
SrChuck

[srchuck]

I'm also working on a nearly fully rewritten Theaters plugin - I'll post some mockup screens in the near future so you can see what my ideas for the user interface are. I have some interesting things in mind, which I'm sure will be enjoyed.
Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see added!
Suggestions will be noted and are appreciated

Some bits about the plugin's future:

--- Definite features ---
* [0%] It will collect listings whenever the listings it has are stale (listings will be collected via grabber plugins)

* [90%] You will be able to configure zip codes from GPBVR's setup app (as many as you want! - each zip code will be attached to a listing grabber plugin; any plugin can be assigned to any zip code (or city name, or whatever the plugin expects to see so it can search for your listings!

* [0%] Unfortunately, because exact matching can be problematic using IMDB, less extensive movie information will be gotten via fandango.com... I may still add IMDB support, but that will be on standby for now. I don't think you'd really want to scroll through a list of matches from IMDB just to find out about the movie you're interested in Fandango gives a pretty decent synopsis anyway.

--- Not so distant future ---
* [90%] Support for different theater listing grabbers. These would be implemented as DLLs, similar to the way GBPVR handles plugins. With a system like this, the plugin config interface would allow you to associate a different grabber to each zip/area code. Each grabber would be similar to XMLTV's listing grabbers, where they get information from different sites but return a consistently formatted XML datafile.

--- Potential features ---
* Perhaps some kind of alarm so if you want to catch a movie, you pick the show time, you can have it set an audible/visible alarm (need to see how feasible this is) so it can let you know that the show is starting soon and that you need to stop staring at your screen so you can get out there to see it!