New XMLTV Enhancer and more...

[zehd]

GB-PVR does show ratings icons. It just throws this info away.

sub, how does it find the correct icon to display, if it's not i the database.

Also, did you see by other post about a possible bug, where if an xml file has both a Star Rating and a Rating entry, only the Star Rating displays?

[zehd]

According to the xmltv DTD, when denoting a new show, the absence of a Previously-shown date:

The absence of this element does not say for certain that the
programme is brand new and has never been screened anywhere before.

In the UK sample files I recently tried (thanks guys) The Premiere field displays "Not a repeat". That's not a convention on the other sources I've tried...

There is also a <new/> tag, which I have still not found a sample that may use that. I suspect it would be present only if the source feels it's a new show...

It's obvious I will have to have several different new show detection procedures...

[zehd]

-Oz- I checked your data file from yapi2xml and saw some characters that looked funny

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

...

  <programme start="20071201090000 +0000" stop="20071201110000 +0000" channel="0002">
    <title>Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy</title>
    <desc>Two wrestlers (Lorena Vel zquez, Elisabeth Campbell) face thieves seeking treasure in an Aztec tomb and a mummy with the ability to transmogrify.</desc>
    <credits>
      <director>Ren‚ Cardona</director>
      <actor>Lorena Vel zquez</actor>
      <actor>Elisabeth Campbell</actor>
      <actor>Armando Silvestre</actor>
      <actor>Maria Eugenia San Mart¡n</actor>
      <actor>Chucho Salinas</actor>
      <actor>Ramon Bugarini</actor>
      <actor>Victor Velaquez</actor>
      <actor>Ton-La Tapatia</actor>
      <actor>Irma Gonzalez</actor>
      <actor>Chabela Romero</actor>
      <writer>Guillermo Calder¢n</writer>
      <writer>Alfredo Salazar</writer>
      <producer>Guillermo Calder¢n</producer>
    </credits>
    <date>1964</date>
    <category>Movie</category>
    <category>Horror</category>
    <length units="minutes">128</length>
    <episode-num system="dd_progid">MV000788170000</episode-num>
    <rating system="VCHIP">
      <value>TVPG</value>
    </rating>
    <rating system="MPAA">
      <value>NR</value>
    </rating>
    <star-rating>
      <value>1.0</value>
    </star-rating>
  </programme>

I suspect that the yapi2xml program isn't saving to a codepage that supports the Spanish Character set

[sub]

sub, how does it find the correct icon to display, if it's not i the database.

Sorry - typo. I'd meant to say 'doesnt'. It doesnt keep this info because it doesnt display this icon.

Also, did you see by other post about a possible bug, where if an xml file has both a Star Rating and a Rating entry, only the Star Rating displays?

I dont think I'd come across a star rating before. GB-PVR's SAX style of XML parsing had always assumed if it was in a <Value> tag then it is the Rating.

[zehd]

Sorry - typo. I'd meant to say 'doesnt'. It doesnt keep this info because it doesnt display this icon.

I dont think I'd come across a star rating before. GB-PVR's SAX style of XML parsing had always assumed if it was in a <Value> tag then it is the Rating.

Well icons, aside, both StarRating and Ratings will appear in the top part of the TV Guide details. But when they are both present in the programme record, only StarRating appears...

[sub]

GB-PVR doesnt try to do anything with star-rating. It only intended to show the Rating. The reason you could be ending up with the star-rating stored in the GB-PVR's rating field is because GB-PVR's SAX parsing had always assumed if it was in a <Value> tag then it is the Rating. I'll try to fix it for the next release.

[zehd]

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[-Oz-]

-Oz- I checked your data file from yapi2xml and saw some characters that looked funny

I suspect that the yapi2xml program isn't saving to a codepage that supports the Spanish Character set

What is a codepage? Definitely something to look into though.

And I'll have to test what you've done tomorrow, and really get my butt in gear.

[zehd]

What is a codepage? Definitely something to look into though.

And I'll have to test what you've done tomorrow, and really get my butt in gear.

I think the CodePage tag in the header of an xml file, tells the parser how to translate certain characters. Most of my data file from NA use utf-8, and that also displays french characters. I don't know if it will do Spanish.

I know I had to check for and repair if necessary, xml files that had Swedish characters, but used the incorrect utf-8 codepage. I change it to ISO-8859-1

Maybe you could change the code in your yapi prg to use utf-8 and then see... If that doesn't work, try a codepage that supports Spanish. I don't know them off hand, but saw a list available when I searched for ISO-8859-1...

Let me know which one you use, and I can build a checking function into the Enhancer

[zehd]

Ordering of fields and brackets...

I'd like some input here.

Currently if I have all extra info move to the Description it looks like:

(1990-10-11)(Actors: Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson. Guests: Shelly Cole, Shawn Michael Patrick. Directed by Gloria Muzio.)(****)(TV-14)(HD Simulcast, 16:9, stereo)(60 min)(First showing on national terrestrial TV)(ES)(teletext)

(The Previously-shown date is 'Prepended' to the description field, like it was with I-xmltv, and how ZRename currently likes to see.) I'm planning on adding the option to include the Previously-shown data to the Description tag too.

My question is formatting.

I suppose I could make a sortable array that allows for users to choose in what order to display the extra data.

I could give options for bracket styles, or having the whole line included in just one set of brackets...

Currently I'm not doing anything with the episode numbers as there doesn't seem to be a consistent system the different countries are using. It may have to wait till -oz- and I build the online database scraper program.

Any Ideas?