Display 'Rerun' and 'Original Air Date' information

[capone]

The airdate would be great...rerun is fine, but knowing if it's a recent rerun (something you may have missed this season) over a syndication-age airing would be useful.

[dinki]

Repeat and Original Air Date.
I'm interested in opinion’s on "where" this should be added to the guide?

I never use the guide/gui to set up recordings. I strictly use the web admin. In regards to the web admin, it'd be cool to list the additional data in the same 'block' as the rating, genre, etc.

Keep in mind, if "Rerun" is added to the title of a program, GBPVR "season record" would not record them.
But you could also schedule a show with "Rerun" in the title to record all the old episodes. This could actually be a plus in some cases.

Another option is to put the original airdate &/or episode number in the sub title. Then, if a program doesn’t have a subtitle or description, it would have one containing the original airdate. This would also help RecTracker to avoid dupes.

Ideas?

Interesting. Not familiar enough with the scheduler to make a suggestion though.

Thanks for your efforts!

[Jim_]

"recent rerun" logic may be above my ability, but I'm open for ideas on how to do it?
What I’ll probably do is use switches so the user can decide what information they want added and where they want it.

Like:
/0t = add zeros (indicating star-rating) to the start of movie titles for MPV movie searches. (done)
/t* = add star-rating to end of movie titles. (done)
/*t = add star-rating to the beginning of movie titles. (done)
/td = add release date to movie titles. (done)
/mr = add movie rating to the title
/tr = add “rerun” to the end of “series” titles.
/rs =add “rerun” to the start of the subtitle.
/ds = add “original air date” to the start of the subtitle.
/es = add episode number to the start of the subtitle.

I-xmltv [InFile] /mr /t* /td /tr /es /ds

Movie:
title>> Twins *** (1988) PG

Not Movie:
Title>> UFO Files –rerun-
Sub-title >> 0007 (20040920) Soviet UFO Secrets Revealed

This is an example of the actual Zap2It xmltv (series) information. Some shows have more, or less, information available.
All I would do is compare <programme start="20060522 with <date>20040920</date> for -rerun-

Code:

<programme start="20060522150000 +0000" stop="20060522160000 +0000" channel="I14771.labs.zap2it.com">
    <title lang="en">UFO Files</title>
    <sub-title lang="en">Soviet UFO Secrets Revealed</sub-title>
    <desc lang="en">The Soviet government investigates UFOs for 13 years.</desc>
    <date>20040920</date>
    <category lang="en">Documentary</category>
    <category lang="en">Paranormal</category>
    <category lang="en">Series</category>
    <episode-num system="dd_progid">EP669511.0007</episode-num>
    <subtitles type="teletext" />
    <rating system="VCHIP">
      <value>TV-PG</value>
    </rating>
  </programme>

[Jim_]

I never use the guide/gui to set up recordings. I strictly use the web admin. In regards to the web admin, it'd be cool to list the additional data in the same 'block' as the rating, genre, etc.

I'm afraid that would break other things that depend on a proper genre format. But I’ll give it some thought. This is going to get complicated in a hurry, isn’t it, lol...

Interesting. Not familiar enough with the scheduler to make a suggestion though.

Thanks for your efforts!

your welcome, but I wouldn’t suggest that anyone starts holding their breath just yet.

[Jim_]

Making some progress.
The xmltv EPG additions are user selectable, as are the brackets.
I-xmltv [Infile] /switch/() /OriginalTitlePosition /switch

Using the Original-AirDate is a little problematic for determining reruns & premiere’s, because sometimes the Original-AirDate is a few days in the future?
Does anyone know how xmltv's tv_grab_na_dd "onscreen" </episode-num> is formatted? I'd like to see if it can be used, but I’m finding nothing.

If you have a preference for the wording, or would rather have something like a “*” in the title for reruns, let me know.

[matthrolf]

For those who use zap2it the unique id is in the database. ID's are 12 char in length, starting with 2 alpha ending with 10 numbers. The first two MV for movies, EP for episode, SH for show, and more.

Zap2it does transmit the original air date, the database (as Sub said) does not retain it.

Long story short, I second the notion that the zap2it data processor would retain the air date.

[Jim_]

My wish is for sub to remove Zap2It as an option in the config utility.

I’m adding features to I-xmltv because I want them! And because I believe people will continue to use “complete EPG reload”, multiple computers, multiple capture cards, multiple downloads, until our only free EPG source is gone...
Ultimately this is Zap2It's problem because they didn’t supply a single downloadable file, in a standard that could be used by all programs. Xmltv comes very close to doing just that, and takes 10-minutes to install.
RecTracker, X-Record & VideoArchiver will avoid duplicates, and let you "see" and manage them at the same time.

[Jim_]

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Display 'Rerun' and 'Original Air Date' information

Utility is being tested for compatibility with the new version of GBPVR, and latest version can be found in the link below.
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=16209

[sub]

My wish is for sub to remove Zap2It as an option in the config utility.

lol - thats never going to happen.

[Jim_]

lol - thats never going to happen.

Yea I know, and I thought you'd get a chuckle out of that one.
You added xmltv zap2it unique-id support in the latest version and that's awesome, thank you!
See any problems with the format of the utility I posted?
Thanks again for a great program!