TV Listings - Support Thread

[alibert]

Hi,

please feel free to post any questions regarding to this plugin here. I'll try my best to help you.

Wiki page:
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/TVListings

-alibert

[stu8080]

Im getting the following error when i use this:
12/08/2006 15:22:29.609 ERROR [11] TVListings: Error creating programme for channel 'ITV3': Specified cast is not valid.
12/08/2006 15:22:29.609 ERROR [11] at System.Data.OleDb.ColumnBinding.ValueInt64()
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataReader.GetInt64(Int32 ordinal)
at GBPVR.TVListings.DatabaseHelper.GetListingsForChannel(TVChannel channel, DateTime startTime, DateTime endTime)

Im using ContourHC, and i copied the TV Listings skin folder over to Contour?

Plus im using xmltv data

EDIT: It wont populate the guide and gives a string of the same errors for each channel
EDIT: I get the same problem with the Blue skin

any ideas?

[alibert]

Hi,

I've just uploaded an updated dll on the wiki.
Please try again with the new file and report if it solves the problem.

-alibert

[stu8080]

Works like a charm!

Cheers alibert

[ShiningDragon]

Mhm... first impression: Works very good =)

Mhm... how can i use the pictures for the series? I have a premium acc by TV-Movie and download the program with the clickfinder. But because this format isn't suitable for GB-PVR i convert them automatically per Tasksheduler with TVM2XML.EXE into a .xml format.
I choosed nearly all options within this converter. How did you resolve this?

[alibert]

Hi,

Mhm... first impression: Works very good =)

Mhm... how can i use the pictures for the series? I have a premium acc by TV-Movie and download the program with the clickfinder. But because this format isn't suitable for GB-PVR i convert them automatically per Tasksheduler with TVM2XML.EXE into a .xml format.
I choosed nearly all options within this converter. How did you resolve this?

I'm also using clickfinder, but I am using my own utitlity to convert the data to xmltv - including the icon information. Then I update the GBPVR-database in PostUpdateEPG to add the image urls to the programme table (see EpgUpdater for details).
I can provide also my conversion-utility (clickfinder data -> and xmltv) - just PM me your email-address and I can send it to you.

-alibert

[reven]

im unable to get the xmltvicon (or the old exe file for that matter) to read in any icons, heres a sample of my xmltv file

Code:

<programme start="200608130900" stop="200608130950" channel="03">
    <title lang="en">Pukana</title>
    <desc lang="en">
    </desc>
    <icon src="http://www.tv3.co.nz/Portals/0/ShowImages/1_12838.jpg" />
    <category>Maori</category>
    <rating system="NZ">
      <value>G</value>
    </rating>
  </programme>
  <programme start="200608130950" stop="200608131015" channel="03">
    <title lang="en">Tu Te Puehu</title>
    <desc lang="en">
    </desc>
    <icon src="http://www.tv3.co.nz/Portals/0/ShowImages/1_12838.jpg" />
    <category>Maori</category>
    <rating system="NZ">
      <value>PGR</value>
    </rating>
  </programme>
  <programme start="200608131015" stop="200608131200" channel="03">
    <title lang="en">Home And Away Omnibus</title>
    <desc lang="en">
    </desc>
    <icon src="http://www.tv3.co.nz/Portals/0/ShowImages/Home%20&amp;amp;%20Away/HomeAndAway_BANNER.jpg" />
    <category>Drama</category>
  </programme>
  <programme start="200608131200" stop="200608131300" channel="03">
    <title lang="en">The Crocodile Hunter Diaries</title>
    <sub-title lang="en">South Pacific Croc Rescue</sub-title>
    <desc lang="en">Australia Zoo's new International Croc Rescue Unit is called out to capture a rogue crocodile in Vanuatu.</desc>
    <icon src="http://www.tv3.co.nz/Portals/0/ShowImages/1_12838.jpg" />
    <category>General Entertainment</category>
    <rating system="NZ">
      <value>G</value>
    </rating>
  </programme>
  <programme start="200608131300" stop="200608131400" channel="03">
    <title lang="en">Knight Rider</title>
    <sub-title lang="en">Return To Cadiz</sub-title>
    <desc lang="en">Michael and KITT go on an underwater hunt for sunken treasure.</desc>
    <icon src="http://www.tv3.co.nz/Portals/0/ShowImages/1_12885.jpg" />
    <category>Drama</category>
    <rating system="NZ">
      <value>PGR</value>
    </rating>
  </programme>

[alibert]

Hi,

I found out what is going wrong. My xmltv datetime regex searches for a pattern with seconds included, and you don't have seconds in your times.

I've changed "XmltvIcons" to support shorter datetime-strings now. Download at the wiki.

-alibert

[reven]

cheers its working now

[zehd]

Question: I'm using TVGuideSupercharger
to download my data, and then have GB-PVR update it's guide from the resulting tvguide.xml....

Will your guide work with this?

(looks really good...)