TV Listings - Support Thread

[rever]

Hi,
OK I have ran this against my tvguide.xml file it failed at first. What I needed to do was remove 2 lines that the exe was not understanding. I compeleted successfully but I do not have any art or pictures. Is this suppose to download this info for me or am I to do this manually. Any help would be great.

[alibert]

Hi,

Hi,
OK I have ran this against my tvguide.xml file it failed at first. What I needed to do was remove 2 lines that the exe was not understanding. I compeleted successfully but I do not have any art or pictures. Is this suppose to download this info for me or am I to do this manually. Any help would be great.

I assume that you're talking about the utility XmltvIcons. If your xmltv epg source does not write out the <icon> tag for porgrammes, then the utility is also not able to find the needed information.

You can check easily if your xmltv epg source supports the <icon> tag inside the <programme> by doing the following steps:
- open your xmltv file
- do a search for "<icon>"
- check the search results

If there are matches for <icon> that are not inside the <channel>, but inside a <programme> element, then your xmltv source can be used by the XmltvIcons utility.

If you have no luck and your xmltv source is not supplying you with the necessary <icon> tags, then you can do some manual steps to get images displayed along with programmes. You can just put image files for programme-titles into a directory that you've specified in the configuration of the plugin, and then they will show up when you open a programme with the same name. More about this can be read on the wiki page of the plugin.

Carlito has written an utility that will download images automatically (wiki page).

-alibert

[alibert]

Hi,

the upcoming release of the TV Listings plugin will cover the following improvements and bugfixes:

1. Added support for a client/server setup. It is also possible to display the icons sored on the server or use the server's IconDictionary.xml file. To do so, just enter the correct UNC-Path to the server in the plugin's configuration.
- "Problems with TV Listings on client" (http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...tcount=124)

2. Paddings of scheduled season recordings are now updated automatically for already existant shows in the epg.
- "Issue with padding and reoccurring recordings" (http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...tcount=129)

3. The appearance of the channels in the listings screen can now be adjusted via a "CompositeImage" element in the skin.xml file.
- "Display of Channel Logo Icons Only, Channel Text Only, or Both (Side by Side)" (http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...tcount=103)
- Example screenshot, example skin.xml

4. The plugin now recognizes EPG updates, and then starts loading the updated data automatically in the background.
- "Recordings list as manual recordings" (http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...tcount=135)
- "After i update the epg from within GBPVR, I need to restart it" (http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...stcount=53)
- "Recordings has wrong show name" (http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?p=151379)


As because of the new features and as I'm currently not able to test everything in all different scenarios, I decided to provide a pre-release of the plugin, especially for the authors of the above comments. Please let me know if everything's working okay now or not.

Download is here.

-alibert

[Carlito]

alibert,
I can't seem to find the composite image to change for showing both icon and text for a channel. Which image do we need to change in the skin.xml file?

[alibert]

Hi,

alibert,
I can't seem to find the composite image to change for showing both icon and text for a channel. Which image do we need to change in the skin.xml file?

there are the following lines in the skin.xml file, right above the special elements:

Code:

<!-- variables that can used include: icon, name, number, iconAlternativeName -->
<!-- iconAlternativeName will only be drawn if there is no icon for the channel available -->
<CompositeImage name="Channel" size="60,40">
    <DrawRect loc="0,0" size="59,39" borderWidth="1" borderColor="ChannelIconSurround" fillColor="ChannelNameRectangle"/>
    <DrawText text="@iconAlternativeName" loc="0,0" size="60,40" textStyle="ChannelNames" align="Center"/>
    <DrawImage filename="@icon" loc="1,1" size="58,38"/>
</CompositeImage>
<CompositeImage name="SelectedChannel" size="60,40">
    <DrawRect loc="0,0" size="59,39" borderWidth="1" borderColor="ChannelIconSurround" fillColor="ChannelNameRectangle"/>
    <DrawText text="@iconAlternativeName" loc="0,0" size="60,40" textStyle="ChannelNames" align="Center"/>
    <DrawImage filename="@icon" loc="1,1" size="58,38"/>
</CompositeImage>

I've also posted an example skin.xml that will show an additional column with channel numbers in my posting above. I think it's quite self-explanatory, but if you have any further questions let me know.

-alibert

[Carlito]

Thank alibert, I missed the DrawTextWithOutline section.
Good work on the new features

[piotre]

Hi,

2. Paddings of scheduled season recordings are now updated automatically for already existant shows in the epg.
- "Issue with padding and reoccurring recordings" (http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...tcount=129)


-alibert

@alibert: I installed your new pre-release but it does not seem to have changed in the padding issue. I am not supposed to change something in the config, am I? I just extracted your plugin to the gbpvr directory overwriting the old files and restarted GBPVR.

I still have the same issue and even reloading the EPG from within GBPVR (system plugin) does not correct the padding.

Am I missing something?

Cheers, piotre

[alibert]

Please zip and attach your logfiles when scheduling a season recording and I'll have a look.

-alibert

[piotre]

Hi alibert,

attached you can find my logs zipped. I scheduled "Tagesschau" yesterday, 30.01.07 at around 19:00h as a reoccurring recording with 1 minute pre- and postpadding. The reoccurring shows up right in scheduled recordings but the indivudual recordings still have the default padding of 2 minutes pre- and 6 minutes postpadding.

Cheers, Piotre

[alibert]

Hi,

it seems that you're still using the official version that is available on the wiki. Please try the pre-release version that is linked in my post above.

-alibert