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[whurlston]

Thats odd cause I am reading on MSDN about the Guide Store and it states for XP home or pro only.

Sorry. I didn't realize that the Guide Store was something different. I am actually referring to the EPG downloaded by MCE.

[sub]

Thats odd cause I am reading on MSDN about the Guide Store and it states for XP home or pro only.

He's right that only MCE and Vista have the guide data. Its the extra apps that are installed with MCE and Vista that pull down these listings. Maybe the API might be compatible with normal XP, but the listings arent there?

[Smoker]

Maybe this will clarify what I was reading and more about the guide store from MSDN

[sub]

Ah, thats something else entirely. This is referring to the listings that can be extracted from DVB and ATSC streams. It usually only carries the current and next show for each channel.

[madcat]

Wait, guys, Titan TV doesn't do Canada, if I read it correctly.
So, if for the (almost) same effort we can do it from another "provider" (in double-quotes, as they never meant to provide us with this sort of service...), why don't we go with one that does support Canada too?
I still think http://couchville.com, although not a SOAP service, does have the "text" only in their own structured text file (no HTML or anything) can give us similar results.

What do you say?

[sub]

I definitely think its worth using that TitanTV SOAP interface - its too good to pass up, but thats not to say another utility cant be developed which covers Canada too.

[Ryland]

Yes.It's not available on XP, only on MCE and Vista, but I have a Vista machine that I can pull the data from and I figured that there may be other people who also have Vista on at least one machine. Anyone who does will be able to pull the data from the guide store and then create an xmltv compliant file. This will help to cut down on the amount of traffic from grabbers.

Figuring I just started playing around with Vista could you tell me how to do this?

[ioan]

can somebody please post a xmltv xml file example? I want to make a small utility to pull program data from titantv's webservice (i will post the utility here with source code) and I'm too lazy to read xmltv's documentation.

-ioan

[sub]

can somebody please post a xmltv xml file example? I want to make a small utility to pull program data from titantv's webservice (i will post the utility here with source code) and I'm too lazy to read xmltv's documentation.

-ioan

Code:

<tv generator-info-name="tv_grab_uk">
  <channel id="bbc2.bbc.co.uk">
     <display-name lang="en">BBC2</display-name>
  </channel>
  <channel id="channel4.com">
     <display-name lang="en">Channel 4</display-name>
  </channel>

  <programme channel="bbc2.bbc.co.uk" start="20010829000500 +0100">
     <title lang="en">The Phil Silvers Show</title>
     <desc lang="en">
        Bilko claims he's had a close encounter with an alien in order
        to be given some compassionate leave so he can visit an old
        flame in New York.
     </desc>
  </programme>

  <programme channel="channel4.com" start="20010829095500 +0100">
     <title lang="en">King of the Hill</title>
     <sub-title lang="en">Meet the Propaniacs</sub-title>
     <desc lang="en">
         Bobby tours with a comedy troupe who specialize in
         propane-related mirth.
     </desc>
     <credits>
        <actor>Mike Judge</actor>
        <actor>Lane Smith</actor>
     </credits>
     <category lang="en">animation</category>
  </programme>
</tv>

Basically it starts with a set of <channel> tags, followed by a much larger set of <programme> tags, with the two tied together via the channel id. If you make the id the channel number, then GB-PVR will auto populate the channel number.

[flyswatta]

<title lang="en">The Phil Silvers Show</title>

Phil Silvers Show...now that brings back memories!