tv guide not recognizing zap2xml results
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2007-09-20, 05:08 PM
hollow5555 Wrote:I don't think it does internally, but you can control which channels it gets by changing your settings at zap2its website. What channels would I need to disable? I'm not sure what LOOR actually refers to, to be honest.You wuld need to go through the channels in the XML file and see which IDs have duplicates. Each ID should be unique.
2007-09-20, 05:41 PM
Success!!!
It turns out my cable provider (Comcast... oh how I love thee... let me sarcastically count the ways... 1... umm... 1... uh... hrmm... give me a minute, i might think of one) has a number of channels that change into other channels at various times of day... that resulted in a few duplicate listings... Now here is where Comcast gets a little devious... In what I can only assume is an attempt to force people to use digital, they've been slowly moving channels into the higher numbered range so you can only get them on digital. Clever, sure, but what they're doing is actually DUPLICATING channels as the transition occurs. For instance, Game Show Network (GSN) is channel 57 for me, but it is ALSO 176 (or something like that). The same channel, the same feed, the same everything... that means it's in my listing TWICE, and that's just wreaking havoc with GBPVR apparently. It took me a while to weed them all out (partly because I SWEAR zap2it keeps re-adding some of the duplicates to my favorites list... maybe I'm just paranoid) but I just did a manual update (from the config panel) and it worked!!! Hopefully this will continue in the coming days, weeks, months, and years! Thanks for all of the help and patience, guys. Keep up the great work!
2007-09-20, 05:43 PM
whurlston Wrote:You wuld need to go through the channels in the XML file and see which IDs have duplicates. Each ID should be unique. Yep, that's what i did. Thanks for being patient with my apparent bumbling :o
2007-09-20, 06:17 PM
They have to go digital in about two years. It's also in their interest (and yours) to do so. They can carry many more channels in digital than they can analog given the same bandwidth.
Glad you got your guide sorted out.
2007-09-20, 07:10 PM
whurlston Wrote:They have to go digital in about two years. It's also in their interest (and yours) to do so. They can carry many more channels in digital than they can analog given the same bandwidth. I thought they pushed that date back to 2011 recently. Either way, I'm already digital but the way Comcast is migrating channels annoys me because it causes me so much grief with this stuff  Thanks again
2007-09-20, 07:25 PM
Sorry, yeah, that's about 3 years. I keep thinking next february is the analog cut-off. It 2009 and the cable analog cutoff is +2 years.
2007-09-20, 08:10 PM
Ok, I have tracked the problem for me down to the presence of an ampersand in the title string for a program. I cut down my xml file to a single channel and a days worth of programs. It loaded. So I expanded to another channel. That one cut off before it should have, so I looked at the program just AFTER it cut off and found an ampersand in the title. I changed the ampersand (&) to the word AND and reprocessed. Sure enough, a few more channels got processed before another ampersand was encountered.
What the heck is this? Gbpvr can't parse an xml file that contains an ampersand in one of the strings? I can fix this easy enough, but something sure doesn't seem right to me about that (as a programmer), the whole point of XML is to allow the content between two tags to be independent on any other delimiters??? Is the xml plugin an after-thought item?
2007-09-20, 08:19 PM
whurlston Wrote:Sorry, yeah, that's about 3 years. I keep thinking next february is the analog cut-off. It 2009 and the cable analog cutoff is +2 years. Cable analog cut-off? 2009 is the broadcast analog cut-off, and I thought that was the only one. It's certainly the only one the FCC should care about. Is Comcast et al doing the latter on their own?
2007-09-20, 11:01 PM
iojedi Wrote:What the heck is this? Gbpvr can't parse an xml file that contains an ampersand in one of the strings? I can fix this easy enough, but something sure doesn't seem right to me about that (as a programmer), the whole point of XML is to allow the content between two tags to be independent on any other delimiters??? Is the xml plugin an after-thought item?"&" in titles should be "&" This is common practice among XMLTv files. icrf Wrote:Cable analog cut-off? 2009 is the broadcast analog cut-off, and I thought that was the only one. It's certainly the only one the FCC should care about. Is Comcast et al doing the latter on their own?http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/devlin/15959 I was wrong on that too.. it's +3 years (2012): Quote:Remember the 2009 analog-to-digital TV deadline we've told you about? That affects people who have analog TVs and still rely on over-the-air broadcasts for their TV viewing. But a deadline for how cable companies are going to deal with the analog-to-digital switchover had not been setâuntil now. |
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