Wacky TV guide

[hzwaal]

Since switching over to a new XMLTV grabber, the TV guide of PVRX2 is completely screwed up:

* When I go to it from the main menu, I first get an empty screen with tags such as @duration on it.
* After a few seconds I get the TV guide, but certain channels are completely empty (no text or boxes at all). I checked the tvguide.xml and the missing channels are in there.
* When I press ESC to got to the main menu, the TV guide fades almost away but stays there. I do not get back to the main menu.
* When I press ESC again, I get the normal TV guide briefly and then it fades away again.

The strange thing is that GBPVR works just fine (as always).

I tried completely reinstalling GBPVR, but that didn't help either. I did reuse the config and db3 files, though.

I have searched through the logs, but can't find anything unusual. I have attached the following files (in logs.zip). Hopefully, one of you sees something wrong in it.

* pvrx2.exe-1.log : the log of updating the EPG through the tray icon
* pvrx2.exe.log : the log of the wacky TV guide session
* pvrx2.exe-native.log : the native log of the wacky TV guide session
* config.xml : my configuration
* tvguide.xml : the EPG input

[whurlston]

Since switching over to a new XMLTV grabber, the TV guide of PVRX2 is completely screwed up:

* When I go to it from the main menu, I first get an empty screen with tags such as @duration on it.

It takes a second to load the data.

* After a few seconds I get the TV guide, but certain channels are completely empty (no text or boxes at all). I checked the tvguide.xml and the missing channels are in there.

I suspect its due to bad characters like the following from your guide xml:

<title lang="nl">Der FilmMittwoch im Ersten: Die Frau am Ende der Straße</title>

* When I press ESC to got to the main menu, the TV guide fades almost away but stays there. I do not get back to the main menu.
* When I press ESC again, I get the normal TV guide briefly and then it fades away again.

Not sure on this one. Try a different renderer maybe.

[hzwaal]

Thanks for some very good suggestions... I tried some of them already.

It takes a second to load the data.

Strangely, I never experienced this before. Sometimes, I even need to press a key before it goes to the actual TV guide. Even if it were loading, it shouldn't be showing these tags... GBPVR is more or less instant.

I suspect its due to bad characters like the following from your guide

Oh, those Germans again ;-) I'll see what I can do about that. Oddly, it also happens for one of the Dutch channels (RTL 7, channelid=46), which doesn't contain any strange characters at first glance. What's also really strange is that even though the bar is completely black, I still can select things on it (no highlights either), but I do get the descriptions below and they seem ok. Also, GBPVR is not bothered by the strange characters.

Not sure on this one. Try a different renderer maybe.

As far as I know you cannot choose a different renderer in PVRX2. It always uses the VMR9 Custom renderer. I have also tried the Full Screen Exclusive on this one, but it behaves the same and gives me more headaches (black screens after resume from standby (the delayed startup doesn't work for me), and the desktop not being repainted after a program exit).

[hzwaal]

I suspect its due to bad characters like the following from your guide

I've decided to give my scripting skills a chance. Does anyone know what the proper format is for these characters. Is it the same as for HTML?

é : &eacute;
ä : &auml;
ß : &szlig;
etc?

IS GBPVR capable of dealing with those?

[whurlston]

It should be the HTML equivalent and GB-PVR should read them just fine.

I believe you only have to change them in the <title> and <subtitle> tags. I don't think you need to change them in the <desc> tag. Try it both ways.

[sub]

I've decided to give my scripting skills a chance. Does anyone know what the proper format is for these characters. Is it the same as for HTML?

é : &eacute;
ä : &auml;
ß : &szlig;
etc?

IS GBPVR capable of dealing with those?

From memory these characters dont need to encoded in this way, but you need to have the first line of the xml file specifying the correct encoding for a characterset where these are valid characters otherwise the Microsoft XML parser will determine these are invalid characters.

[hzwaal]

From memory these characters dont need to encoded in this way, but you need to have the first line of the xml file specifying the correct encoding for a characterset where these are valid characters otherwise the Microsoft XML parser will determine these are invalid characters.

First line is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

I have checked and it does contain all of the special characters, so that shouldn't be the problem then.

Sub, did you (re)use the same XMLTV parsing for PVRX2 as for GBPVR? I'm asking because GBPVR has no problems whatsoever with the file.

[sub]

First line is:

I have checked and it does contain all of the special characters, so that shouldn't be the problem then.

Ok, I dont know then.

Sub, did you (re)use the same XMLTV parsing for PVRX2 as for GBPVR? I'm asking because GBPVR has no problems whatsoever with the file.

Yes. The EPG importation actually has no relationship to what user interface you end up using. The EPG importation is taken care of by GBPVRBackendCommon.dll, which used by both.

[sub]

BTW, there is several errors in your logs that look like you've got multiple channels with the same channel numbers which is causing some problems.

[hzwaal]

Yes. The EPG importation actually has no relationship to what user interface you end up using. The EPG importation is taken care of by GBPVRBackendCommon.dll, which used by both.

So it couldn't really be that. Especially, the ESC is really cumbersome. Since I've already tried reinstalling from scratch (with existing config), I'm pretty much lost here. Should I try a completely fresh install (only possible after the weekend), or is there anything else I could try.