New XMLTV Enhancer and more...

[zehd]

In this case zehd, could you create and option to select what language we want to keep?

Done. It keeps track of all the elements that have language attributes now with a saved preference.

[zehd]

I've got the EPG xml processor to read and xml, gather and reform the data, and spit out al new xml file. When I don't show the progress, I get 26000 programme records processed in about 70 seconds on my 2ghz machine.

I do all my string processing with variables and arrays, and limit the disk access by dumping the reformed data to the output file in one pass...

Is that fast? I think it is, but maybe I'm missing something

[-Oz-]

Hmm, it takes yapi2xml 19 seconds to generate the xml file from the text file from yahoo for ~29000 records on my laptop.

[whurlston]

Should be much faster than that Frank. It may be something with the way you are iterating through the data. I'll have that dll to you in a couple of days and it should be much faster. I've just been swamped with the holidays and trying to catch up on the work I missed while I was away.

[zehd]

Should be much faster than that Frank. It may be something with the way you are iterating through the data. I'll have that dll to you in a couple of days and it should be much faster. I've just been swamped with the holidays and trying to catch up on the work I missed while I was away.

Yes, I'm iterating and moving data around...

I know that Jim_'s I-XMLTV tool a little while too. Though perhaps some of the time was the downloading of the data. I've forgotten how fast it was just processing the data.

What I have is working really well right now, but I would welcome the speed improvements. I hope I won't have to rewrite, but then that's part of the fun...

[zehd]

So as I sit moping that my xml parser isn't as fast as it could be, (although it does lots of cool stuff like repair xmltv and validates codepages and characster sets), I was thinking of a naming convention that -Oz- and I could use.

With my own software I usually name something with a Z preceding the title. Also, when saving settings to the registry I usually use my old Company name as the Parent key "ZERITECH"

But with this project, I wanted to know suggestions for a convention. Currently the project is broken up into separate modules.

The root name could be Ozehd. or maybe not, don't know. There's an EPG guide system in Australia called OzTivo...

Oz originally called it the Ultimate XMLTV app. I started calling it Ulti-XMLTV. Maybe UltraXMLTV ?

Any thoughts?

[-Oz-]

I like UltraXMLTV. It definitely does more than just handle EPGs so that may be the best way to go. I also am now done with the first set of holidays so I'm moving full tilt. But, do we have to worry that XMLTV is probably copyrighted to them so using it may be a bad move...

[whurlston]

I like UltraXMLTV. It definitely does more than just handle EPGs so that may be the best way to go. I also am now done with the first set of holidays so I'm moving full tilt. But, do we have to worry that XMLTV is probably copyrighted to them so using it may be a bad move...

I'm sure a quick email to Robert would sort that out. Or you could always use UltraXmlEpg.

[zehd]

well...

I tried and tried using the 'correct' way of getting info from the xml file, and then just decided on file I/O.

Just passing line by line from a 27000 record input file to an output file, I can do in 3 seconds.

When I add in all my data processing (and there's a lot) I get it at 23 secs when the wind blows just right. Because this its supposed to be running during EPG update, like in the middle of the night, I'm quiet happy with that...

I'm now looking for more sample xmltv files.

Here's what I have already:

Schedules Direct Canadian Lineup (from xmltv.exe)
MCE2XML file
Australian D1
Australian OzTivo
Australian IceTV

I'd like a Yapixml file from anywhere in NA

And I'd be happy to work on anything from around the world.

Just say, and I'll PM you my hotmail address. It handles large attachments...

[-Oz-]

sent you a digital and analog xmltv file from yapi2xml.