New XMLTV Enhancer and more...

[zehd]

zehd - great tool, I had one more enhancement request -

Ixmltv and epgextra allow you to append the star rating and/or year to the title of movies so you can see them directly on the guide ie: Derailed (3.5*) (2003) - in some cases people might want this and to create the ratings as a category
Also I think Ixmltv allows you to choose your rating text ie 4* or 4 stars or 4/5 (you get the point).

Cheers,

CV

Also FYI your utility is hard find on the wiki - it doesn't show up in the left menu bar under utilities.

It's still in beta, so its off the beaten path for the moment...

You can already do the stars thing. First select the Max Stars. That will be your calculated denominator. But it won't be your displayed denominator if you want to see it.

I suggest the tag string of [StarRating]/5 or [StarRating]*

A question. So in your example, "Derailed" is a movie title? and you can see it along with the star rating and the year while viewing the main default TV Guide? or are you using TV Listings?

[carpeVideo]

Thanks for the quick response-

A question. So in your example, "Derailed" is a movie title? and you can see it along with the star rating and the year while viewing the main default TV Guide? or are you using TV Listings?

Yes - "Derailed" is a movie title. Guess I should have used "Lord of the Rings" we all know that one :0)

I use TV listings - although GBPVR only allows TV guide if you want to view it while watching TV - so I guess I use both.

Here is what it looks like:

[zehd]

Thanks for the quick response-



Yes - "Derailed" is a movie title. Guess I should have used "Lord of the Rings" we all know that one :0)

I use TV listings - although GBPVR only allows TV guide if you want to view it while watching TV - so I guess I use both.

Here is what it looks like:

I need you to dig into something for me. It seems that the title of the movies is actually getting changed. That would mean that when the movie is recorded, it will be part of the filename. (Don't really like that)

If you record one of those movies, does the filename include all that extra information?

Or another way is to open the gbpvr.db3 and see the programme table and see whether the title includes that info...

[carpeVideo]

It gets into the filename and directory name when you record - I have one that is this:
Constantine [2005] [R] 3*.

I see why a purist wouldn't like it but since its and end user option I don't see its a big deal,

CV

[zehd]

It gets into the filename and directory name when you record - I have one that is this:
Constantine [2005] [R] 3*.

I see why a purist wouldn't like it but since its and end user option I don't see its a big deal,

CV

Not a problem. I will have the option to toss those fields into the Title soon.

[zehd]

There's a new feature I'd like people to try out.

version .48 has been released

The Enhancer will go online and download the episode information for all shows set to record in GB-PVR recording schedule.

For now, this is hard coded for c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.db3 the database...

Here are the basic steps to enable the online lookup.

First open the Enhancer and click 'Get Ep Info'. In the second form click "Get Ep Num Online'. X out of the sub form...

Now, for this proof of concept, the EpNum is overridden with the new online Season/Episode Numbers. So you should select an action that will show you the EpNum. I chose to 'Append to Sub-title'

The first time should be the longest, and that completely depends on how many entries in the Recording Schedule.

While it is fetching it will display fetching, after a while, it will start to process like normal.

The Fetch should be a lot faster the next time around

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How it works...

The Enhancer gets a list of all Status 4 Recording events from the GB-PVR database.

When it starts fetching, it iterates through the list and tries to download two xml files from tvdb.com: [Show Title].Series.xml and [Show Title].Episodes.xml

Now if it sees that a series has ended like 'Star Trek', it will also create a small marker file: [Show Title].Ended Subsequentally, the enhancer will not try to download anymore for this show...

Let's say there is a show that doesn't match the online database or that there is no data. The Enhancer will make a small marker file: [Show Title].Wrong.Data Subsequentally, the enhancer will not try to download anymore for this show...

You can also manually select a show that should not have info downloaded.
Open the sub form (click 'Get Ep Info'). In the top drop down list there is a list of your shows. Find the one you don't want to download for and then click 'Don't Fetch'. The Enhancer will make a small marker file: [Show Title].Dont.Fetch Subsequentally, the enhancer will not try to download anymore for this show...

When the Enhancer does want to download for a season recording, it only downloads the Episodes, as hopefully the Series name does not change during a season...

So after the first time trying the season recordings, the Enhancer should not have to download as much as at the beginning....

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My first download of 18 shows gets done in 27 seconds, with a 2ghz machine and 1.5Mb internet.

The next time around, where several files aren't downloaded, and skipped is 7 seconds. This all happens at the beginning of the processing.

During the data shuffling in the processing, when a title-and subtitle match the recording schedule list we got from the gbpvr.db3, it queries the downloaded corresponding xml files. Much faster now that they're already downloaded. And we have season/episode numbers!


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Things I need to do: The Enhancer gets it's list from all recording events. That means it will also try to get info for movies , sports, and other types of TV. That also means that the Enhancer will try to download a couple of files for each event. If it fails, it will create a 'wrong.data' file, but that also means that the cache folder holding these little xml files will get filled.

I have to think of a way to watch this and purge it regularly.

[gEd]

msinet.ocx is required....googling...

[whurlston]

Download the Yapi2XmlTv tool from the wiki. It's in the package.

[Wakalaka]

where can i download .48 release?

[zehd]

msinet.ocx is required....googling...

Oops. Yeah I gotta add that to my extras. Whurlston is right, it's in the Yapi tool too...