EPG Utility: YApi2XML (discontinued)

[whurlston]

But are you shuffling data around?

There is some shuffling going on but not much. I'm only moving what's necessary to convert from one format to the other. But both formats are strongtyped so shuffling data would be extremely fast.

[zehd]

Whurlston,
I would be DELIGHTED to wait! I would be ecstatic to wait! One thing you may bear in mind in making the "customized" app is daylight savings time. If you're going to hard-code the time zone in, you may want to make one for daylight savings time and another for standard time. I don't know as much about coding as I would like, so I'm not sure what kind of effort would need to be put in to do a "drop-down" where you could choose your timezone or a radio button to switch between daylight savings time and standard time. I will gladly be your guinea pig in this endeavor, however. Let me know and keep me posted on the progress. . .

Bryan

I have just added the functionality that you wanted to the Ultra-XMLTV Enhancer http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/UltraXMLTV

The defaults all pass through the data, so if you only want to change the start and stop times, you can do it without changing anything else.

Now, this feature was just added, and screen real estate is limited so it's temporary location is center bottom of the screen...

Legal values are integers, halfs or whole hours: 2, 2.5, -6, -3.5. If your try anything else, you will break it...

Good luck

[zehd]

The app I'm proposing for Bryan will only change the start/stop times though. The new MCE converter will not include any data enhancements like the new show marker in the titles. You've already done a solid app to do that so I don't see the point in me doing it too. You should be able to use my dlls to import and export the xmltv files quickly though. You can handle all the enhancements inbetween.

Edit: I just saw the "TimeOffset" attachment. That should do it.

I appreciate that you've noticed there could be redundancy...

I think the enhancer is doing great. Speed is the only problem.

VB6 is notorious for being slow with string search and replace. BUT. I'm not that worried about it as this activity should be done late at night when the epg is being downloaded, enhanced and imported into GB-PVR. Tweaking my app will only get the whole process about 1 minute quicker for huge files...

But in the interest in learning how to tweak and improve efficeniency, I'm looking forward to seeing your dlls...

[bryanbelt]

OH-MY-GOSH!!! It worked!!!! I have to tell you, Frank that I am MASSIVELY impressed. . .I owe you a debt of gratitude to my vanishing head of hair. . .This utility works EXTREMELY well. I have several friends that use the program I use and they will be ecstatic to realize that something's out there that works. Thank you again! I look forward to Whurlston's additions as well!

[whurlston]

VB6 is notorious for being slow with string search and replace.

I'm actually strongtyping the all the data so it actually reads the dates as dates instead of strings. I did a quick test with a 70MB test file with over 113,000 programs and I was able to append " {NEW}" to the titles of any programs that had a <previously-shown> or a <date> that was more than 6 days before the showing date. It took 40 milliseconds to complete.

[nirmelamoud]

comdlg32.ocx .. not correctly register: a file is missing or invalid

what should I do, (I installed the vb6 package no use)

thanks

[zehd]

comdlg32.ocx .. not correctly register: a file is missing or invalid

what should I do, (I installed the vb6 package no use)

thanks

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/ZTools#toc8

[nirmelamoud]

Thanks, thats works

[admin69]

I use this with GBPVR 99.12 on Win2K and schedule my updates for 2PM - (schedules not at all reliable for me at night - YMMV). Default location and name are C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr with the filename UpdateEPG.BAT -- edit the paths and directories to work in your environment. Yes, I create another log file but since it is text only, it will take quite some time to grow to any significant size. Have used it for several weeks and has worked great.

...Yes CHOICE.COM is from the DOS days but any type delay (ping loopback fifteen times for example) will serve the same purpose. Watch for line wraps !

Copy lines between asterisks

*****Batch file follows*****


::UpdateEPG.BAT Written by admin69, 2008

SET batchname=GBPVR + yapi2xml + UltraXMLTV_Enhancer EPG Updater
SET version=0.2.3
TITLE=%batchname%, Version %version%

SET tp=C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party
C:
CD \
CD %tp%\yapi2xml
TYPE yapi2xml_log.txt>>yapilogs.txt
DEL yapi2xml_log.txt
COPY yapixml.xml yapixml.1st
"%tp%\yapi2xml\yapi2xml.exe" update
FIND "Process complete :-)" yapi2xml_log.txt
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
TYPE NUL | CHOICE.COM /N /CY /TY,15 >NUL
"%tp%\UltraXMLTV_Enhancer\UltraXMLTV_Enhancer.exe" "%tp%\yapi2xml\yapixml.xml"
GOTO success
:error
C:
CD \
CD %tp%\yapi2xml
DEL yapixml.xml
REN yapixml.1st yapixml.xml
uccess
DEL yapixml.1st


*****Batch file precedes*****

[zehd]

I use this with GBPVR 99.12 on Win2K and schedule my updates for 2PM - (schedules not at all reliable for me at night - YMMV). Default location and name are C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr with the filename UpdateEPG.BAT -- edit the paths and directories to work in your environment. Yes, I create another log file but since it is text only, it will take quite some time to grow to any significant size. Have used it for several weeks and has worked great.

...Yes CHOICE.COM is from the DOS days but any type delay (ping loopback fifteen times for example) will serve the same purpose. Watch for line wraps !

Copy lines between asterisks

*****Batch file follows*****


::UpdateEPG.BAT Written by admin69, 2008

SET batchname=GBPVR + yapi2xml + UltraXMLTV_Enhancer EPG Updater
SET version=0.2.3
TITLE=%batchname%, Version %version%

SET tp=C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party
C:
CD \
CD %tp%\yapi2xml
TYPE yapi2xml_log.txt>>yapilogs.txt
DEL yapi2xml_log.txt
COPY yapixml.xml yapixml.1st
"%tp%\yapi2xml\yapi2xml.exe" update
FIND "Process complete :-)" yapi2xml_log.txt
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
TYPE NUL | CHOICE.COM /N /CY /TY,15 >NUL
"%tp%\UltraXMLTV_Enhancer\UltraXMLTV_Enhancer.exe" "%tp%\yapi2xml\yapixml.xml"
GOTO success
:error
C:
CD \
CD %tp%\yapi2xml
DEL yapixml.xml
REN yapixml.1st yapixml.xml
uccess
DEL yapixml.1st


*****Batch file precedes*****

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