New XMLTV Enhancer and more...

[gnutech]

If you would like to have data, placed in locations other than currently available, just ask. I'll see if I can do it. Most likely I will.

Officially, would you mind adding the prepending/appending of Ratings, Len/Dur, and Date to the sub-title? Thanks.

The reason I don't have an option to download ep info for everything is because, there are many many shows, that I would have to download info for. That would be crazy big.

Actually just for fun I guess I will set it up to do it just to see how long. I will make a log to count all the shows. The logic is already in place that if the show is actually ended, the there will be no further downloads. (eg "Star Trek" (TOS) would only ever be downloaded once.)

But even if the data is already on your hard drove, it still takes a fraction of a second to query that data. Over 29000 - 87000 records (that I've been testing with ) that adds up. That's why I have not included this option, thus far. Also, when I started this project I was only using Dial up, and I wasn't going to download 20000 shows' info on dial up.

I would be happy to help test this feature if you would like. I not too concerned about how long it might take when it is updating itself at 2:00 a.m.

Specifically, the episode information included in any of the north American EPGs, dare I say, ANY at all, actually correspond to the season/episode format that I and many use. Therefore, it would be useless to only download if the episode info is not already in the record, because in most cases, it is, but it's not what I want, so it's either all or nothing, or the ones that you have selected from Recurring Recordings, or manually added to the fetch list.

You are quite right. I believe I was thinking of the EpOnScreen information that I have been forced to live with that I was thinking of. You've given me a taste of perfectly formated season/episode EPG information and I want more!

In any case, I suspect no one will actually want to download all shows' episode information, yet I will add that feature, and also create that text list, so that you can manually (and tediously) edit it and then use it for your fetch list...

Thanks, Zehd. Your the ultra EPG enhancing man!

Regards,


Gary

P.S. Does the renamer only produce dot delimited file names or can it produce space delimited file names, too?

[zehd]

P.S. Does the renamer only produce dot delimited file names or can it produce space delimited file names, too?

Currently yes. In fact you can't even turn it on or off. Always a period... (I don't save the settings.

Another reason I always have something there, (a period is the most unobtrusive - and I hate underscores) is that if you have a file name all one contiguous string (no spaces) you avoid all sorts of long file name problems.

My code watches out for them anyway, but it's something I've noticed as being a standard for downloading..

[zehd]

Just a heads up... The current Enhancer doesn't handle http timeouts at all.

I noticed that tonight, when epguides was not responsive. So I'm trying to write something that will handle the timeouts, and even make them shorter...

[tvshowman]

Hi!

Can this add episode numbers to the title to work with the moviewiz auto search plugin?

Cheers

[zehd]

Hi!

Can this add episode numbers to the title to work with the moviewiz auto search plugin?

Cheers

I will have to chat with Javawiz. I can't see how anyone would want episode information in the title. The title is used for the folder that GB-PVR groups episodes together. All Simpsons will be in one folder, etc... Adding episode specific information to the title would be like creating completely different shows...

[zehd]

Hi,
I am using Vista Ultimate 64. It loaded the xml file when I started the program. I selected my configuration and clicked "commit changes" then click on go I get a "run-time error "9"" "subscript out of range"

I also clicked on "test for DTD" and this seem to run for a wile then it seemed to hang.

Thnaks

I got your file. 167000 records !. Loaded fine, and processed OK. I don't know why you're having that problem. But It seems that you're having quite a few issues.

Maybe it's something that you configured. Send me your UltraXMLTV_RegSettings.txt and I'll see what you selected and maybe see if it's something you shouldn't have done...

It really sounds though, that it might be time getting the computer fixed up. If MCE won't load properly, and the Downloader won't work, then the MCE2XML downloader/converter (it's not a scraper) may not be the right choice for you... And that means, UltraXMLTV is the least of your problems...

[zehd]

You've given me a taste of perfectly formated season/episode EPG information and I want more!

Just wanted to say, that I looked at my code today. I wanted to officially tell you that your request for ALL Episode information to be downloaded has been placed way way back on a dusty shelf. Maybe, someday, I'll look into it...

I will be adjusting the code to get Epguides data even if TVdb.com isn't available, as has been suggested. And I'll be adding the new actions for the other data fields... (still don't know about ep info in a title, as has been suggested)

But I will be concentrating on getting the Manager released for the next couple of weeks...

Sorry...

[gnutech]

Just wanted to say, that I looked at my code today. I wanted to officially tell you that your request for ALL Episode information to be downloaded has been placed way way back on a dusty shelf. Maybe, someday, I'll look into it...

I'm sorry to hear you're placing my feature request for season/episode information of all series EPG "...way way back on a dusty shelf." It's all about priorities and I can understand if that feature isn't very high on the list. I'm curious... Is it because of the way your code is presently written? Would it require a major rewrite? Or is it because you just need to concentrate on other things? Would it help to move this feature request up the list if there was more interest in it?

I will be adjusting the code to get Epguides data even if TVdb.com isn't available, as has been suggested. And I'll be adding the new actions for the other data fields... (still don't know about ep info in a title, as has been suggested)

Thanks... Greatly appreciate you adding the additional actions to the requested fields. I'm not sure why there would be a need for the ep info in the title, either. Why not just make everything prependable to the sub-title?

But I will be concentrating on getting the Manager released for the next couple of weeks...

Don't sweat it, man. I appreciate your efforts. I look forward to your next release of the Manager.

Regards,


Gary

[zehd]

I'm curious... Is it because of the way your code is presently written? Would it require a major rewrite? Or is it because you just need to concentrate on other things?

A little of everything... As I'm sure it will take all night to download the hundreds and hundreds of shows data, I'm sure few people would have the patience, even if they were interested in the outcome...

I looked at the code, and I think that I would have to change the way I did things. But then when I set it up to go for epguides, even if tvdb isn't available, I'll look closer...

But mostly, I believe there are many, many lurkers out there that are wanting to use the enhancer and xmltv but they can't get it working, or keep breaking their system, or are afraid of batch files and such. So my goal with the UltraXMLTV Manager is to make it easy and painless. (And reversible!)

[jgwallace3]

But mostly, I believe there are many, many lurkers out there that are wanting to use the enhancer ...

FWIW, the enhancer looked a bit overwhelming to me at first, but after reading the available docs a few times and then just using it, I'm much more comfortable with it. It's a great improvement over the I-XMLTV process!