Episode counts in EPG

[ingesol]

Hi, thanks for an excellent product!!

I have a problem with my Norwegian EPG, imported with XMLTV. Shows are listed in XML like this:

Home and away (34)
Friends (14)

...where the numbers inside the paranthesis are episode counters. Obviously, this crashes the "record season" feature. When I try to record a season of Friends (14), it records only one show, because the next show is named Friends (15).

The obvious solution for this is for me to use a text editor, or write an algorithm, that replaces all (....) with a blank string. I was just wondering if this is a common problem for other users of GBPVR? Is it a possible feature of the software, or is the problem too obscure?

One possibility would be to ease up on the season feature, and record all shows that has a name that is 90% equal to the name of the first show selected? This is hardly good enough for the show name "friends", though...

[cwills]

I'm not positive as I've never tried this parameter, but the XRecord plugin has a Record By Title Partial parameter when you schedule a recording. That may work with just "Friends".

[ingesol]

Thanks for the tip!

Does anyone else know anything more about this?

I will explore this a bit more when I get the chance to install plugins, but does this mean that extra input fields are added in the scheduling screen when I install the XRecord plugin?

[stefan]

Quote[/b] (ingesol @ Mar. 16 2005,23:38)]Thanks for the tip!

Does anyone else know anything more about this?

I will explore this a bit more when I get the chance to install plugins, but does this mean that extra input fields are added in the scheduling screen when I install the XRecord plugin?

You can also try using o2grabber. Chances are they use the same sources as xmltv does, but it's worth a shot. Easy to setup and use.

[ingesol]

Hi, thanks, but I'm already using o2grabber

I hope I will find a plugin that works for this, maybe I'll even write my own! The record season feature is very important to me.

[KingArgyle]

Check out the most current version of CDK Scheduler along with XRecord and you should be able to get what you want. Something like setting up a Title Search, that is time restricted to a particular day of week and time range should allow you to narrow down to specific shows like Friends.

Check the CDK Scheduler Example thread for some, well, examples on how this might be done.

XRecord provides a front end interface to CDK Scheduler, but CDK Scheduler doesn't require the use of XRecord to schedule programs, it just makes it a bit easier.

[ingesol]

Excellent, thanks! Will try this.

[jasjol]

I guess I am lucky

I too had the similar problem like first program: 24 in EPG and the rest just 24 - and for some other title 1, title 2 etc.

But in Sweden some guys have set up a XMLTV database which get fed with data they get from the channel companys.

They handle this issue in their database.

I don't know if someone has done the same in Norway though.

[ingesol]

I have solved this problem for myself now by using apache ant to replace all occurrences of (xxx) to avoid getting additional information in the show title. Works great.

[ingesol]

All you need to do is install apache ant, and put the ant bin-directory in your path. Then put a build.xml file with contents like this in the directory of your epg.xml, and type ant.


<?xml version="1.0"?>

<project name="tv" default="replace" basedir=".">

<target name="replace">
<replaceregexp match="[(].*[)]" replace="" file="${basedir}/test.xml" flags="-g"/>

</target>

</project>