Notice: UltraXMLTV and theTVdb.com

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Note: There was a critical error with ‘theTVdb.com’ where UltraXMLTV Enhancer was not able to get any info at all from their server.

This change happened around September 8, 2008.

Your TV listings may be doomed to failure in the coming week if you have been using UltraXMLTV Enhancer **

Any version of the Enhancer, 1.2.100 or higher will work with the new TVdb server.

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/UltraXMLTV

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** I may have been a tad dramatic but this is what is likely to happen:

Many people are using UltraXMLTV for the feature to add a New Show indicator (eg: "Boston Legal * ) This helps GB-PVR to know to only record new shows, and not repeats.

With UltraXMLTV receiving 'non-data' from the turned off server, it thinks no news is good news and continues to process your xmltv file, but without most enhancements. GB-PVR would not know to record new shows, and may very well skip over them.

That would definitely kill the WAF, and that's why I got dramatic...:p

But it's all good now... Have fun!

PS: When the new UltraXMLTV runs the first time, it will purge your xml cache. Depending on the size it can take a few extra seconds where the program appears to hang. Please have patience

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Also it seems that the new TVdb.com server is a tad unstable (currently?). That means I'm going to have to add some code that will handle connection refusal errors better.

Currently, UltraXMLTV seems to hang for 60 secs when it gets a refusal, but if the server is actually done, forget about it!!!

If you find that eppguides and tvdb are messing up, you can now get your New Show indicators without having any server access, simply by disabling 'Ask TVdb' and 'Ask EpGuides' in the Config Episodes.

When I get the 'refusal' errror under control, I will be adding server/mirror switching (when tvdb mirrors become available) and a temporary disabling of Season/Episode lookup if server is slow/not responsive..

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The newest version has been tweaked to handle http errors and give up temporarily if the server appears to be acting up. Therefore, one still has at least the New Show Markers and other enhancements, and just miss the Season and Episode information

1.2.116

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Found a few more bugs and it seems rock steady...

1.2.121