2004-06-29, 07:35 PM
Hi Sub,
I've been playing with writing a uk tv listings grabber using the MSN uk website and outputting the data in xmltv format. Whilst doing this it has raised the question of how GBPVR handles changes to programme timings its already imported. From what I've seen it doesn't and to solve this you'd have to delete the current entries and import the latest xmltv data file. I think I remember seeing on a previous posting where you said that the record flags would be deleted by doing that.
Now I'm not using a tv tuner card (waiting for DVB support :-)) so I'm ok for the moment. But how could this be handled? As far as I can see either the xmltv input would have to have unique ID's assigned to each programme and thus the data generator would have handled calculating the changes. Then GBPVR can determine what has changed and remove\reassign the record flags accordingly during the latest import. Or GBPVR could do it all based on the standard xmltv\other source input ;-)
I guess in either case a handy function would be to have an "inbox" or "messages" facility in which GBPVR could let the user know that listings changes have been made and to review them to check their programmes are still going to record.
Of course I could be completely wrong and updates are handled perfectly !
Cheers
Rob
I've been playing with writing a uk tv listings grabber using the MSN uk website and outputting the data in xmltv format. Whilst doing this it has raised the question of how GBPVR handles changes to programme timings its already imported. From what I've seen it doesn't and to solve this you'd have to delete the current entries and import the latest xmltv data file. I think I remember seeing on a previous posting where you said that the record flags would be deleted by doing that.
Now I'm not using a tv tuner card (waiting for DVB support :-)) so I'm ok for the moment. But how could this be handled? As far as I can see either the xmltv input would have to have unique ID's assigned to each programme and thus the data generator would have handled calculating the changes. Then GBPVR can determine what has changed and remove\reassign the record flags accordingly during the latest import. Or GBPVR could do it all based on the standard xmltv\other source input ;-)
I guess in either case a handy function would be to have an "inbox" or "messages" facility in which GBPVR could let the user know that listings changes have been made and to review them to check their programmes are still going to record.
Of course I could be completely wrong and updates are handled perfectly !
Cheers
Rob