SchedulesDirect XML

[mvallevand]

Sub, I am thinking of writing a program to post-process XMLTV files for genre specific information and was wondering how schedulesdirect.xml is created. I see in CHANNEL in my epg_mapping field

<source>XMLTV</source>
<file>C:\epg\analog.xml</file>

What will I see for SD and is this linked at all to the schedulesdirect.xml file? Finally if SD is called multiple times for multiple tuners will there be multiple schedulesdirect.xml files with a different name?

Thanks.

Martin

[sub]

A schedules direct entry would typically look like this:

Code:

<epg>
    <source>Schedules Direct</source>
    <station>17098</station>
</epg>

The app normally wouldnt write the schedules direct listings to disk. Instead it just downloads it and processes it in memory. You can can force it to write the xml to data by setting <DumpSchedulesDirectData> to true in config.xml, then it'll create sd.xml. There is also a schedulesdirect.xml file, but this is not the listings, but rather a cache xml from the original SD channel setup, used for channel lineup info.

[mvallevand]

Thanks Is there is only one SD download for all tuners saved to sd.xml?

Martin

[sub]

yes.

[mvallevand]

Thanks again.

Martin