RT_FilmFix v1.0 - temporary fix up for Radio Times XMLTV users

[cue1boy]

New Here so please be gentle.
Will this help with colour coding in Windows 7 Media Center

[cue1boy]

Is it possible to change the categories to Movie as to allow the colour coding to work on Windows 7 Media Center.

[martint123]

I doubt it. This is designed to read an XML EPG file from something like the RadioTimes and tweak it to include 'file' in the title and produce a new file.
The RadioTimes used to do this, but it went away.

I think Media Centre uses its own built-in EPG??

[bgowland]

New Here so please be gentle.
Will this help with colour coding in Windows 7 Media Center

Sorry, I don't know anything about any of the MCE versions of Windows.

As martint123 says, the utility was designed to compensate for a change in EPG data grabbed from the Radio Times website. Radio Times handed over the responsibility of generating EPG data to another company and where previously the EPG data would contain a <category>Film</category> element in the XML data, this was replaced to reflect the genre of films, e.g., <category>Drama</category> and this messed up the way NextPVR worked for it's genre colour coding.

If you are somehow importing XMLTV data from the Radio Times site then I may be able to make an adjustment but can't promise a time-frame as I'm just about to move house and things are a bit frantic at the moment.

Cheers,
Brian

[cue1boy]

Thanks for the swift replies.
Windows 7 Media Center uses colour coding based on categories such as Kids,Movie,News,Sport etc.
I import my own data from the UKRT using XMLTV GUI and BSEPG to do the import.
Because the movies are not categorised as Movie colour coding does not work for this category.
Cheers in advance.

[martint123]

I'd give it a try - it replaces the category tag with 'film' for things that are tagged with "types of film" now.
If you really need "movie" then a search & replace should work.

[cue1boy]

If you really need "movie" then a search & replace should work.

Please explain what file i need to change, Thanks.

[bgowland]

If you really need "movie" then a search & replace should work.

Please explain what file i need to change, Thanks.

After you run the utility you'd need to open whatever the xmltv file is created by XMLTV GUI (usually data.xml) with something like Wordpad or Notepad++ (my choice) and search on <category>Film</category> and replace with <category>Movie</category>.

I've basically wound down any software development for the moment but should be up and running again (hopefully) soon. Bump this thread next week and I'll put some more options into the RT_FilmFix utility.

Cheers,
Brian

[cue1boy]

Brilliant, Thanks a bunch, unfortunately this is what i get when processing'

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\M Frankland>"C:\Program Files\XMLTV GUI\RT_FilmFix.bat"

C:\Users\M Frankland>cmd /C "C:\Program Files\XMLTV GUI\XmltvGUI.exe /grab
'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\M Frankland>"C:\Program Files\XMLTV GUI\RT_FilmFix.exe" "C:\Program Fil
es\XMLTV GUI" "C:\Program Files\XMLTV GUI\settings"
Processing channel cache files...
Unable to find cache file: c:\program files\xmltv gui\cache\uk_rt\1802 - skippin
g...
Writing film file...
Backing up xmltv data file...
RewriteCategories() general exception: at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32
errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.File.InternalCopy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Bo
olean overwrite)
at System.IO.File.Copy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Boolean ov
erwrite)
at RT_FilmFix.Program.RewriteCategories() in C:\Documents and Settings\gbpvr\
My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\RT_FilmFix\Program.cs:line 214

[bgowland]

In your batch file you've missed a closing quote after XmltvGUI.exe...

Code:

C:\Users\M Frankland>cmd /C "C:\Program Files\XMLTV GUI\XmltvGUI.exe /grab