Media Browser Integration

[mvallevand]

Yes that's a problem. But i sens it in English to the api and that's not a problem.. I don't get any séries timer now in mb

What does public/DetailsRecurrService/oid give you back on one of your recurring recordings?

Martin

[Svekke]

Hmm, it's weird. For some reason i get now the english version back. I played a little bit with region. But that didn't work. Removed it again and now it's ok...
Weird stuff.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Hmm, it's weird. For some reason i get now the english version back. I played a little bit with region. But that didn't work. Removed it again and now it's ok...
Weird stuff.

Thanks for letting us know.

[Svekke]

1) Is it possible to know if a channel is a "HD" channel with the API?
2) Is it possible to know if an epg is a serie of seperate episodes. Now we check the subtitle, but that's not Always correct. Any option to check that? So you can record it every day...

[sub]

1) Is it possible to know if a channel is a "HD" channel with the API?

I think you're using UJB's NEWA APIs, so using calls like /public/GuideService/Listing? Yes, it looks like it in can tell you if a show is HD. See the 'Quality' attribute below ('HDTV' in this case).

Code:

....snip...
"epgEvent": {
                "OID": 1202579,
                "UniqueId": "SH013762590000",
                "ChannelOid": 8836,
                "FormattedChannelNumber": "2.1",
                "ChannelName": "WCBSLD",
                "StartTime": "2015-08-19T21:00:00Z",
                "EndTime": "2015-08-19T22:00:00Z",
                "Title": "CBS 2 News at 5PM",
                "Subtitle": "",
                "Desc": "Kristine Johnson and Maurice DuBois.",
                "Rating": "TVPG",
                "Quality": "HDTV",
                "StarRating": "",
                "Aspect": "",
                "Audio": "",
                "Season": 0,
                "Episode": 0,
                "OriginalAirdate": "2011-01-11T00:00:00",
                "FanArt": "",
                "Genres": [
                  "News"
                ],
                "FirstRun": true,
                "HasSchedule": false,
                "ScheduleIsRecurring": false,
                "ScheduleHasConflict": false
              },
...snip...

2) Is it possible to know if an epg is a serie of seperate episodes. Now we check the subtitle, but that's not Always correct. Any option to check that? So you can record it every day...

You can't always tell. It depends on the EPG listing source they're using. You can tell for Schedules Direct users, and for a subset of XMLTV users, and not at all for DVB EPG users.

[mvallevand]

I think you're using UJB's NEWA APIs, so using calls like /public/GuideService/Listing? Yes, it looks like it in can tell you if a show is HD. See the 'quality' attribute below.

Not really. The guide data is not always dependable since almost all broadcasts now are HD or scaled HD even when they don't show HD. On top of that the analog source will show the guide data as HD even if the tuner is not capable of delivering HD.

Martin

[sub]

Not really. The guide data is not always dependable since almost all broadcasts now are HD or scaled HD even when they don't show HD. On top of that the analog source will show the guide data as HD even if the tuner is not capable of delivering HD.

I don't think it's worth worrying about the 'what ifs'. If they want to show some sort of 'HD' indicator icon in their guide, I think this is a quality of the data is good enough for that purpose. Sure, there can always be gotcha's, but the guide source is telling us it's HD and for most users it's probably right.

[mvallevand]

If it is meaningless eye candy I agree, if it is used for the transcoding decisions engine it would be a big mistake.

Martin

[sub]

I'm assuming it's just eye candy. If it was for the transcoder, they'd need more concrete details like resolutions, frame rates etc - "HD" wouldn't really tell them enough to do anything useful with the transcoder.

[Svekke]

It's indeed only to show if the channel is a HD channel or not. So if a show is not HD. The full channel is not in HD format.
It's maybe a good option to put this information on the channel itself.

So it depends on the source? I am using xml-tv. For some i have an episode available so i know it's a serie. But for some other not.
I use the same xml-tv with the argus client i wrote for mb3. And i have the parameter IsSeries available on that with just the same source...
So it's possible. :p