More than 256 Chars in EPG Desc.?

[dazzyb2k3]

I'm suspecting the answer to this is no but thought i'd ask just in case

Here in the UK we get a pretty comprehensive XMLTV program description which means the program info gets 'chopped off' half way through. I was wondering if there is a way to increase the 256 limit so we can see all the program details?

[Hebus]

same problem here in belgium. :o

[sub]

Sorry, no can do at this stage.

[Hebus]

alrdy got a fix for this one ?

[sub]

No - none of the EPG descriptions are longer than 256 characters here, so its not made it very far up the priority list.

[bgowland]

I've often thought that a possible work-around would be for someone to write an alternative TV guide plugin that read info directly from the EPG source (in my case an XML file) either in real-time or by maintaining its own DB of some sort.

Cheers,
Brian

[kandersen]

just wanted to say that i'd love to see this feature as well

[alibert]

Maybe something like this:



long description, but it's possible to scroll...



and so on.

It's already working fine here, but I needed to change the database to expand the descriptions and add a column for the image url. As a result, the database grows, which slows down some things in gbpvr.

No - none of the EPG descriptions are longer than 256 characters here, so its not made it very far up the priority list.

My xmltv source often contains more than 1000 chars.

-alibert