Issues with file format S01E01

[Graham]

Do you know others xmltv source for french TV ? I often see about "sheduled direct" but is it restricted to some country only ?

http://www.schedulesdirect.org/regions

[mvallevand]

Seems to be a consistent scraping problem for sub to look at. How about a shows like

La crim'
Hell on Wheels
Marlon

They might parse correctly.

Martin

[nonob]

Hi,

I can't found these shows. I think i don't have these channels.

I only have these ones :

[ATTACH=CONFIG]47529[/ATTACH]

Canal+ : only some periods are uncrypted.

If you can, give me a show from these channels so i can test a record and check if they are well named

[BrettB]

http://www.schedulesdirect.org/regions

Since France is one of the countries supported by Schedules Direct, I would really encourage you to sign up for a trial and see how it works for you. The better quality data (including season/episode information, premiere flags, unique episode id [used for preventing recording duplicates], logos and show art) all make SD worth the small subscription cost.

You could even sign up for the trial, setup your lineup, and then just change one of channels with your problem shows to use SD rather than your XMLTV listings to test if it will fix your problem.

[sub]

I think there are some conditions were NextPVR will extract from the metadata too. Can you highlight a show that is wrong. I know you mentionned L'amour est dans le pré and I think I can see what might happening.

Code:

<programme start="20190909210500 +0200" stop="20190909220000 +0200" showview="" channel="C118.api.telerama.fr">
    <title>L'amour est dans le pré</title>
    <sub-title>Episode 5</sub-title>
    <desc lang="fr">Saison : 14 - Quelques semaines après avoir décacheté leurs courriers tant attendus, les célibataires découvrent, lors d'un entretien d'une dizaine de minutes, celles et ceux qui leur ont écrit. Jean-Michel, un peu intimidé, se prépare à vivre son premier rendez-vous amoureux depuis près de quarante ans.</desc>
    <credits>
      <presenter>Karine Le Marchand</presenter>
    </credits>
    <category lang="fr">téléréalité</category>
    <length units="minutes">55</length>
    <icon src="https://television.telerama.fr/sites/tr_master/files/sheet_media/media/65a98a76-bd53-40d8-a724-82a1679f9d44.jpg" />
    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">13..</episode-num>
    <video>
      <aspect>16:9</aspect>
      <quality>HDTV</quality>
    </video>
    <premiere />
    <rating system="CSA">
      <value>Tout public</value>
    </rating>
  </programme>

Martin

Seems to be a consistent scraping problem for sub to look at.

It's not scaping the season/episode numbers from the description or anything like that. It's simply using the <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">13..</episode-num> (which is zero based), and it's saying it's season 14, the episode number isn't supplied, so the default is 1.

I'll add some logic to the next build to ignore the season number unless the episode number is also supplied.

[mvallevand]

I thought the .. defaulting to 1 was wrong by the spec so I meant scraping xmltv_ns format. Glad you found it.

Martin

[nonob]

Hi

Since France is one of the countries supported by Schedules Direct, I would really encourage you to sign up for a trial and see how it works for you. The better quality data (including season/episode information, premiere flags, unique episode id [used for preventing recording duplicates], logos and show art) all make SD worth the small subscription cost.

You could even sign up for the trial, setup your lineup, and then just change one of channels with your problem shows to use SD rather than your XMLTV listings to test if it will fix your problem.

I don't use a lot the EPG. I essentially use recording rules to record the same shows over years. I'm not ready (for the moment) to spend money for an alternative guide, even if it seems to be a good service.

It's not scaping the season/episode numbers from the description or anything like that. It's simply using the <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">13..</episode-num> (which is zero based), and it's saying it's season 14, the episode number isn't supplied, so the default is 1.

I'll add some logic to the next build to ignore the season number unless the episode number is also supplied.

Great, thanks

I think you will fix this bug in v5... Is there anything i could do myself to fix or disable this scraping v4 ?

Can you confirm that this issue isn't related to this setting, which i already unchecked :

[ATTACH=CONFIG]47504[/ATTACH]

[mvallevand]

Can you confirm that this issue isn't related to this setting, which i already unchecked :

It is only loosely related, once sub removes the S/E information they can't be renamed with the S/E information

You can preprocess the xmltv format to remove <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">13..</episode-num> markup if you know things like xslt transformations. And if you really know what your are doing it looks like there is enough information in the subtitle to create the proper episode information from the sub-title <sub-title>Episode 5</sub-title> and create the proper entry <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">13.4.</episode-num>

Martin

[nonob]

Hi

I don't know anything about xslt transformations but i found another solution to resolve my issue :

With your help i understood that episode number was missing in my xmltv file. So i searched a new one and checked this information : it is present for some programs like "L'amour est dans le pré" (for instance : <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">13.7</episode-num> , and for others ("On n'est pas couché") it isn't but in this case there isn't at all the line <episode-num system="xmltv_ns"> , so i think NextPVR will not do anything with these ones.

I modified my updateEPG.bat file to download the new file then i force an EPG update in NextPVR settings. To be continued...

Thanks

[nonob]

Hi,

Yesterday there was firsts recordings with my new epg xml file which contains good "episode-num system" info.

I'm surprised because these new recordings are again bad named :





To be sure, i checked my xml file again and it seems good :

Code:

</programme>
<programme start="20190912210500 +0200" stop="20190912232000 +0200" channel="M6.fr">
    <title lang="fr">Pékin Express : la route des 50 volcans</title>
    <sub-title lang="fr">La demi-finale</sub-title>
    <desc lang="fr">Saison 12 Episode 9 : La demi-finale
L'heure de la demi-finale a sonné ! Les trois équipes encore en lice se disputeront 3 amulettes de 10 000 euros. Leur mission : éviter de tirer l'une des 3 enveloppes noires, synonymes d'une potentielle élimination, en évitant la dernière place aux épreuves. Côté paysages, les candidats vont poursuivre leur découverte de la Colombie à travers trois sprints haletants. C'est à Barichara, dans l'un des plus beaux villages de Colombie, qu'ils vont participer à une terrible course de «garçons de café». Les moins agiles pourront se rattraper avec une épreuve plus sportive en eaux vives, tandis que les plus logiques auront leur chance à pédalo avec une dernier défi logique</desc>
    <category lang="fr">Jeu</category>
    <icon src="https://static.playmedia-cdn.net/img/tv_programs/665501-666000/665878_xlarge.jpg" />
    <year>2019</year>
    <rating system="csa">
      <value>TP</value>
    </rating>
    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">11.8.</episode-num>
</programme>
<programme start="20190912232000 +0200" stop="20190913002500 +0200" channel="M6.fr">
    <title lang="fr">Pékin Express : itinéraire bis</title>
    <desc lang="fr">Saison 1 Episode 9
Mehdi et Hoang poursuivent leur découverte de la Colombie à travers des défis. Pour sa première mission, le binôme se rend dans la région de San Gil, la Mecque des sports extrêmes dans le pays, pour y braver la peur du vide et descendre en rappel une cascade de 120 mètres, nichée au coeur de la forêt tropicale. Adrénaline et sensations fortes garanties ! Après ce défi sportif de haute voltige, Mehdi et Hoang découvrent une tradition culinaire colombienne aussi surprenante qu'insolite, puisque dans le village de Barichari, les villageois consomment des fourmis géantes grillées depuis plus de 500 ans : elles sont en effet réputées pour leurs propriétés aphrodisiaques et curatives</desc>
    <category lang="fr">Jeu</category>
    <icon src="https://static.playmedia-cdn.net/img/tv_programs/664001-664500/664154_xlarge.jpg" />
    <year>2019</year>
    <rating system="csa">
      <value>TP</value>
    </rating>
    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">0.8.</episode-num>
</programme>

Do you know what is happening ? Maybe be the old xml file data (with bad episode num) is always used by NPVR ?

Thanks