epg xml file

[Cape-City]

hi,

maybe someone can have a look at my tvguide.xml file. when i open it with
a text editor everything seems to be ok, but when open it in gbpvr the most
programs are not at the correct place ...

have a look at the program rtl 2 at 20:15 ...

greetz
cc

[betlit]

hmm...i have no problem importing the xml-file here on my test-installation... everything looks fine in the tv guide.

what do you mean by 'not in the correct place'?
does the time not match or are programs assigned to the 'wrong' channel?

[Cape-City]

At the channel rtl 2 it startet at

20:15 - 00:55 Pakt der Wölfe
22:05 - 23:05 Ärger im Revier
22:15 - 00:10 Rats
23:00 - 01:50 Pakt der Wölfe
23:05 - 00:30 Akte Mord
00:10 - 02:15 Arachnophobia
...

In the XML File everything seems to be correct ... I also have no problems to import it
to gb-pvr, but gb-pvr didnt show it as it is in the xml file ....

It should be

<programme start="20050909201500" channel="rtl2.de">
<title>Pakt der Wölfe</title>
<category>Spielfilm/Action</category>
</programme>
<programme start="20050910005500" channel="rtl2.de">
<title>RTL II Kino-Tipp</title>
<category>Magazin/Musik/Konzerte</category>
</programme>
<programme start="20050910021000" channel="rtl2.de">
<title>Kill Me Again - Töten Sie mich</title>
<category>Spielfilm/Thriller</category>
</programme>
<programme start="20050910024000" channel="rtl2.de">
<title>Schnulleralarm</title>
</programme>

[betlit]

ah. there's the problem (sorry, didn't notice the first time): your xmltv-file lacks the 'stop'-time of the show.

e.g.:
<programme start="20050909201500 +0200" stop="20050909230000 +0200" channel="rtl2.de">

if this is missing, gbpvr has to assume the end time is the start time of the _next_ program in the _file_. in this case RTL II Kino-Tipp starting at 0:55

may i ask, what your xmltv-source is?

[Cape-City]

i'm using the program webepg to get the epg data. it just grabbs the tvinfo.de site
to get the infomation.

but where did the other programms come from, which are overlaying the real ones ?

[betlit]

uhm.. can't tell you that... rats is sheduled on september 11th and akte mord on 15th/16th. :confused:

but i would suggest you, to switch to http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltv/

it contains a grabber for german television, which get the data from tvtoday.de. i used it myself until a grabber for switzerland was made. i never had problems with it.

of course you would have to reconfig your capture-sources, because the channel-ids are different. you can edit the gbpvr.mdb file and change the ids (after you emptied the epg), but messing arround with the db is a bad idea unless you _really_ know what you are doing.

[Cape-City]

Do U know this tool ?

http://nxtvepg.sourceforge.net/index-de.html

With this it should be able to get the epg directly from the dvb-t stream,
i know it for a long time, but now dvb-t should work too ... in the past only
analog ...

[dottore]

STOP!

nxtvepg doesn't retrieve the data from dvb-t but from the analog tv. you can use this program with a few cards (not the hardware-encoder-cards though), it parses the data and writes xmltv-files.

has nothing to do with dvb-t. when it comes to dvb there are other programs which extract the epg-data from the mpeg2-stream.

[betlit]

nope, never used it.
but IIRC, with nexTView, you 'only' get the EPG-Data of a few (3?) days ahead.

xmltv tv_grab_de_tvtoday allows you to get EPG data for the next 14 days.

[Cape-City]

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o.k. the thing nxtvepg first done is crashing the pc
But they say it should work with dvb ...

... seems to that it dont work with my dvb-t card - crashed again

What kind of other programs do u mean, which can grab the epg stream
directly from dvb-t ?

why only 3 days ? my technisat receiver gets 7 days epg, which is enough
for me, i think ...


I have a TwinHan DVB-T card which has no hardware decoder ...

the xmltv tool gives up with an error messages an grabbs no data :

Code:

C:\Downloads\dvb-t\xmltv-0.5.40b-win32\xmltv-0.5.40a-win32>xmltv tv_grab_de_tvto
day --days 2 --output tvguide.xml
Timezone is +0200
adding '--share=C:/Downloads/dvb-t/xmltv-0.5.40b-win32/xmltv-0.5.40a-win32/share
/xmltv'
using config filename ./.xmltv/tv_grab_de_tvtoday.conf
getting list of channels: ##################################################
grabbing: Can't call method "look_down" on an undefined value at /PerlApp/grab/d
e_tvtoday/tv_grab_de_tvtoday line 459.

First i startet it with the --configure parameter and told him which channels i have
and which not ...

cc