EPG missing sub-title for movies

[dazed]

Can see in the db it doesn't add the sub-title for movies.





Data from schedulesdirect shows this

Code:

<programme channel="guide2go.49611.schedulesdirect.org" start="20200513213000 +0000" stop="20200513233000 +0000">
    <title lang="en">The 'Burbs</title>
    <sub-title lang="en-GB">A man and some neighbours try to prove their theory that a new family are part of a murderous cult.</sub-title>
    <desc lang="en-GB">An overstressed husband becomes obsessed with finding out the secret of his mysterious new neighbours. Concocting a series of increasingly outlandish schemes to discover the truth about the weird sounds he hears coming from the basement next door, the man settles on the theory that the family are a front for a cannibalistic cult.</desc>
    <category lang="en">Comedy</category>
    <episode-num system="dd_progid">MV00286782.0000</episode-num>
    <icon src="https://schedulesdirect-api20141201.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/assets/p11474_v_h10_aa.jpg" height="1080" width="1920"></icon>
    <video>
      <quality>hdtv</quality>
    </video>
    <audio></audio>
    <previously-shown start=""></previously-shown>
  </programme>

Quote from the guy at guide2go who fixed this on github

That makes sense. There are three key words in SD that are evaluated.

• EpisodeTitle (Used for the SubTitle)
  
• Description100 (Not used)
  
• Description1000 (Used for the Description)
  

I looked at the code from the old version, where Description100 was used for the subtitle if there was no EpisodeTitle.

[mvallevand]

Movies shouldn't have series subtitles. Even in your example that is just a short plot.

Martin

[dazed]

tvheadend adds this

It's useful for short description


It can then be pulled by the likes of Kodi when displaying PVR info

[mvallevand]

I understand there is support for short and long description but just because someone creates custom xml from SD and hacks it into the sub-title doesn't make it right.

You are better off starting a wishlist for the short and long descriptions (which will also require and API change for Kodi)

Martin

[dazed]

just because someone creates custom xml from SD and hacks it into the sub-title doesn't make it right.

Nobody is hacking anything the data is provided by SD, NPVR just isn't requesting it

[mvallevand]

The hack is putting description100 into subtitle and not into a separate short description field. Kodi and TVH support both.

Martin

[sub]

Yeah, I don't know about that one. That clearly doesn't look like a subtitle, so I'm not sure it makes sense having it in the subtitle. It wouldn't display nicely in NextPVR, which is expecting something much shorter.

That said, it looks like it should load it. If you want to supply the xmltv file, I'll check why it's not loading.

[sub]

or are you saying you're using Schedules Direct? and just supplying the xmltv snippet to show what should be there?

[mvallevand]

The SD JSON API has this

Code:

{
    "SH000000060000": {
        "code": 0,
        "description100": "A cafe owner attempts to repatriate
escapees during World War II.",
        "description1000": "A French cafe owner tries to ride out
World War II. Caught between the Gestapo and the Resistance and forced
into working with both, René also struggles to hide evidence of his
affairs with the waitresses from his wife, who, though she can't carry
a tune, frequently performs as a singer in the cafe."
    },
    "SH000186930000": {
        "code": 0,
        "description100": "Homer and Marge Simpson raise Bart, Lisa
and baby Maggie.",
        "description1000": "This long-running animated comedy focuses
on the eponymous family in the town of Springfield in an unnamed U.S.
state. The head of the Simpson family, Homer, is not a typical family
man. A nuclear-plant employee, he does his best to lead his family but
often finds that they are leading him. The family includes loving,
blue-haired matriarch Marge, troublemaking son Bart, overachieving
daughter Lisa and baby Maggie. Other Springfield residents include the
family's religious neighbor, Ned Flanders, family physician Dr.
Hibbert, Moe the bartender and police chief Clancy Wiggum."
    }
}

My assumption is NextPVR only support the long description1000. There is a place for having a short description but 100 characters are going to flood most sub title picklists

Martin

[dazed]

Schedules Direct supplies a sub-title field for movies but you don't request when getting the EPG data