Xmltv.ch not completely processed, and no Artwork

[Bernard0105]

Hello,

This site is provided a useful guide for french TV :
https://xmltv.ch

It has a very good content description, that are correctly displayed as well as the scheduled time.

However it also includes Artwork, Category, Rating and Star notation, but none of those data are displayed in the nextPVR EPG / Guide page.
These data are also not available to Kodi.
Could it be possible to solve this ?

I joined one xmltv file, other samples can be downloaded from the above link.

Best regards,

[mvallevand]

I have been trying to research episode artwork for another project and I don't think sub ported the EPG episode icon "src" logic from v4 to v5.

From a Kodi perspective

- genres (categories) are supported but you will need to create a lookup table for your categories to the dvb standard. I can help you with this if you are interested. Sub has an option of loading free form to Kodi not sure if he does.

Sub hasn't added ratings to the Kodi XML API but other users have requested this.

If you want to get creative you can use this method to get the season and episode numbers to https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid546392 If you upload your npvr.db3 file on a cloud storage link I can help you there too.

Martin

[sub]

However it also includes Artwork, Category, Rating and Star notation, but none of those data are displayed in the nextPVR EPG / Guide page.

It does load the category, rating and star_rating. These are stored in the NextPVR database.

It does display the category in the web app. It also sends the category information to Kodi. As Martin mentioned above, Kodi does have some issues with what categories it can display.

It currently does nothing with the rating and star_rating. Most EPG sources don't have this info, and very few people have ever asked about these, so it hasn't really been a priority to show it anywhere.

Its not very common to have show artwork in xmltv files, but when it is present, it doesn't really cover the types of artwork NextPVR needs, so instead it typically goes looking for artwork from other sources on the internet.

[Bernard0105]

Thank you Martin for your complete answer.

My project is to replace WMC running on Win7 by KODI+NextPVR running on Win10.
Without the Star notation, nor the show Artwork this is a true regression regarding my existing WMC config.

End of Life of WMC with Win7 is an opportunity for nextPVR, and I am surely not the only one that have to migrate my HTPC to another mediacenter, specially with Live TV OTA.

If Sub could add those feature one day, i would publish an 'how-to' guide on some HTPC french blogs, that may help nextPVR to be more used in France.

I am interested to know how to implement the lookup table to match the categories from "xmltv.ch" to the dvb standard used by Kodi and next PVR.

[mvallevand]

I understand I believe another french user is still using v4 of NextPVR to get the artwork. Unfortunatly That is step backward too.

I wil add ratings to Kodi when sub passes the information.

I'd like to see your database before starting on the genres lookup.

Martin

[sub]

I wil add ratings to Kodi when sub passes the information.

It looks like it's already passing <rating> to kodi. It doesn't pass the star rating.

[Bernard0105]

It currently does nothing with the rating and star_rating. Most EPG sources don't have this info, and very few people have ever asked about these, so it hasn't really been a priority to show it anywhere.

Its not very common to have show artwork in xmltv files, but when it is present, it doesn't really cover the types of artwork NextPVR needs, so instead it typically goes looking for artwork from other sources on the internet.

Thank you Sub,

Looking for Artwork into international DB that are made mainly for english is not working very well for non english native people. I believe they are a lot of a people to be considered.
Currently I have no artwork at all in my guide, as if nextPVR was not fetching on internet, or not using the right language.

Star rating is a common way to help to choose a film. in France we can get it from the DVBT itself.

IMO, XMLTV sources like xmltv.ch that have the relevant links from the same source are a very good way to solve that issue, since the consistency is excellent between the show and the image.
What do you mean by "the types of artwork NextPVR needs" ?

[mvallevand]

NextPVR does support Schedules Direct which is a very good source of art for most countries and France is on the SD supported list.

Martin

[sub]

What do you mean by "the types of artwork NextPVR needs" ?

NextPVR typically downloads three types of artwork for each show.

Poster: which is a portrait style graphic
Landscape: which is a landscape style graph
Fanart: which is a large fullscreen graphic, intended to be used as a background

[sub]

For the next build I've added the star_rating to the information passed to kodi.