Changing a program title to trigger a recurring recording

[erik]

Some broadcasts have as a title the series name followed by a ':' and then an episode name. Often the Subtitle is empty.
It would be possible to write a simple postepgupdate program that scans the programme list for programs with a title that matches '%:%' and then move the episode part to the subtitle.
By doing so it should be possible to use a recurring recording setting to record these series. One can do the same with some of the plugins but remember I only use webadmin to manage my recordings.
Before I actually start to write the code I have two questions:

1) I can imagine you can do the same with a small xsl script rewriting the xmltv.xml executed by saxon. Anyone out there that could help me how to write the rewrite rule that rewrites
<title>Cinema3:Tomb Raiders</title>
<sub-title>The first episode</sub-title>
into
<title>Cinema3</title>
<sub-title>Tomb Raiders:The first episode</sub-title>

2) When are the recording rules checked? At regular intervals? Triggered by an update? How to ensure the new name will be found by the recurring recording rule?

[sub]

When are the recording rules checked?

Immediately after an EPG update. Just proir to PostUpdateEPG.bat being called.

[KingArgyle]

Erik:

If you use CDK Scheduler, you can schedule based on keyword searches. You can narrow down to just the Title if you want, which would let you schedule re-occuring recordings, without having to modify the XML file. XRecord currently uses the CDK Scheduler API to manage the PriorityRecordings.xml file, a Web Admin interface could be written to manage that file as well using the same API.

[erik]

I do use use CDK Scheduler with keyword based search but editing the XML file is a nuicance.

a Web Admin interface could be written to manage that file as well using the same API.

That would be very nice.

[Ton]

I have just finished a "EPG Cleanup" tool that allows parsing and executing regular expressions into the EPG file (for cleaning up this exact issue and the overlapping programs left in the XMLTV file).

It can be configured using an XML-file, and seems to work like a charm...

I'm running the final test tonight, and I'll post (if succesfull) the program and code somewhere tomorrow...

//Ton

[Ton]

Hello all,

I ran the test (successfull) and here is the tool. I haven't tried all possible configurations, and the code is still a little "rough" (It's my first c# program, but I'm coming from a Java / Visual C(++) / VB 6.0 background, so it was really easy to pick up).

I'm still not happy with the console output-messages, but I'll see if I have some time over the Christmas-holidays to fix it....

Regards,

//Ton

[erik]

Seems to work!
I will try some more renaming and feedback in case of problems!
Thanks!

[erik]

Works very good!

I created a general rewrite rule for the Title with included sub title

Code:

<Filter name="Fix title and subtitle">
      <Type>and</Type>
      <Match>
         <Name>title</Name>
         <Expression>^.*:</Expression>
      </Match>
      <Action type="replace">
         <Destination>sub-title</Destination>
         <Source>title</Source>
         <FindExpression>^.*:\s?</FindExpression>
         <ReplaceExpression></ReplaceExpression>
      </Action>
      <Action type="replace">
         <Destination>title</Destination>
         <Source>title</Source>
         <FindExpression>:.*\s?</FindExpression>
         <ReplaceExpression></ReplaceExpression>
      </Action>
   </Filter>

This works if there is no existing subtitle (almost always the case).
What to do if the subtitle is already there and you want to concatenate the part after the ':' from the title with the already existing subtitle.
Example
Title: Natuur op 4: Jacques Cousteau
Subtitle: Ongelooflijke opmars van de spinkreeft

[Ton]

Okay, did some code-cleanup (and made the console-message a little nicer).

I planned to implement rules for "appending" to an existing field, and to have the matched do not just an "and" but also an "or", but I haven't been able to get round to it....

Here's the latest version...

[Ton]

Hello,

I have just finished the last items on my "todo" list:

- Use of both "and" and "or" matches (together)
- Because of your suggestion: added an option to not only replace the current field, but also to: "insertbefore" or "insertafter".

I have posted the latest version of EPGFilter in the "Community Announcements" forum....

//Ton