Blue Holes in TV Guide

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All's well this morning , my manual recording during the gap times worked fine and my EPG auto update last night has fixed the guide.

DavidJames : I have tried everything out there including (mediaportal,Mythtv) paid software(SageTV,Snapstream) and GBPVR works the best of them all. Not to mention the great support. I have left messages on other forums for days without a response , here you usually get help within minutes and some of that help is from the person who wrote the software!!

[dinki]

I think it’s time for a simple “v0.96.12 survival guide” thread, listing the patches and workarounds people know of, until the next version comes out.

As a gbpvr newbie, this would be most beneficial to me. I didn't even know that patches existed. Maybe have a list of them on the wiki?

[capone]

I dont do anything with daylight savings myself. I'd hate to get into those very complex rules. Instead I just ask Windows to convert the UTC times supplied by zap2it to a local time and it does the rest.

I realuized after it much to do w/ how things are in the EPG. The only part that would be GB related would be how it handles having no 2am once a year (or two 2am in the fall).

If is doesn't have extra logic for it (or isn't covered by existign logic), then it's just a non-US part of GB we accept as users of a more international program.

[Jim_]

As a gbpvr newbie, this would be most beneficial to me. I didn't even know that patches existed. Maybe have a list of them on the wiki?

I use GBPVR almost exclusively through my MPV and TV, these are the MPV related patches and changes I’m using.
I’m sure there are others, but these are the ones that helped the issues I was having.

Stop the recording service and install the MPV Reboot and FF/Skip patch.
Next, edit Config.xml to fix the commercial auto-skip problem.

If your GBPVR.MDB is getting large this utility will compress it.

If duplicate programs are being recorded, even when using zap2it and “avoid duplicates”.
RecTracker v3 will fix the problem.
Extract to your GBPVR folder and add these lines to the top of your PostProcessing.bat
RecTracker %1
RecTracker –purge

Open a command prompt, go to your GBPVR folder and type this command.
RecTracker –addignore TEST
If you don’t receive an error that some update needs to be installed, verify that “rectracker.mdb” has indeed been modified with the current date and time.

The free utility MDB Viewer Plus will allow you to view, add & remove show from the RecTracker database.


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Tipstir,
Using GBPVR’s native Zap2It support, or switching to XMLTV.
Honestly, if complete epg reload is selected, there’s very little difference between the two. The blue bars the day before the time change was the only issue I’ve had when using complete reload.

XMLTV worked differently during the time change, it worked properly, displaying ½ hour shows as 1 ½ hour shows in the guide.
I recorded through the time change with no problems what so ever.

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I-xmltv, Incremental xmltv thread.
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CleanXMLTV utility, converts UTC to -0000 for GBPVR. (CleanXMLTV INPUTFILE --output OUTPUTFILE)

Jim

[Jim_]

Hey Jim,

Can you post the steps you did to get the XMLTV to work or what you're using?

1. Download it from where?
2. Setup it How?
3. Configure it with GBPVR?

I believe you said it use it with the Zap2it account right.. Any instructions would be welcome. I use to have the info, but that's way gone now...

Thanks in Advance..

Here ya go Tipstir.
Simple U.S.A. XMLTV walkthrough, for a zap2It account with a single supplier lineup.

1. download XMLTV.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xmltv...p?download

2. Extract the zip to your desktop. Rename the folder to XMLTV and move it to the root of your C:\ drive. You should now have a C:\XMLTV\ folder with several files and sub folders.

3. download CleanXMLTV, extract and copy CleanXMLTV.exe to your "C:\XMLTV\" folder.
http://www.prize.nl/software/pvr/xmltv.html#CleanXMLTV

4. Extract then copy the attached "UpdateEPG.bat" file to your "C:\Program Files\Devnz\gbpvr\" folder. Or make your own from the example below.

Code:

REM UpdateEPG.bat

C:
CD "C:\XMLTV\"

SET GRABBER=tv_grab_na_dd
SET NAME=North-America
SET XMLTVDIR=C:\xmltv\
SET DAYS=1
SET DESTINATION=.\%NAME%.xml
SET TZ=-0000


REM This configures your grabber. It will ask some questions.
SET CMDLINE=%GRABBER% --days %DAYS% --output "%DESTINATION%"
IF NOT %GRABBER% == "tv_grab_na" GOTO no_config:
%XMLTVDIR%\xmltv.exe %GRABBER% --configure
GOTO just_grab

:no_config
IF EXIST .\.xmltv\%GRABBER%.conf GOTO JUST_GRAB
%XMLTVDIR%\xmltv.exe %GRABBER% --configure

:just_grab
%XMLTVDIR%\xmltv.exe %CMDLINE%

CleanXMLTV North-America.xml --output XMLTV.xml

5. click on "UpdateEPG.bat" and enter your (Zap2It) username and password when asked. Just press enter for all other questions.

6. Using notepad, open "tv_grab_na_dd.conf" in the "C:\XMLTV\.xmltv" folder and verify the top two lines contain your username: and password:

7. Edit UpdateEPG.bat and change the number of EPG days to what you want.

8. Click on UpdateEPG.bat again, this time it shouldn’t ask for your username or password and it will download the listing for the number of days you selected.

9. Start the GBPVR Configuration utility, "edit" your "capture source(s)" and select "XMLTV Plugin" for the "EPG Source".
Click on "Settings" browse to the "C:\XMLTV\" folder, select "xmltv.xml" as the "XMLTV File" and click ok.

10. You have now returned to the "Edit Recording Source" menu, click on "Empty EPG", then "Update EPG".


Done.

[narkuma]

Today, I also had this gap-problem.
I changed from XMLTV to a service of a german television magazine.
german support for xmltv is poor...

I am missing all shows beginning on 00:00

This is an example what my actual xml file shows:
<programme start="20060404230000 +0200" stop="20060404233000 +0200" channel="HH1">
<title lang="de">Hamburg 1 Aktuell</title>
<sub-title lang="de">Nachrichten, Sport und Wetter + City Life</sub-title>
<category lang="de">Nachrichten</category>
<desc lang="de" />
</programme>

the old one:
<programme start="20060404230000 +0200" stop="20060404233000 +0200" showview="94-225-471" channel="hamburg1.de" clumpidx="0/1">
<title lang="de">Hamburg 1 Aktuell</title>
<desc lang="de">Nachrichten - Moderation: Lisa Reimnitz</desc>
</programme>

Perhaps someone can see the reason in this xml code. I cannot.
It is the same show. One is being showed in the guide, one is not.