2006-02-09, 03:37 PM
I installed my new Hauppauge Nova-T and, after being disappointed with the bundled software, stumbled across GB-PVR and loved it 
I live in the UK and we're lucky enough to have the programme guides broadcast. I first attempted to use the DVB EPG plug-in, but found that the downloading process appeared to bail early in the process leaving a partially populated TV Guide. I then used the XMLTV EPG plug-in, with TV listings from http://www.bleb.org/tv/, and had more luck. After some set up shenanigans I had a good TV Guide for most of the channels. However, the âTMFâ and âThe Hitsâ channels schedules are not included in the bleb listings. How would I be able to get my fix of âKylieâ videos?
I then discovered the marvellous âTSReader Liteâ utility (http://www.coolstf.com/tsreader/) and managed to manually export the DVB broadcast EPG as XMLTV. The coverage of the standard channels wasnât as good as the bleb site, so I knocked up a short Perl script to extract the âTMFâ and âThe Hitsâ listings from the TSReader export and merge them with the bleb listings.
However, the XMLTV EPG import *still* failed before it got to the âTMFâ and âThe Hitsâ listings. I played with the XMLTV file for some time and found that the import stopped when it hit a pound character (â£â, 0xa3). The aforementioned channels tend to have a lot of messages such as âSMS your favourite tracks to ⦠for only £1 per messageâ in their programme descriptions. So, I modified my Perl script to remove this character and the complete XMLTV file imported successfully!
It crossed my mind whether the original DVB EPG import plug-in also terminated when it got to a pound character?
I live in the UK and we're lucky enough to have the programme guides broadcast. I first attempted to use the DVB EPG plug-in, but found that the downloading process appeared to bail early in the process leaving a partially populated TV Guide. I then used the XMLTV EPG plug-in, with TV listings from http://www.bleb.org/tv/, and had more luck. After some set up shenanigans I had a good TV Guide for most of the channels. However, the âTMFâ and âThe Hitsâ channels schedules are not included in the bleb listings. How would I be able to get my fix of âKylieâ videos?
I then discovered the marvellous âTSReader Liteâ utility (http://www.coolstf.com/tsreader/) and managed to manually export the DVB broadcast EPG as XMLTV. The coverage of the standard channels wasnât as good as the bleb site, so I knocked up a short Perl script to extract the âTMFâ and âThe Hitsâ listings from the TSReader export and merge them with the bleb listings.
However, the XMLTV EPG import *still* failed before it got to the âTMFâ and âThe Hitsâ listings. I played with the XMLTV file for some time and found that the import stopped when it hit a pound character (â£â, 0xa3). The aforementioned channels tend to have a lot of messages such as âSMS your favourite tracks to ⦠for only £1 per messageâ in their programme descriptions. So, I modified my Perl script to remove this character and the complete XMLTV file imported successfully!
It crossed my mind whether the original DVB EPG import plug-in also terminated when it got to a pound character?
