dealing with slashes in channel names

[crackshot]

I'm from Scotland, so the channel 3 (ITV) station comes up as:
STV (was Grampian/Scottish)

This causes problems when I'm using the webEPG - specifically the TV icon doesn't show because the icon doesn't register. All the rest of the channels are fine.

So, I think that changing the name of the station in GBPVR might do that, but can anyone else something else that would work around this problem?

Thanks.

[hzwaal]

I have the same problem in the Netherlands for a Belgian channel that is called Ketnet/Canvas. What I do is post-process the TV guide xml file to replace the slash by an underscore.

In the forum (http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=1468) I found that GB-PVR automatically strips these characters from the name, so you should use a name like:

"STV (was GrampianScottish)"

I haven't tried this myself, though (will do it tonight).

[hzwaal]

It works for me. Just drop the slash from the filename.

[crackshot]

I dealt with this issue by cheating. Blatently.

Created a folder in gbpvr\media\ChannelLogos called "STV (was Grampian" with a file in there called "Scottish).png"

so the EWA sees the file:
gbpvr/media/ChannelLogos/STV (was Grampian/Scottish).png

Works like a charm.

[sub]

Yeah, sounds like a EWA bug. In GB-PVR's TV Guide (in gbpvr.exe), I strip the slashes as hzwaal mentioned above. EWA should really do the same.

[UncleJohnsBand]

I'm from Scotland, so the channel 3 (ITV) station comes up as:
STV (was Grampian/Scottish)

This causes problems when I'm using the webEPG - specifically the TV icon doesn't show because the icon doesn't register. All the rest of the channels are fine.

So, I think that changing the name of the station in GBPVR might do that, but can anyone else something else that would work around this problem?

Thanks.

So does your icon name look like this? was GrampianScottish.png (or any other graphic extension)

[HtV]

I have slashes in the EWA channel mames, e.g. Ketnet/Canvas.
Could it have to do with the header of the epg-xml file. I have the following:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

It's added by a program called cleanxmltv.
I use Amontillado's tvgids_to_xml grabber, it does not add any header like that.