Adult Show Filter/Block

[koornneef]

Hi. Just getting stuff setup..Awesome.

This is one extension I would love, I'm not sure if this can be handled by a plugin.

- Block entire categories
- Block shows by name (Reg. Ex. even better, but partial is good)
- Password protected on/off toggle, if you see fit. If I'm blocking the kids, I prolly don't want to watch it either, but I can see people wanting that feature.

In the standard TV Guide, I can assign colours. I would also love to block the same way (block by colour?).
This would:
1. Not allow me to choose the item in the guide for playing or recording
2. Remove the result from search.. Same reason
3. Disallow me to channel surf to that program in live TV (this may require Core code changes??)

Basically, I would love to block out "Adult" content by category, maybe other categories like shopping
I would love to also selectively remove shows by partial name match like "Paid Advertising" or "Infomercial" or "Trailer Park Boys" (sorry, my kids really don't need that show at their current age.)

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Config info for the record (in case you're collecting stats):

ASUS Prodigy P4S333VR, Celeron 2.2GHz, 1GB RAM, Hauppauge HVR-1600. ASUS supplied AGP DVI/Composite out video extension) All other components are on the Motherboard (SiS).

I'm using GBPVR.exe since my old 'spare' machine won't handle X2
It will run Overlay, or VMR7 -- but VMR7 is choppy on DVD playback at 85%++ CPU.

Please count another user in Canada looking for Closed Captioning. I had the HVR-1600 in the Vista machine and it supported CC in Media Center -- but not WinTV2000, so it is capable -- don't know what drivers/tricks, etc. Microsoft is using.

[gEd]

I wrote a couple of scripts to remove content from my xml EPG before loading the EPG up into gbpvr.

cleanlistings.bat
rem Script to remove unwanted shows from the tv xml file data.xml

FOR /F "DELIMS=¶" %%A IN (Shows_To_Avoid.txt) DO call do_cleaning "%%A"

do_cleaning.bat
xmltv tv_grep --not --title %1 <data.xml > data.tmp
del data.xml
ren data.tmp data.xml

(you need to download xmltv.exe first)

or you could probably write a script to run ANSI SQL on the database, something like
DELETE from RECORDING_SCHEDULE WHERE CATEGORY="ADULT"

[koornneef]

Thanks,

I'll have to give that a try.

[gEd]

good luck.

btw: after a quick google, I see you can filter on fields other than the title. Perhaps you might want to try category if you have adult channel genres.

C:\Programme\xmltv-0.5.34-win32>xmltv tv_grep foo --or
--title bar 2004-282
Timezone is +0200
nothing to the left of --or, should use as EXPR1 --or EXPR2
usage: tv_grep [--help] [--output FILE] [--ignore-case|-i]
(EXPR | REGEXP) [FILE]
where EXPR may consist of
(programme content matches)
--audio ''
--category REGEXP
--channel REGEXP
--clumpidx REGEXP
--country REGEXP
--[snip]----------

[zehd]

I think there may be a way, to get TV Listings to Not display Adult titles in list mode, and password to open or schedule to record...

I have no idea, just looking into TV Listings...