Duplicate Schedule Entries Slightly Offset

[LewE]

Lately, I have had a strange thing show up in the TV Listings. Occasionally, a show will show up with two entries in the (almost) same time frame. For example, I have attached a snap showing the program Testees beginning at 7:30 and running for 30 minutes and a second Testees starting at 7:31 and running for 31 minutes. I am posting this in UltraXMLTVEnhancer forum because the one listing indicates it is "S1E05" before the episode title and the other doesn't. I assume that this is significant to explaining what is happening.


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Any ideas of why this is happening? I also uploaded the relevant portions of the XMLTV.xml and XMLTV.xml.BeforeProcess.xml files which show entrees for the Testees show for this episode. The numbers to the left of each jpg are the line number from viewing the file with NotePad++ to show that there are four different entries for the same episode in the xml file. The snaps with the words BEFORE PROCESS are from the XMLTV.xml.BeforeProcess.xml file.

[zehd]

I looked. You did quite a bit of homework, but next time, could you send the before and after xmltv file?

Well, it looks like the original had the multiple entries and so that's what Ultra spit out. I don't think that there is anything Ultra did...

I'm not sure if I will be adding a safety net to catch these type of errors. I couldn't tell but are the really close entries totally side by side, or one or two records apart.

I suppose I could hold test variable to compare a new record to the one just previous, and if it's the same name, channel and within a minute or two of the same start, it could skip that record...

[LewE]

I looked. You did quite a bit of homework, but next time, could you send the before and after xmltv file?

I still have copies of the files. Unfortunately, they are 15 and 20 MB in size and I don't think this web site will allow uploading files that big, even after they are zipped. I have copied the contiguous portion of each file that includes the records in question and attached them to this message. If you need other portions of the files, let me know.

Well, it looks like the original had the multiple entries and so that's what Ultra spit out. I don't think that there is anything Ultra did...

I'm not sure if I will be adding a safety net to catch these type of errors. I couldn't tell but are the really close entries totally side by side, or one or two records apart.

The line numbers at the left of the originally submitted screen snaps (from the Notepad++ editor) show how far apart they are in the xml files and the portions of the files I attached to this message will show you exactly what is between each of the records.

In case it affects anything, you should know that I have two capture cards (Hauppauge 350 and 150) that each get the listings for the same channels.

What I don't understand is why one of the resultant program listings has the "S01E05-" inserted between the "(EP01082349.0005)" and the program episode name "Uber-Glued" and the other doesn't.

[zehd]

I still have copies of the files. Unfortunately, they are 15 and 20 MB in size and I don't think this web site will allow uploading files that big, even after they are zipped. I have copied the contiguous portion of each file that includes the records in question and attached them to this message. If you need other portions of the files, let me know.

The line numbers at the left of the originally submitted screen snaps (from the Notepad++ editor) show how far apart they are in the xml files and the portions of the files I attached to this message will show you exactly what is between each of the records.

In case it affects anything, you should know that I have two capture cards (Hauppauge 350 and 150) that each get the listings for the same channels.

What I don't understand is why one of the resultant program listings has the "S01E05-" inserted between the "(EP01082349.0005)" and the program episode name "Uber-Glued" and the other doesn't.

I don't know what happened. I'm not going to spend any time on it unless it becomes a serious issue. These double entries have popped up from time to time even before Ultra. It's true there aren't double entries in the original snippet, but there's no reason why Ultra would have created two entries.

As far as the xml files, when you zip it should be small enough for hotmail. If it's necessary fro me to see the files, you could hotmail them to me...

[LewE]

I don't know what happened. I'm not going to spend any time on it unless it becomes a serious issue.

In that case, I will keep a watch and try to document any instances of this I come up with in the future to try to find a pattern.

I just did a quick look and did find at least one instance of it happening again. It was on the same network (FX) and the program was The Shield. As you can see, they have different information for the same episode number. More significantly (to me) they have different program lengths.

When I have some time I plan to write a utility to scan my xml file to find instances of duplicate programs having start times that are very close to each other. Unfortunately, I don't think I will have time to do this soon. UPDATE: It occurred to me that the duplicate entries are not in the XML fles but in the GBPVR.DB3 data base. Unfortunately, although searching the XML files is within my abilities, doing the same with the DB3 files is not.

These double entries have popped up from time to time even before Ultra. It's true there aren't double entries in the original snippet, but there's no reason why Ultra would have created two entries.

When you say that double entries have showed up before Ultra, do you mean that they occurred without any processing beyond just XMLTV and GBPVR? That would indicate the problem is with one of those applications.

I'm still curious why one of the double entries had one extra piece of information (the S01E05) inserted beyond the basic XMLTV processing even though both entries showed that they had extra processing performed UltraXMLTV Enhancer.

As far as the xml files, when you zip it should be small enough for hotmail. If it's necessary fro me to see the files, you could hotmail them to me...

You're right. I could have emailed it but I didn't think of that.

[zehd]

When you say that double entries have showed up before Ultra, do you mean that they occurred without any processing beyond just XMLTV and GBPVR? That would indicate the problem is with one of those applications.

I meant even before Ultra was invented. Yes, it does appear to be a flaw in either the listing source or GB-PVR. If I remember correctly, I only ever saw a problem while using the TV Listing plugin, rather than the default TV Guide, but I could be wrong. It was very few and far between

I'm still curious why one of the double entries had one extra piece of information (the S01E05) inserted beyond the basic XMLTV processing even though both entries showed that they had extra processing performed UltraXMLTV Enhancer.

Yes, I wonder why Ultra caught the Season_Episode info for one show but not the other, with exactly the same title/subtitle information. In theory as each record is processed, it's processed entirely separate from each other.

Maybe you could send me the original xml file and I can run it through here. zehd 1963 at hot mail ...

Your idea of creating a scanner is not bad, and in theory, Ultra would be the right place to put that in, but I process a file sequentially. It would be crazy for me to hold a single shows information, only to compare it to another show, later in the file, and then do that for every programme...

Maybe, a simple scan of program times, start and stop by channel, and then when there's a show that is TOO close, inspect and compare the rest of the info...

Well, I'll look into this if it gets out of hand...