NPVR & Guideplus Error

[exiton]

I'm trying to get guideplus working on my windows 7 x64 system to rename all my recordings. I downloaded the modified Guideplus that was built for x64 systems. I've successfully called guideplus in my updateepg.bat and output a .xml file. When I try to load that XML file into NPVR as an EPG source for my HDPR, I get the following error. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[sub]

It looks like you're trying to feed the application a bad xmltv file. Specifically, it looks like there is an error on line 1310 of the file. If you zip and attach the xmltv file, I should be able to tell you more.

[exiton]

Thanks. I reduced the filesize by using mc2xml.chl and limiting the channels. The zip file is like 3 megs zipped. The new error is on line 691 position 22.

http://www.multiupload.com/9E6OKQ4O3U

Edit: I finally got notepad ++ to load the file. If my counting is correct, it looks like the "&" in "A & E" is causing the error? The original xml file, prior to GuidePlus processing,has "&" instead of "&".

[sub]

Edit: I finally got notepad ++ to load the file. If my counting is correct, it looks like the "&" in "A & E" is causing the error? The original xml file, prior to GuidePlus processing,has "&" instead of "&".

Yep, the utility you're using is not correctly escaping the special characters. The application (or rather Microsoft's XML library) will not be able to load this xmltv file until it is correctly escaped.

You'll need to contact the author of the utility and ask them to correct it.

[carpeVideo]

Not sure which version you are using but the latest does handle this correctly.
Attached

[Misko5]

carpeVideo, seeing as I'm not good with this kind of stuff, are there any simple step by step instructions on what I must do to get this to work (i.e. where to put the files and what not)? I would like my recordings to read "Title - EpisodeName". I am recording two channels basically non-stop and there are a lot of episodes from the each show I record and I need to know what episodes are which. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Northpole]

@carpeVideo,

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong but guideplus can't seem to find my gbpvr/npvr directories. I have tried running it from the gbpvr directory, the npvr user directory and my xml directory without any luck. Any ideas?

I'm running Vista using a command prompt with admin rights.

here is my command line window

Code:

C:\Windows\system32>"C:\media programs\GBPVR\guidePlus.exe" xmlin="C:\media programs\GBPVR\xmltv.xml" xmlout="C:\media programs\GBPVR\xmltv1.xml"
nGuidePlus.exe version .70
GBPVR/NPVR key / install directory not found.
*** Parm 0 = xmlin=C:\media programs\GBPVR\xmltv.xml
*** Parm 1 = xmlout=C:\media programs\GBPVR\xmltv1.xml

Unhandled Exception: System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteException: SQLite error
no such table: RECORDED_EVENT
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLite3.Prepare(String strSql, SQLiteStatement previous, String& strRemain)
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.BuildNextCommand()
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.GetStatement(Int32 index)
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteDataReader.NextResult()
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteDataReader..ctor(SQLiteCommand cmd, CommandBehavior behave)
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.ExecuteReader()
   at ShowDetail.IShows.addNpvrRecordingsToShowList(String dbaseDir, Boolean modeNpvr)
   at guidePlus.Program.Main(String[] args)

C:\Windows\system32>

[carpeVideo]

Are you running 64 bit or 32 bit os?

[Northpole]

Are you running 64 bit or 32 bit os?

32 bit... but I gave up on Vista and went back to xp. Also, having a similar issue on xp.

Code:

C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR>guideplus xmlin="C:\media programs\GBPVR\xmltv.xml" xmlout="C:\media programs\GBPVR\xmltv1.
xml"
nGuidePlus.exe version .70
GBPVR/NPVR key / install directory not found.
*** Parm 0 = xmlin=C:\media programs\GBPVR\xmltv.xml
*** Parm 1 = xmlout=C:\media programs\GBPVR\xmltv1.xml

Unhandled Exception: System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteException: SQLite error
no such table: RECORDED_EVENT
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLite3.Prepare(String strSql, SQLiteStatement previous, String& strRemain)
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.BuildNextCommand()
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.GetStatement(Int32 index)
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteDataReader.NextResult()
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteDataReader..ctor(SQLiteCommand cmd, CommandBehavior behave)
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.ExecuteReader()
   at ShowDetail.IShows.addNpvrRecordingsToShowList(String dbaseDir, Boolean modeNpvr)
   at guidePlus.Program.Main(String[] args)

C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR>

[carpeVideo]

Can you find the key (gbpvr install dir or npvr installd dir) in regedit and put the path and its value here? And are you running both on the same machine at the same time? You may need to manually specify the sql path.

If there is no issue there perhaps it is permissions (less likely under XP)

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