Australian TV Guide

[OgdenP]

Originally Posted by datfreak

I've been using JRobbo's tv guide for a while now--dammit is there any alternative?
How many people would pay JRobbo a couple bucks per week($104 per year) to keep making them?

anyways thanks JRobbo for all the work you have done in the past.

I'm now hosting a repackage of the OzTivo guides (thanks to Ryan "URYAN" from the DVB owners group). You can download them from http://xmltv.locost7.info

[Forgotten Illustrator]

Why do you need to host a repackaged OzTivo gudie?

You just need to register here http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome and setup your preferences.

Then with Big_kev’s great program udder the “EPG data Source” tab you check the “Wktivo” source and enter you user name and password. Now you get the guide direct from Oztivo.

[OgdenP]

Originally Posted by Forgotten Illustrator

Why do you need to host a repackaged OzTivo gudie?

You just need to register here http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome and setup your preferences.

Then with Big_kev’s great program udder the “EPG data Source” tab you check the “Wktivo” source and enter you user name and password. Now you get the guide direct from Oztivo.

Some people find the OzTivo site to be confusing and a simple package is all they want/need.

[mrkaras]

I have added that link to my safexmltv config, I don't want usernames and passwords, I just want a TV guide as simple as possible (Yeah, I know safexmltv is not relay all that simple to setup, but you get that)

[scoulter]

Originally Posted by OgdenP

I'm now hosting a repackage of the OzTivo guides (thanks to Ryan "URYAN" from the DVB owners group). You can download them from http://xmltv.locost7.info

GetOzTvGuide script/plugin now uses this XMLTV guide so thanks for hosting it OgdenP

[pdiaz]

Firstly thanks to everyone involved in providing the resources that make the GetOzTvGuide script a wonder to use. I have used the previous versions (using JRobbo's guides - thanks mate) without much issue. With 3.522 I found that although it translated the Channel ID correctly in the XML, Media portal did not import them into the EPG. After pulling my hair out for many hours I gave WebEPG a burl and noted the XML file had the Channel ID in the same cryptic format (e.g. sa.abc.gov.au) but the Display Name matched my MediaPortal channel names. In a whim I enabled the lines in the GetOzTvGuide script which start with:

'MediaPortal doesn't use Display Names so don't bother translating them.

As well as replacing the Channel Translations with:

Call addChannelTranslation("ABC TV SA", "ABC HDTV")
Call addChannelTranslation("Seven SA","7 Digital")
Call addChannelTranslation("ABC2", "ABC2")
Call addChannelTranslation("Nine SA", "NINE HD")
Call addChannelTranslation("Ten SA", "TEN HD")
Call addChannelTranslation("SBS SA", "SBS HD")
Call addChannelTranslation("SBS World News", "SBS NEWS")
Call addChannelTranslation("Seven HD", "7 HD Digital")

That is so it will change the Display Names to the MediaPortal Channel Names and would leave the Channel Id's alone. Lo and behold this works and fixed my problem. I am using the current SVN so maybe Display Names have become part of MediaPortal?

Also, a couple of questions for the author:

- Is there a way to get the iexplorer Progress Window to close when it is finished?
- Is there any way to be able to map EPG data to 2 MP channels (e.g. ABC and ABC HD)?

Anyway, thanks again for a great script...works a treat and is so much simpler and quicker than other tools out there.

[scoulter]

Originally Posted by pdiaz

Firstly thanks to everyone involved in providing the resources that make the GetOzTvGuide script a wonder to use. I have used the previous versions (using JRobbo's guides - thanks mate) without much issue. With 3.522 I found that although it translated the Channel ID correctly in the XML, Media portal did not import them into the EPG. After pulling my hair out for many hours I gave WebEPG a burl and noted the XML file had the Channel ID in the same cryptic format (e.g. sa.abc.gov.au) but the Display Name matched my MediaPortal channel names. In a whim I enabled the lines in the GetOzTvGuide script which start with:

'MediaPortal doesn't use Display Names so don't bother translating them.

As well as replacing the Channel Translations with:

Call addChannelTranslation("ABC TV SA", "ABC HDTV")
Call addChannelTranslation("Seven SA","7 Digital")
Call addChannelTranslation("ABC2", "ABC2")
Call addChannelTranslation("Nine SA", "NINE HD")
Call addChannelTranslation("Ten SA", "TEN HD")
Call addChannelTranslation("SBS SA", "SBS HD")
Call addChannelTranslation("SBS World News", "SBS NEWS")
Call addChannelTranslation("Seven HD", "7 HD Digital")

That is so it will change the Display Names to the MediaPortal Channel Names and would leave the Channel Id's alone. Lo and behold this works and fixed my problem. I am using the current SVN so maybe Display Names have become part of MediaPortal?

Also, a couple of questions for the author:

- Is there a way to get the iexplorer Progress Window to close when it is finished?
- Is there any way to be able to map EPG data to 2 MP channels (e.g. ABC and ABC HD)?

Anyway, thanks again for a great script...works a treat and is so much simpler and quicker than other tools out there.

1. I have a new version that updates the Display Names according to user-defined translations. I have found that this was not necessary but will upload this new version on the weekend.

2. I can modify the script to close the window when it finishes so will add the line but it will initially be commented out and require the user to uncomment this. I personally like to know how the XMLTV download goes each time, just in case it fails. The window is useful for first-timers too to see what the XMLYV channel names are.

3. I believe that the OzTivo guides contain Seven HD programmes already, but only contain programmes that are actually HD programmes, not just a broadcast of the SD programmes. If you view the ouput window of the script you will see that it displays all Channels that it finds in the downloaded script.

4. I could modify the script to simply repeat all SD channel information for the corresponding HD Channels. This would take longer to import into MediaPortal though. I could do it as a user-configurable option. This would be very easy to do using Python and a real pain in VB (it's do-able but this is my 1st and last VB script). Let me know if you REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want it :-)

[pdiaz]

Originally Posted by scoulter

1. I have a new version that updates the Display Names according to user-defined translations. I have found that this was not necessary but will upload this new version on the weekend.

2. I can modify the script to close the window when it finishes so will add the line but it will initially be commented out and require the user to uncomment this. I personally like to know how the XMLTV download goes each time, just in case it fails. The window is useful for first-timers too to see what the XMLYV channel names are.

3. I believe that the OzTivo guides contain Seven HD programmes already, but only contain programmes that are actually HD programmes, not just a broadcast of the SD programmes. If you view the ouput window of the script you will see that it displays all Channels that it finds in the downloaded script.

4. I could modify the script to simply repeat all SD channel information for the corresponding HD Channels. This would take longer to import into MediaPortal though. I could do it as a user-configurable option. This would be very easy to do using Python and a real pain in VB (it's do-able but this is my 1st and last VB script). Let me know if you REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want it :-)

My God scoulter you are a machine Changes 1 & 2 are greatly appreciated mate, thanks for putting in so much work into tweaking this awesome script. As for 3 & 4 I wouldn't worry too much about it, it was just a thought as I have my channel groups split between HD and SD in MP but assign the EPG to the HD channels as that is what I mainly watch. Anyways, HD specific EPG data is starting to pop up like you mentioned (e.g. 7 HD), so I am sure over the next year or so we will be seeing those gaps being filled in.

Once again, thanks for all your great work Guys that can script are geniuses in my book!

[Big_Kev]

Hi All,

To those still using my little program...

I have added a new column to the "Channel Setup" page that allows you to specify a channel to merge data from.

This allows programs from channels in the "Merge With" column to fill gaps in the program guide from the main channel.

So for 7HD data from ozTiVo (or re-packaged version ), you can specify 7 Digital (SD) as the merge channel and fill the gaps in the 7HD programming (7HD does not have program data where it is the same as 7 SD).

If you want to try this, dont forget to uncheck any groupings for the seven network on the "Groups" page.

The channel list on the right of the "Channel Setup" page now has a "reload" button that will put all of the channel names in without having to reset the grid.

I have attached a screen shot of my setup for Seven HD to merge data.

Kev

[fromaron]

Thank you for update.
I have problem though running the program. Whenever I try to save or reset grid or just reload channels the program falls of with the fault:
"Access violation at address 0041D770 in module "oztvmprt.exe". Read of address 00000004"

After failing the 0.1.13 version I reverted back to ver.11. I don't understand why, it gave me the same error.
I uninstalled the program again and ran regedit to check for any traces, it was clean, nevertheless the version didn't work.
I installed ver 8 and it worked OK. I am puzzled.