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[stefanbaar]

I have asked before but I did not get any answers to my question. Maybe some devoloper could tell me.

Why is it that when you enter tv in mp and go to the search button nothing is listed under genre.?
The only thing you can set in the tvserver under general - EPG is TITLE and DESCRIPTION but no genre??????

If you cant set it in the tv server, why is it listed i the search option in the tv server client plugin then? Dont understand.

If i am right, then I think this is a good Suggestion to get in to the tvserver.

Stefan

[vuego]

I think it depends on your guide data source. I'm not sure if you use DVB-EPG or xmltv.
I also have this issue but my xmltv file lacks the category tag needed I guess. When I press Genre in the Search TV Guide view I see only one genre called "-". If I open this category all shows are listed.

For xmltv the category tag is explained in xmltv.dtd:

<!-- Type of programme, eg 'soap', 'comedy' or whatever the
equivalents are in your language. There's no predefined set of
categories and it's okay for a programme to belong to several.
-->
<!ELEMENT category (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST category lang CDATA #IMPLIED>

[stefanbaar]

I have tried to grab epg from dvb-t but there is no genre.. Should there not be?
Allso tried to add %GENRE% - %DESSCRIPTION% in the description line in the tvserver, but it only shows -(description) in the tvguide.
And then i have allso tried 2 different xmltv grabbers also without any genres.
I guess if I cant find a danish egp grabber that supports genres then it is impossible to get this to work.

I just loked in the 2 different tvguide.xml files and none of them had something similar to:

<!ELEMENT category (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST category lang CDATA #IMPLIED>

Stefan

[vuego]

I just tried the xmltv grabber with the tv_grab_se_swedb source and it produces a xml file containing the category tag. I'm not sure about the danish source but it could be worth a try.

  <programme start="20071205133500 +0100" stop="20071205142500 +0100" channel="guld.tv4.se">
    <title lang="sv">Kojak</title>
    <desc lang="sv">Del 26 av 119.</desc>
    <credits>
      <actor>Dan Frazer</actor>
      <actor>George Savalas</actor>
      <actor>Kevin Dobson</actor>
      <actor>Telly Savalas</actor>
    </credits>
    <date>1973</date>
    <category lang="en">series</category>
    <category lang="en">Crime/Mystery</category>
    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">1972 . 25/119 .</episode-num>
    <episode-num system="onscreen">Del 26 av 119 säsong 1973</episode-num>
    <video>
      <aspect>4:3</aspect>
    </video>
  </programme>

The swedb site: http://tv.swedb.se/

[frodo]

Most DVB EPG guides dont contain genre information

Frodo