I regularly download TV-guide data for Dutch TV-channels (with WebEPG). Since a few weeks the TV-guide doesn't contain specific program-information anymore for the channel Nederland 3. It just says 'Nederland 3' for 24 hours everyday.
I now see that I've got the same problem with the channels 'Animal Planet', 'RTL7' and 'The Box'. In the tvguide.xml file the data is oké.scoop said:Same here,
And thanks to tvgids.nl for putting those lame descriptions in there... Since a month or so they put an entry for "Zapp" and "Nederland 3" with the description "Met om:" . On the site they use this to clearly show the difference between the Children's channel and the regular broadcasts, but it breaks WebEPG / TVGids_to_XML etc.
Kind regards,
Michel
AFAIK the data in the tvguide.xml is not ok. Yeah, all programs are in the tvguide, but there's also a big overlapping program which is why the actual programs aren't shown.csberto said:In the tvguide.xml file the data is oké.
You're right. But how are we going to do that?scoop said:Hi,
AFAIK the data in the tvguide.xml is not ok. Yeah, all programs are in the tvguide, but there's also a big overlapping program which is why the actual programs aren't shown.csberto said:In the tvguide.xml file the data is oké.
And yeah, it seems tvgids.nl is doing this for even more channels now.I guess the best solution is to see if we can convince the grabber configuration to skip those invalid entries.
Kind regards,
Michel
Thanks. I will try it out this weekend.ookmich said:Another alternative: I'm quite happy with TVxb. See http://www.tvxb.com/
With this program you can manage all kind of ways to grab your xmltv information. Combine different sources, description only for specific channels and times etc. It is quite keen in deciphering the sources so if anything changes on tvgids.nl it probably keeps working!
For channels where you want to have categories (genres) but no complete descriptions, SBS/veronica has a fine EPG that s grabbed fine by TVxb.
Michiel.
Tried TVxb today and it works. All channels now have detailed program information (incl. Nederland 3). But:csberto said:Thanks. I will try it out this weekend.ookmich said:Another alternative: I'm quite happy with TVxb. See http://www.tvxb.com/
With this program you can manage all kind of ways to grab your xmltv information. Combine different sources, description only for specific channels and times etc. It is quite keen in deciphering the sources so if anything changes on tvgids.nl it probably keeps working!
For channels where you want to have categories (genres) but no complete descriptions, SBS/veronica has a fine EPG that s grabbed fine by TVxb.
Michiel.