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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dalmer" data-source="post: 208011" data-attributes="member: 57967">Hi Gemx. There is problem with star rating entirely. Fo NA providers, I've looked at the epg in MT and Mediaportal, and they don't even correspond to each other. I can't even find any correlation between them. I think the epgparser must be decoding that value incorrectly. Maybe it is in NA only? You'll notice the other poster is from Canada as well, so I think that is why everything looks OK to you but we see "<undefined>" all over the guide (as well as wrong ratings). I think MT is right because it gave "The Dukes of Hazzard" 2 stars and MP gave it 3... At any rate, I've looked at the C++ portion of the code, but without any knowlege of how the epg in encoded, I can't be of much help.Also, I would be really nice to change the "<undefined>" to string.Empty so it isn't cluttering up the guide... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><Edit>I did some more digging and I think the problem may be in DecodeCombinedStarRating_MPAARatingDescriptor in epgDecoder.cpp I think the star rating code is wrong. In the comments it shows the data is based on a post in the dvbn boards. I found a later post that says the data is in bits 13-15 not 1-3:<a href="http://dvbn.happysat.org/viewtopic.p...ating&start=45" target="_blank">http://dvbn.happysat.org/viewtopic.p...ating&start=45</a>The relavent post is:Here is what I have found in the 0x89 descriptor (view it as a 16 bit word, big endian): bits 13-15 of descriptor 0x89 data: star rating 000 = not rated 001 = 1 star 010 = 1.5 stars ... 111 = 4 stars bits 10-12: MPAA rating 000 = NR/AO (pr0n) 001 = G ? 010 = PG 011 = PG-13 100 = R 101 = NC-17 ? 110 = unrated / not a movie 111 = ??? bit 9 = violent bit 8 || bit 0 = sexual content? my 301.013 sees SC on every single movie, I think dish is screwing this up bit 6 = nudity bit 5 = unknown but sometimes set bit 1 = language I found a C program called tv_grab_dvb which, with some tweaking, parses the dish network epg/eepg into an xmltv file. It's still not all that great but I haven't found any other open source programs which do this.This could be helpful as well:<a href="http://board.mytheatre.ru/viewtopic.php?t=1265&highlight=star+rating" target="_blank">http://board.mytheatre.ru/viewtopic.php?t=1265&highlight=star+rating</a>Could that be the problem for NA users? I haven't really had time to go over the code enough to see which bits it is actually using...</blockquote>

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