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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1245741" data-attributes="member: 109222">If you have a look inside your EPG-Buddy installation folder (with explorer or similar) you will find a sub- folder named &quot;EPG-Grabber.EPG&quot;. When you look into this you will see some more folders named after the EPG soures you are using. This is the download cache from EPG-Buddy and here you will find (among other things) the raw data downloaded from the websites. In at least one of the sub- folders there should be a bunch of files with extension .json <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON" target="_blank">Json</a>&nbsp; ( JavaScript Object Notation ) is a pure text file with a special serialized content for easy reading by a program. In short it is a way to transfer data in a simple text document. Due to the special notation it's human and machine readable.Tvguide.com is delivering the EPG data in .json format. Most (if not all) TV tools need the EPG-data in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML" target="_blank">xml format</a> (another way to store data in a simple text file). So EPG-Buddy needs to convert the data from the json file into an xml format before they can be used in MP, Argus, DVB-Viewer, TVHeadend,NextPVR, JRiver,... Zap2xml is doing a very similar task, by the way...JSon is the &quot;more modern&quot; format but up to now not that often used as xml.. It has less overhead and can be read faster a bit, that's why it will be more common in future...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1245741, member: 109222"] If you have a look inside your EPG-Buddy installation folder (with explorer or similar) you will find a sub- folder named "EPG-Grabber.EPG". When you look into this you will see some more folders named after the EPG soures you are using. This is the download cache from EPG-Buddy and here you will find (among other things) the raw data downloaded from the websites. In at least one of the sub- folders there should be a bunch of files with extension .json [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON']Json[/URL] ( JavaScript Object Notation ) is a pure text file with a special serialized content for easy reading by a program. In short it is a way to transfer data in a simple text document. Due to the special notation it's human and machine readable. Tvguide.com is delivering the EPG data in .json format. Most (if not all) TV tools need the EPG-data in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML']xml format[/URL] (another way to store data in a simple text file). So EPG-Buddy needs to convert the data from the json file into an xml format before they can be used in MP, Argus, DVB-Viewer, TVHeadend,NextPVR, JRiver,... Zap2xml is doing a very similar task, by the way... JSon is the "more modern" format but up to now not that often used as xml.. It has less overhead and can be read faster a bit, that's why it will be more common in future... [/QUOTE]

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