Episode and Series Numbers Reversed for Recorded TV (1 Viewer)

[wlt55]

MediaPortal Version: 1.2.1
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CPU Type: Acer Revo Dual Core
HDD: 250 Gb
Memory: 2 Gb
Video Card: nVidia ION
Video Card Driver:
1. TV Card: Hauppauge USB
1. TV Card Type: DVB-T
Remote: MCE
TV: SONY/Toshiba
TV - HTPC Connection: Sub-D/HDMI

My recordings from UK Freeview TV are reversing the Series and Episode numbers. I have attached the .xml file saved with the recording which shows the correct series/episode within the "Comment", but shows them reversed under the individual "Series" and "Episode" tags later in the file.

I have already tried to search the forum and google to find a solution without success. I am new to MediaPortal and this forum, however, so I apologise if I've missed something or not provided any information needed within this post.

Does anybody have a solution?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Can you say what the source of the epg info, ie freeview epg grabbing or using something like xmltv gui to create xml.

 

[wlt55]

Can you say what the source of the epg info, ie freeview epg grabbing or using something like xmltv gui to create xml.

Thanks for the reply.

I'm using WebEPG to create the guide, with data from digiguide selected within WebEPG

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Well that might be where the wrong info is coming from, will need a copy of the xml produced by WebEPG to compare with, which is going to be a nightmare, because you will need to know in advance that recorded program xml has the problem

 

[wlt55]

I think I may have found the answer to the problem.

In trying to find the way that the xml is created, I discovered this within the digiguide "grabber" file at C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\WebEPG\grabbers\GB\2-www_mydigiguide_com.xml:

</Template>
- <Searches>
<Search match="Series [0-9]{1,3}" field="#EPISODE" remove="false" />
<Search match="Part [0-9]{1,3}" field="#SEASON" remove="false" />
<Search match="episode [0-9]{1,3}" field="#SEASON" remove="false" />
<Search match="Subtitles," field="#SUBTITLES" remove="true" />
<Search match="Repeat," field="#REPEAT" remove="true" />
<Search match="Widescreen," field="#WIDESCREEN" remove="true" />
</Searches>

The third and fifth lines appear to show the reversal of the episode and series fields. I will try editing these fields and report back on how I get on.

 

[wlt55]

I think I may have found the answer to the problem.

In trying to find the way that the xml is created, I discovered this within the digiguide "grabber" file at C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\WebEPG\grabbers\GB\2-www_mydigiguide_com.xml:

</Template>
- <Searches>
<Search match="Series [0-9]{1,3}" field="#EPISODE" remove="false" />
<Search match="Part [0-9]{1,3}" field="#SEASON" remove="false" />
<Search match="episode [0-9]{1,3}" field="#SEASON" remove="false" />
<Search match="Subtitles," field="#SUBTITLES" remove="true" />
<Search match="Repeat," field="#REPEAT" remove="true" />
<Search match="Widescreen," field="#WIDESCREEN" remove="true" />
</Searches>

The third and fifth lines appear to show the reversal of the episode and series fields. I will try editing these fields and report back on how I get on.

Now edited the xml file to change the #EPISODE and #SEASON entries around and it seems to work properly.

Thank you for your help.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

So it was the produced xml that caused this, glad to hear that, always wonder why digiguide against radiotimes which I use!!

 

[wlt55]

I am a new user to MediaPortal, and used digiguide just due to the automatic features of WebEPG. I don't really know if it is better or worse than radio times because I have not even tried it. I like the presence of series and episode numbers on digiguide, but perhaps they are on radio times as well?

Perhaps I need to experiment with the different options - for example I did try "For the Record" briefly, but found that the EPG gave a lot less data and no episode/series numbers.

Anyway, thank you again.

 

[robbo100]

PD,

Do you manage to get Season and Episode data through RadioGuide?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Use dvb epg for grabbing radio info, never looked at any other source, very rarely use MP's radio and it's a least 6 months since recorded anything from there either