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<blockquote data-quote="dero" data-source="post: 132925" data-attributes="member: 29291">Hi folks,I'd like to post how I get my EPG-data. This may be interesting or not to someone. But, when I was looking how to get EPG-data, I was searching and searching... So, I thought that I should share my way to get it.At first, I tried the website-grabbers. But, I was rather unsatisfied with the result. So, I decided to buy a TV-Movie-ClickFinder abo.I've got two TV-cards: One analog with cable tv and one DVB-T (Berlin). So, I had to solve the following problems:1. Timesharing. Some channels (broadcaster) share the same service (frequency). Moreover, a channel may occur in more than one service, e.g. Ki.Ka appears in KI.KA / HSE24 and KI.KA / ZDFdokukanal.2. One big XMLTV-import-file is bad for TVGuideScheduler since it blows up the entire XML-tree instead of parsing thru the file resulting in large memory demand.I wrote a little JAVA-programme that does the following:1. Run tvuptodate (TV-Movie-Clickfinder updater)2. Run tvm2xml (Extract data from TV-Movie database to one large XMLTV-file)3. Parse the XMLTV-file3.1. Remap channels and consider timesharing and multiple occurrence3.2. After each 1000 programmes, the data is flushed to an XMLTV-file which is imported using &quot;TVGuideScheduler /FILE tvdatachunk.xml&quot;For parsing, I use the SAX-parser which does not blow up the entire XML-tree. So, it does not need much memory.Open problems:1. Setup the script to run overnight using PVR-scheduler.2. Grab some channels that TV-Movie does not have from DVB-T EPG.3. I have to investigate a little bit in this timezone thingy. Let's see what happens if we switch to summer time...Regardsdero</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dero, post: 132925, member: 29291"] Hi folks, I'd like to post how I get my EPG-data. This may be interesting or not to someone. But, when I was looking how to get EPG-data, I was searching and searching... So, I thought that I should share my way to get it. At first, I tried the website-grabbers. But, I was rather unsatisfied with the result. So, I decided to buy a TV-Movie-ClickFinder abo. I've got two TV-cards: One analog with cable tv and one DVB-T (Berlin). So, I had to solve the following problems: 1. Timesharing. Some channels (broadcaster) share the same service (frequency). Moreover, a channel may occur in more than one service, e.g. Ki.Ka appears in KI.KA / HSE24 and KI.KA / ZDFdokukanal. 2. One big XMLTV-import-file is bad for TVGuideScheduler since it blows up the entire XML-tree instead of parsing thru the file resulting in large memory demand. I wrote a little JAVA-programme that does the following: 1. Run tvuptodate (TV-Movie-Clickfinder updater) 2. Run tvm2xml (Extract data from TV-Movie database to one large XMLTV-file) 3. Parse the XMLTV-file 3.1. Remap channels and consider timesharing and multiple occurrence 3.2. After each 1000 programmes, the data is flushed to an XMLTV-file which is imported using "TVGuideScheduler /FILE tvdatachunk.xml" For parsing, I use the SAX-parser which does not blow up the entire XML-tree. So, it does not need much memory. Open problems: 1. Setup the script to run overnight using PVR-scheduler. 2. Grab some channels that TV-Movie does not have from DVB-T EPG. 3. I have to investigate a little bit in this timezone thingy. Let's see what happens if we switch to summer time... Regards dero [/QUOTE]

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