per channel offset. (1 Viewer)

[Macfox]

Hi,

Firstly, I like to say how good I think webEPG is. To have a single program that is flexible enough to gather guide data from various sites is a massive achievement. Well done.

I'm hoping someone can assist with finding a solution to per channel offsets. The basic issue is this.

In Australia we have several government funded stations that are broadcast nationally (ABC2/ SBS-News). That's to say the same broadcast covers multiple time zones. Guide data only exists for one of these time zones and for the others it's necessary to compensate by either -30mins (South Australia) or -2hrs (Western Australia).

Australian MCE users use a custom OzTivoTimeOffset application "http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/downloads.php?do=file&id=107" to compensate. Unfortunately no such program exists for MP.

I have thought of creating a duplicate grabber with a different time zone just for these stations, however the guide data is supplied in GMT and no windows time zone exists to compensate by the -30 minutes margin.

Ideally it would be great if the WebEPG had a per channel offset to deal with this situation.

How are others dealing with this problem?

Rob

 

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[James]

The bumping is a little annoying.

There is generally a problem with the timezones on ozTivo. I made some posts eariler this year to their mailing list without much success. See here:

http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tvguide/2007-March/subject.html

Title: [TVguide] TimeZone of guide data

Please contact ozTivo (make a post to the mailing list) with your problem and help me get the timezone included in the data.

 

[Macfox]

Had a read of that thread... Interesting fact they they insist on UTC, but that obviously not the case with these national channels.

If that was the case it wouldn't be an issue for us SA and WA people.

WebEPG needs a per channel offset or OzTivo need to correct the TZ data.

Rob

 

[James]

Problem is I cannot simply give the channel a timezone.

I cannot say X channel is in the NSW timezone, because it is not. It is in UTC, but came from the NSW timezone. I'm still not sure why this wouldn't work for the ABC2 channels. I would have thought the timezone conversion would be done correctly?

Please provide an example with all the times; from the site, from Webepg and the real time.

 

[Macfox]

Yes. IMHO UTC should be good enough. However SBS-WN and ABC2 are the only FTA national channels I use and the local ones work perfectly.

I'll get details for you. Maybe you can see if there is an "real" problem or I'm just making a simple error.

Regards
Rob

 

[Macfox]

I messaged the tvguide@tuhs.org mailing list.

http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tvguide/2007-November/003527.html

I have found out, that ABC2 and SBSWN aren't a single national broadcast, rather several feeds offset for each timezone. Thus only one guide is needed.

After considering the problem, it seems that they just need to duplicate the guides for each time zone. Given there's multiple channels, with the same content, it make sense to me.

It will be interesting to see if this idea gets support

Rob.

 

[sonome]

How are others dealing with this problem?

I use the tv_grab_au_tuhs grabber (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/tv_grab_au_reg.html) to get the Oztivo xml guide data, rather than WebEPG. It allows users to add custom offsets for each channel, which means I can shift ABC2 and SBSNews data while leaving the rest of the channels as is (I'm in WA).