TV Guide for Aussies (8 Viewers)

[BKCH]

Hey Samuel337 I agree completely re: tvguide - I should have been clearer but that is what I meant by:

One note here is that tvguide.org.au relies on people entering in guide data so we probably need to do the right thing...

 

[yankinoz]

BRP was fixed to grab the new format now but there are a few changes needed to the data to get MP to read it. Still trying to work around it now.

Hey Callifo - any luck? I've got updated BRP and TVxB building what seems to be a valid tvguide.xml, but MP doesn't seem to like it.

Rob

 

[Marcusb]

I've been experimenting with BRP and TVxB and I am usually very good with manipulating xml files for MP's use, but I have to admit that this latest round has me stumped.

I can manually adjust the BRP output so MP can use it but of course I would prefer an automatic solution.

I have noticed that ABC has full program listings available in XML format so my preference would be to have TVxB combine the ABC XML and then fill the other channels with BRP data. This would give perfect guide for ABC channels and reasonable information for the rest.

Has anyone had any luck with a set up like this?

What is the best people have come up with so far?

 

[yankinoz]

I can manually adjust the BRP output so MP can use it but of course I would prefer an automatic solution.

Marcusb: What needs to be done? I've got a script that is changing the channel names - I could probably change other things...

Rob

 

[Marcusb]

the only way I can get MP to recognise the BRP input is to take an existing tvguide.xml and replace all the information manually.
MP needs to have the channel information at the beginning of the XML file, whereas MCE uses a separate XML to define the channels.

The example below shows what I have.
I then take the BRP program information only and paste that into the middle.
For some reason I couldn't get TVxB to merge the BRP XML (or any other XML for that reason)

<tv date="Tuesday, 15 November 2005">
    <channel id="Channel Nine Melbourne">
      <display-name>Channel Nine Melbourne</display-name>
    </channel>
    <channel id="ABC VIC">
      <display-name>ABC VIC</display-name>
    </channel>
    <channel id="ABC2">
      <display-name>ABC2</display-name>
    </channel>
    <channel id="Channel Seven Melbourne">
      <display-name>Channel Seven Melbourne</display-name>
    </channel>
    <channel id="Network TEN Melbourne">
      <display-name>Network TEN Melbourne</display-name>
    </channel>
    <channel id="SBS Melbourne">
      <display-name>SBS Melbourne</display-name>
    </channel>
    <channel id="SBS News">
      <display-name>SBS News</display-name>
    </channel>
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 </tv>

 

[Callifo]

From what I found, TVXB cant fix the new file format. You need to add the channel information at the start. I wrote a java program to automate it for me and if you guys what to change that you can. Its as simple as changing the channel names inside the java program and then just run it.

I just made a cmd file which does brp.exe->tvguide.java->copy tvguide.xml -> MP dir.

 

[yankinoz]

thanks guys, I think that gives me enough information...

 

[voxmortis]

I've decoded the ninemsn webpage and hosted it on my PC - using Abyss server. All automated.

I use the old BRP, change TVHarvest config to point to my webpage, keep the pop-up URL the same, cos ninemsn haven't encoded the descriptions.

Hey, presto - works like it used to. Pay TV is the most important part for me, so my batch script is using two diff configs for TVHarvest - one FTA, one pay, then BRP does its job... then I use TVxb to sort the resulting mess out (after top and tailing the 2 xml files to get rid of repeating lines).

It's do-able, many flavours/ways of doing the same thing!

No doubt someone from ninemsn reads this thread as well as the XPMCEAU threads!

 

[BKCH]

Hi all - not sure how many people are interested in tvguide.org.au especially with voxmortis' great work getting around the ninemsn issue - but just in case there are some changes to the method for using the tvguide.org.au grabber - the author the grabber very kindly put in a test for tzset and changed a couple of this so the following is the new recipe:

1. Download the grabber from: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/tv_grab_au_tuhs.

2. Download and install a python interpreter - I used the free ActiveState distribution found at: http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePythonFamily/?tn=1.

3. Run tv_grab_au_tuhs.py --configure - I recommend using -c to override the config file location so the command would be:

tv_grab_au_tuhs.py --configure -c <config file path\name>

4. Edit the file that was created in the above step - In the obvious spot put your username and password for tvguide.org.au.

You'll also need to add a line for each channel you want to grab - it should be pretty obvious but the *new* format is:
<channel display="<MP channel name>" tuhs="<TVGuide.org.au channel name" />

An interesting note here is that for the +2 channels you'll need to substitute "%2B" for the "+" in the <tvguide.org.au> - but then after the grab we need to search and replace those %2B's back to +'s.

I have a config file for Sydney FTA + full Foxtel so PM me if you want a copy!

5. Run: tv_grab_au_tuhs.py -c <config file path\name> -o rawguide.xml

6. Download something like SED - I used http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/ - just download and unzip into the directory that has you grabber in it.

7. After you've grabbed the data into rawguide.xml in step 5 run the following to subsitute the +'s back in:

sed-3.59.exe s/"%2B"/+/ rawguide.xml > tvguide.xml

8. Point MP at your new tvguide.xml, change your timezone offset (mine was 11 hours)

9. Enjoy

I found that every so often the grab times out (not very often but occasionally) so I use the following windows batch file to check for that and bring it all together and upload to my 2 media portals:

echo off
set E0=0

:grab

if %E0%==4 goto end
if %E0%==3 set E0=4
if %E0%==2 set E0=3
if %E0%==1 set E0=2
if %E0%==0 set E0=1

tv_grab_au_tuhs.py -c config.baby -o rawguide.xml

if %errorlevel% EQU 1 goto grab

sed-3.59.exe s/"%2B"/+/ rawguide.xml > tvguide.xml

:copy
copy tvguide.xml z:\
copy tvguide.xml y:\

:end
if %E0% EQU 4 echo The grab failed.

 

[BKCH]

The script has now been updated so you don't need to worry about the + stuff - just put + in the config file and the script will do the rest (so don't worry about steps 6 or 7.