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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hurley" data-source="post: 1134155" data-attributes="member: 151395">TV Guide spam has been driving me mad here (Australia) too. It's mainly Nine network.I decided to have a go at writing a plugin to filter the DVB guide data and also fix another issue that's always been a problem where Once recording schedules get broken if the broadcaster changes the start/end time or program title after the schedule has been set. This also tends to un-cancel any cancelled series schedules.The plugin EPGCleaner uses regex to filter the guide data so it's very configurable but also has a simple mode which uses wildcard matching like * and ? for less complex filtering.There's an unlimited number of filters for both program title and description text which can be mapped to all channels or selected channels only and the title filter matches can optionally be pre-pended to the description text. Useful for suffixes like New Episode or Premiere etc..Some other features include:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> A filter tester to check if your regex pattern works as expected.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Convert upper-case titles to title case. (with ignore list)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Separate or remove the short description text.</li> </ul> (Some networks send the title or episode name in the short description field which MediaPortal doesn't handle so it gets pre-pended to the description text without a space. This option removes the short description if it matches the title or inserts a separator if it's an episode name or something else.) Repair Schedules: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Repairs all schedules where titles are changed by EPGCleaner filters (whether Repair Schedules is enabled or not)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Repairs Once schedules and cancelled series schedules where: Start time, end time or title has changed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Removes obsolete cancelled schedules from the database for pre MP 1.10 versions.</li> </ul>After setting up your filters and options you won't see any changes until the guide is next updated. You can speed this process up by clicking Refresh EPG which currently just replicates TV-Server Configuration -> Manual Control -> Refresh DVB EPG but without any feedback. I intend to improve this function for the release version.I should note that this is an unofficial alpha version so enable logging and keep a close eye on things if testing it.There's a few tweaks plus language translations and documentation/help to be done yet but most options are tool-tipped.It would be good to get some field testing feedback as I'm stuck on WinXP and MP 1.3.0 for my HTPC here and have only tested Windows 7 MP 1.10.0 on a borrowed tuner-less laptop.Oh, for any Aussie users, these settings have been working well for me the past month or so:Upper Case to Title Case [Enabled] Channels: 7,9,10 networks (Ignore list: M*A*S*H, CSI, NY) Separate/Remove desc prefix [Enabled]  Channels: 7,9,10 networks Repair Schedules [Enabled] Enable Logging [Enabled]Title Filters: 1. "\(Inc.*\)?" (Replace with: empty) Channels: 9 network (Removes channel nine's spam) 2. " - (New Episode|New|Final|Premiere)" (move to description) Channels: 7,9 networks 3. "Movie: " (move to description) Channels: 10 networks (This ones just for consistency across channels)Description Filters: 1. "\(Inc.*?\)" (Replace with: empty) Channels: 7 networkDon't include the quotes!!! and note leading/trailing spaces.<img src="http://oi57.tinypic.com/n2ebkn.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Removed version 0.1.0.32 of plugin. See post below for update.</blockquote>

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