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<blockquote data-quote="kellizer2" data-source="post: 162613" data-attributes="member: 27444">Genius!!!! I have another few suggestions that maybe of interest to you. Does it match all display names in the XMLTV channel node against the mediaportal name? I recall the original plugin only matched the first displayname, so if the matching XTLTV channel name was the second displayname node then it was not matched to the MP channel.Also, it would be sweet to allow for near match algorithms to analysis the comparisons between the channel names in Mediaportal and in that of the xmltv file. Basically, nothing complex but what I am thinking of a decorator style pattern on where you have a drop down combobox with different algorithms that can run against the datasets to see if you can have a comparative match between unconnected TV Channels. E.G. Title Match, whitespace trim – put both the MP Channel and the xmltv channel into lower case &amp; trim the white spaces&nbsp; - the would mean that if the MP Channel is called BBC 3 and the XMLTV Channel was bbc3 then both would match. For some reason; the channels in the UK have spaces and whitespace mismatch.The reason i suggest to allow for a collection of algorithms that other people could write there own matching patterns between the channels.Obviously this is simply to aid in the setup time in the mapping between the channel – but does help if you have &gt;200 channels. What do you think?Do you update the original binaries at the start of the post?If there is anything that I can do then give me a shout but I’m a java programmer by trade but never scared to have a go with C#.Cheers,Ian</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kellizer2, post: 162613, member: 27444"] Genius!!!! I have another few suggestions that maybe of interest to you. Does it match all display names in the XMLTV channel node against the mediaportal name? I recall the original plugin only matched the first displayname, so if the matching XTLTV channel name was the second displayname node then it was not matched to the MP channel. Also, it would be sweet to allow for near match algorithms to analysis the comparisons between the channel names in Mediaportal and in that of the xmltv file. Basically, nothing complex but what I am thinking of a decorator style pattern on where you have a drop down combobox with different algorithms that can run against the datasets to see if you can have a comparative match between unconnected TV Channels. E.G. Title Match, whitespace trim – put both the MP Channel and the xmltv channel into lower case & trim the white spaces - the would mean that if the MP Channel is called BBC 3 and the XMLTV Channel was bbc3 then both would match. For some reason; the channels in the UK have spaces and whitespace mismatch. The reason i suggest to allow for a collection of algorithms that other people could write there own matching patterns between the channels. Obviously this is simply to aid in the setup time in the mapping between the channel – but does help if you have >200 channels. What do you think? Do you update the original binaries at the start of the post? If there is anything that I can do then give me a shout but I’m a java programmer by trade but never scared to have a go with C#. Cheers, Ian [/QUOTE]

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