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[USER=154732]@Robert Kulagowski[/USER]

Following your post earlier I have also just downloaded the "official" grabber, configured and run it.  I'm afraid the issue with Series/Episode numbers is still there - see the following extract from the downloaded file. 

 

<programme start="20160701013500 +0000" stop="20160701020500 +0000" channel="I17155.json.schedulesdirect.org">

    <title>Power Monkeys</title>

    <desc>The results are in, the UK's fate has been decided. Tony is keen to begin the healing process, Preeya departs into government, and the David Cameron fudge has morphed into a sad metaphor.</desc>

    <credits>

      <actor>Jack Dee</actor>

      <actor>Claire Skinner</actor>

      <actor>Anthony Calf</actor>

      <actor>Liz Kingsman</actor>

      <actor>Kevin McNally</actor>

      <actor>Andy Nyman</actor>

      <actor>Gwyneth Keyworth</actor>

      <actor>Archie Panjabi</actor>

      <actor>Amelia Bullmore</actor>

      <actor>Ayda Field</actor>

      <actor>Robert Wilfort</actor>

      <actor>Ben Willbond</actor>

      <actor>Alec Utgoff</actor>

    </credits>

    <category>Comedy</category>

    <category>Politics</category>

    <category>Series</category>

    <category>series</category>

    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">0.3.</episode-num>

    <episode-num system="dd_progid">EP024389810004</episode-num>

    <previously-shown start="20160624" />

  </programme>

  <programme start="20160701020500 +0000" stop="20160701023500 +0000" channel="I17155.json.schedulesdirect.org">

    <title>Dispatches</title>

    <sub-title>Are you Owed a Pay Rise?</sub-title>

    <desc>Dispatches investigates the impact of the National Living Wage. Introduced earlier this year, it was supposed to mean a pay increase for some of Britain's poorest workers, but is everyone really getting richer?</desc>

    <category>Newsmagazine</category>

    <category>Community</category>

    <category>Series</category>

    <category>series</category>

    <episode-num system="dd_progid">EP012813480234</episode-num>

    <previously-shown start="20160627" />

  </programme>

In the first program the data in the "XMLTV_NS" fomat is there in  the line before the "dd_progid" format - which is good.  However, in the very next programme the "xmltv_ns" format does not appear whereas the "dd_progid format does.  As mm135200 explained elsewhere, MediaPortal does not support this format.  This is why I run a post-process script to remove the "dd_progid" lines.  Ideally it would be really great if the grabber could include a calculation element to extract the data from the "dd_progid" line and insert a new line into the file in the "xmltv_ns" format.  This is well beyond my skills otherwise I would do it at the the same time as removing the problem line.

 I also would very much like to see total number of episodes in the series included - does not appear in my downloaded file.