Hi,
I have tested the XMLTV program guide in my freevo installation yesterday. I have
found out some things which I want to share. (This applies to german program
listings...)
1. Somewhere in the Docs, I have found that you can just wget the listings from
yasd.cc. This does not seem to work any more. Just use www.szing.at instead.
2. wget'ting the listings directly lead to wrong start and stop times. The times were
shifted about 1 hour. Also the format of the resulting XML seemed not be exactly what
freevo wanted to have. (E.g. there was no channel table) I now use tv_grab_de, which
works much better. ( I had to change the channel ids in local_conf.py.)
3. The program listings have programs which overlap. For example, on 3SAT, they always
have a program "anders fernsehen" which runs the whole day... Another example was "ARD
Frühstücksfernsehen" which seems to run from 5:30 in the morning until 4:45 the next
morning. This is obviously wrong. I have put some coding at the end of load_guide() in
epg_xmltv.py which checks if one programs stop time is greater than the start time of
the next program. If yes, it changes the stop time to the start time of the next
program.
If someone is interested, I'll post the coding here. Perhaps this could be included in
the next release?
4. In the listings from szing.at, the last program of the last day listed does not
have a proper stop time. The file epg_xmltv.py contains a documentation that it should
be able to cope with that, but it lead to a "corrupted" program guide. I have changed
the line
prog.stop = timestr2secs_utc(p['start'][0:8] + '235900' + p['start'][14:18])
to
prog.stop = timestr2secs_utc(p['start'][0:7] + '235900' + p['start'][14:])
After that, it worked fine. The last program for each channel now has the stop time
23:59. This is far from correct for most programs, but it works.
Perhaps that should also be included in the next release?
Regards,
Thorsten
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