Mailing List Archive: EPG Data

EPG Data

Oct 5, 2008, 7:24 PM

Post #1 of 19 (11455 views)

Hi Hads

I hear that you provide the EPG data for mythtv in NZ (which by the way
I have been using very happily for a while - thank you)

I also hear that you apply hacks to the data to overcome the vagueness
of the broadcasting people...

With that in mind, would it be possible to massage the "Dr Phil"
listings into something more consistent? I have just had it pointed out
to me by my wife that I have missed todays recording.

It seems that it is sometimes listed as "Dr Phil" (7th Oct) and
sometimes listed as "Dr. Phil" (8th, 9th 10th Oct).

Thanks in advance - and apologies if this sort of email gets in the way
of more interesting stuff.

Evan Giles

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Re: EPG Data [ In reply to ]

nick.rout at gmail

Oct 5, 2008, 7:50 PM

Post #2 of 19 (11285 views)

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On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Evan Giles <evan@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi Hads
>
> I hear that you provide the EPG data for mythtv in NZ (which by the way
> I have been using very happily for a while - thank you)
>
> I also hear that you apply hacks to the data to overcome the vagueness
> of the broadcasting people...
>
> With that in mind, would it be possible to massage the "Dr Phil"
> listings into something more consistent? I have just had it pointed out
> to me by my wife that I have missed todays recording.
>
> It seems that it is sometimes listed as "Dr Phil" (7th Oct) and
> sometimes listed as "Dr. Phil" (8th, 9th 10th Oct).
>
> Thanks in advance - and apologies if this sort of email gets in the way
> of more interesting stuff.

Short of manipulating the data you could make a custom recording rule.
My regex foo is non existent, but there must be a rule that matches
Dr. Phil and Dr Phil as well as Doctor Phil for when they next try to
break it.

There was a similar thread in relation to Doctor|Dr|Dr. Who last time
it was showing...

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Re: EPG Data [ In reply to ]

hads at nice

Oct 5, 2008, 8:00 PM

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On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 15:24 +1300, Evan Giles wrote:
> I hear that you provide the EPG data for mythtv in NZ (which by the way
> I have been using very happily for a while - thank you)

Hi. I just look after a program to regurgitate the data from it's weird
forms, but thanks for the thanks, it's always nice :)

> I also hear that you apply hacks to the data to overcome the vagueness
> of the broadcasting people...
>
> With that in mind, would it be possible to massage the "Dr Phil"
> listings into something more consistent? I have just had it pointed out
> to me by my wife that I have missed todays recording.
>
> It seems that it is sometimes listed as "Dr Phil" (7th Oct) and
> sometimes listed as "Dr. Phil" (8th, 9th 10th Oct).
>
> Thanks in advance - and apologies if this sort of email gets in the way
> of more interesting stuff.

No need to apologies at all. I've added a regex to the list of
replacements (http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/title-replacements/) hopefully that
should sort it. Thanks for the heads up.

hads
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Re: EPG Data [ In reply to ]

amphibem at gmail

Oct 16, 2008, 11:34 PM

Post #4 of 19 (11140 views)

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Hads,

Would you be able to another change to that list? Pulp Sport is showing
up as 'Pulp Sport 6 1' (which I assume will change to 6 2 etc), and I
don't want to have to set it week by week.

Cheers

Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 15:24 +1300, Evan Giles wrote:
>
>> I hear that you provide the EPG data for mythtv in NZ (which by the way
>> I have been using very happily for a while - thank you)
>>
>
> Hi. I just look after a program to regurgitate the data from it's weird
> forms, but thanks for the thanks, it's always nice :)
>
>
>> I also hear that you apply hacks to the data to overcome the vagueness
>> of the broadcasting people...
>>
>> With that in mind, would it be possible to massage the "Dr Phil"
>> listings into something more consistent? I have just had it pointed out
>> to me by my wife that I have missed todays recording.
>>
>> It seems that it is sometimes listed as "Dr Phil" (7th Oct) and
>> sometimes listed as "Dr. Phil" (8th, 9th 10th Oct).
>>
>> Thanks in advance - and apologies if this sort of email gets in the way
>> of more interesting stuff.
>>
>
> No need to apologies at all. I've added a regex to the list of
> replacements (http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/title-replacements/) hopefully that
> should sort it. Thanks for the heads up.
>
> hads
>

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Re: EPG Data [ In reply to ]

hads at nice

Oct 17, 2008, 12:18 AM

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On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 19:34 +1300, Andrew Richards wrote:
> Would you be able to another change to that list? Pulp Sport is showing
> up as 'Pulp Sport 6 1' (which I assume will change to 6 2 etc), and I
> don't want to have to set it week by week.

Hi Andrew,

I've added "Pulp Sport.*" to "Pulp Sport" which should catch that.
It's only showing on the freeview feed at the moment. Thanks for letting
me know. It will be in the next update this evening.

Cheers,

hads

P.S. I'm working on a new feed from the freeview XML which has some extra
data in it like HD too.

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Re: EPG Data [ In reply to ]

steven at openmedia

Oct 17, 2008, 1:44 AM

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On 17/10/2008, at 8:18 PM, Hadley Rich wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 19:34 +1300, Andrew Richards wrote:
>> Would you be able to another change to that list? Pulp Sport is
>> showing
>> up as 'Pulp Sport 6 1' (which I assume will change to 6 2 etc), and I
>> don't want to have to set it week by week.
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> I've added "Pulp Sport.*" to "Pulp Sport" which should catch that.
> It's only showing on the freeview feed at the moment. Thanks for
> letting
> me know. It will be in the next update this evening.
>
> Cheers,

If we can get a set of good examples of bad data I can chase this with
freeview

>
> hads
>
> P.S. I'm working on a new feed from the freeview XML which has some
> extra
> data in it like HD too.
>

Let me know if you need any help with this. In theory we just need a
decent XSLT or similar to re-write the XML.

Steve

Steven Ellis - Technical Director
OpenMedia Limited
email - steven@openmedia.co.nz
website - http://www.openmedia.co.nz

Re: EPG Data [ In reply to ]

hads at nice

Oct 17, 2008, 2:06 AM

Post #7 of 19 (11155 views)

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On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 21:44 +1300, Steven Ellis wrote:
> If we can get a set of good examples of bad data I can chase this with
> freeview

Everything I know about is here;

http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/title-replacements/

although a lot of that is for Sky.

> Let me know if you need any help with this. In theory we just need a
> decent XSLT or similar to re-write the XML.

It's not hard at all just making some time, I have something nearly
done. I decided against XSLT because date/time transformations are a
little annoying.

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Re: EPG Data [ In reply to ]

cmcconnochie at gmail

Oct 19, 2008, 12:11 AM

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I just spotted another Freeviewism. Survivor last week was called "Survivor: Gabon 1", now its called "Survivor: Gabon".

I'd also like to point out that I don't watch this show :-)
https://mythtv/mythweb/tv/detail?recordid=134"]
Hadley Rich wrote:

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 21:44 +1300, Steven Ellis wrote:
If we can get a set of good examples of bad data I can chase this with freeview
Everything I know about is here; http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/title-replacements/"]http://epg.pvr.geek.nz/title-replacements/ although a lot of that is for Sky.
Let me know if you need any help with this. In theory we just need a decent XSLT or similar to re-write the XML.
It's not hard at all just making some time, I have something nearly done. I decided against XSLT because date/time transformations are a little annoying.

Re: EPG Data [ In reply to ]

hads at nice

Oct 19, 2008, 12:28 AM

Post #9 of 19 (11078 views)

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On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 20:11 +1300, Cameron McConnochie wrote:
> I just spotted another Freeviewism. Survivor last week was called
> "Survivor: Gabon 1", now its called "Survivor: Gabon".

Thanks. That's a slightly tougher one since it will change every season
but I've added a rule for "Survivor: Gabon.*" now. I also added one for
"The Big Food Fight.*" too since they seem to like putting the subtitle
in the title some weeks and not others. These will pickup overnight.

hads

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Re: epg data [ In reply to ]

jonathan.hoskin at gmail

Sep 15, 2010, 2:30 PM

Post #10 of 19 (9852 views)

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>
>
> > Is it just me or has epg data on line stopped updating as I have
> > onlyfour days of data left.
> > Stu
>
> Good heads up - my Freeview data runs out Sunday :-(
>
>
Yep mine too is DCM.

Re: epg data [ In reply to ]

james at booths

Sep 15, 2010, 2:42 PM

Post #11 of 19 (9852 views)

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I have seven days showing.

From: mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Jonathan Hoskin
Sent: Thursday, 16 September 2010 9:30 a.m.
To: MythTV in NZ
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] epg data

> Is it just me or has epg data on line stopped updating as I have
> onlyfour days of data left.
> Stu

Good heads up - my Freeview data runs out Sunday :-(

Yep mine too is DCM.

Re: epg data [ In reply to ]

jonathan.hoskin at gmail

Sep 15, 2010, 3:25 PM

Post #12 of 19 (9855 views)

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>
> I have seven days showing.
>

Do you use nzepg.org ?

Re: epg data [ In reply to ]

james at booths

Sep 15, 2010, 3:43 PM

Post #13 of 19 (9848 views)

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Yep.

From: mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Jonathan Hoskin
Sent: Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:25 a.m.
To: MythTV in NZ
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] epg data

I have seven days showing.

Do you use nzepg.org ?

Re: epg data [ In reply to ]

james at booths

Sep 15, 2010, 3:53 PM

Post #14 of 19 (9846 views)

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Sorry all, I lied. Was checking via Mythweb and must not of refreshed the
page when I changed the date on the listings. I now have no data after
Sunday.

From: mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Jonathan Hoskin
Sent: Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:25 a.m.
To: MythTV in NZ
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] epg data

I have seven days showing.

Do you use nzepg.org ?

Re: epg data [ In reply to ]

dmoo1790 at ihug

Sep 15, 2010, 4:55 PM

Post #15 of 19 (9859 views)

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No problem with my epg from freeview MHEG broadcast. (smug grin).

On 16/09/2010, at 10:53 AM, "James Booth" <james@booths.net.nz> wrote:

> Sorry all, I lied. Was checking via Mythweb and must not of
> refreshed the page when I changed the date on the listings. I now
> have no data after Sunday.
>
>
>
> From: mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz [mailto:mythtvnz-
> bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Jonathan Hoskin
> Sent: Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:25 a.m.
> To: MythTV in NZ
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] epg data
>
>
>
> I have seven days showing.
>
>
>
> Do you use nzepg.org ?
>
>
>
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Re: epg data [ In reply to ]

hads at nice

Sep 15, 2010, 5:01 PM

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On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 11:55 +1200, David Moore wrote:
> No problem with my epg from freeview MHEG broadcast. (smug grin).

There's no issue with the EIT data either. I imagine that Freeview will
fix their XML feeds too.

Pity for you that your MHEG data you're smug about doesn't include all
the title normalisation, categorisation, season and episode numbering :)
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Re: epg data [ In reply to ]

dmoo1790 at ihug

Sep 15, 2010, 9:05 PM

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On 16/09/2010, at 12:01 PM, Hadley Rich <hads@nice.net.nz> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 11:55 +1200, David Moore wrote:
>> No problem with my epg from freeview MHEG broadcast. (smug grin).
>
> There's no issue with the EIT data either. I imagine that Freeview
> will
> fix their XML feeds too.
>
> Pity for you that your MHEG data you're smug about doesn't include all
> the title normalisation, categorisation, season and episode
> numbering :)

Touche. Axially I think episode (series?) numbers are in the MHEG data
but not sure how consistent they are. (Oops. Just realised I top
posted last email. Bloody phone.)

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Re: epg data [ In reply to ]

stevehodge at gmail

Sep 15, 2010, 10:36 PM

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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:05 PM, David Moore <dmoo1790@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> Touche. Axially I think episode (series?) numbers are in the MHEG data
> but not sure how consistent they are.
>

There was a thread here a while back where someone posted some example data.
It looked like there were series and episode ids but the episode ids didn't
seem to exactly line up with episode numbers.

Cheers,
Steve

Re: EPG data [ In reply to ]

alistair at rtr

May 25, 2015, 3:58 AM

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On 25/05/2015 10:36 p.m., Nick Rout wrote:
> tv_grab_nz-py or have you been using something else?
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Alistair Dunn <alistair@rtr.org.nz
> <mailto:alistair@rtr.org.nz>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've been using an epg download to populate MythTV (Ubuntu) for
> freeview and non-freeview channels for the last few years, but
> unfortunately it hasn't been updated in a few days and its now
> almost run out. So, I suppose its time for me to look at how to go
> about implementing my own grabber to generate the data directly
> (unless, of course there is a simpler alternative). Can anyone
> help with a pointer or a guide to help a relative Linux newbie
> figure out the steps needed to generate the epg from a cable
> source in NZ. I suspect I'll be needing a tuner card
> (recommendations?) and a method to process the stream to extract
> the xml guide data. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated,
> Thanks,
> Alistair
>

Up to now, I've been using an anonymously supplied xml for non-freeview
channels, then importing with mythfilldatabase using a home written
script. My understanding is that tv_grab_nz-py is for freeview channels
only.

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