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On 12/24/2008 10:10 AM, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
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<pre wrap="">There is a series I want to record, but the local station doesn't list
title/episode info with TMS, just a generic. I found an out of area
station that does list the title/episode info and is in sync with the
local station except they play it 3 hours later.
If not for the 3 hours I could just edit the xmltvid in the channel
entry substituting the out of area schedule.
Any idea of how to get around the 3 hours, or do this a different way.
(Schedulesdirect has not been able to get TMS to supply title/episode
info for the local stations showing).
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<pre wrap="">Is this a network show or syndicated, or maybe even (rare) locally-produced?
If it's syndicated, I would try and contact the syndicator and complain that
episode information is not available to you.
Stations will listen to networks and syndicators more than a *mere* viewer.
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Its an old series that RTN (the Retro Network) carries. I've written to
RTN, the local station, and schedulesdirect all with no luck.
I've already manually fixed up one already recorded "generic" episode by
hand editing the mysql database with info from the xml I grabbed from
the out of area listing for that episode.
However, there are 100 episodes, and RTN plays them over and over so I
need some automat
Are there any tools for supplementing/overriding info from
schedulesdirect with other xml?
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Hi Ken.. sorry, but as you can tell, working with TMS is sometimes like
steering a train. :)<br>
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It's great that you found another station with the details... I can see
three solutions.<br>
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1. Download the SD data with XMLTV's tv_grab_na_dd in XMLTV format,
run the program through a script to replace the local RTN details
(shouldn't be too tough in Perl) , write the new XMLTV file and load it
into Myth. (Myth can load a XMLTV file). If I was writing it, I wold
steal code from XMLTV's TV_CHECK as it already has code to load XMLTV
data into arrays and build some hash indexes. It would be memory
intensive however.<br>
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2. Download the raw SD data (tv_grab_na_dd's --download-only option or
a custom script), run the program through a script to replace the "SH"
episode ID in the <SCHEDULE> tag with the new "EP" episode id and
then load that into Myth. I don't know if Myth can load SD formatted
data without downloading it.<br>
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3. Write a script to scan the MythTV DB and do the update (maybe only
a episode-id change, not sure) there. Not sure if this would be
simpler or not as I don't know how MythTV stores things internally.<br>
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Good Luck!<br>
Robert<br>
Schedules Direct<br>
XMLTV<br>
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