[mythtv-users] xmltv-tags

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/17/2014 06:12 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi All,
>
> I'm at present working on the dutch xmltv grabber tv_grab_nl_py.
> It hasn't been updated since 2012-03-27 and things were starting to
> annoy me. It also is a nice project to beter get to know python.
>
> I've updated the options, found a small bug preventing original air
> date being found and updated the genre translation (they changed some
> time ago to only a few genres with details in a subgenre. This among
> others making all series 'Drama')
>
> At present I'm looking for a list of usable tags in the xml-output.
> For instance there now is info about wether it's available in HD
> 1080i, which is not jet processed.

The best "list" of tags is at:

https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/master/mythtv/programs/mythfilldatabase/xmltvparser.cpp#L278

Perhaps you could make a wiki page with a real list.

Also, there is motivation to include support (where appropriate) for 
more, so patches to add additional information (at least information 
that's already a part of a MythTV program - 
https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/master/mythtv/libs/libmyth/programinfo.h#L686 
) would be appreciated.  I think the official plan is also to eventually 
switch Schedules Direct users to using XMLTV's Schedules Direct grabber 
and remove the Schedules-Direct-only code from MythTV.  However, the 
Schedules Direct code currently handles information that the XMLTV 
parser doesn't, so we'll need to add support for handling that 
information.  Any work you do toward adding support for additional XMLTV 
parsing could be done to complement that requirement.

You may also find #mythtv (since these would be development questions, 
rather than user questions that belong in #mythtv-users) on IRC at 
Freenode to be a good place to get help/information.

Mike