[plugin] XMLTV Importer

[garydean]

Originally Posted by StephaneM

I'll search later tonight if I can find a reference to PVSGuideDataLoader to see if you can register it by hand.

Thanks Stéphane. That would be great!

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by garydean

Thanks Stéphane. That would be great!

Actually I send you an email to you msn address with some registry entries to check before contacting SnapStream support.

[bast]

hi,
when i upgraded to version 3, the /silent parameter no longer works. it starts the importer but does not exit it.

did something change?
thanks

[Webbo]

I have also seen this behaviour in version 3 and suspect this is to encourage a small donation to StephaneM after which you will receive a download link to a version which has a built in scheduler that runs silently.

This works in a similar fashion to the BTV Web guide where you can only schedule a recording with the "donation" version.

I see this as eminently fair as Stephane puts in a huge amount of work on these programs and without the importer, BTV would be almost useless outside of the US.

[StephaneM]

Hello,

Originally Posted by bast

upgraded to version 3, the /silent parameter no longer works

Webbo is right, starting with version 3.0 the /silent (and /update) parameter is only available to donators.

Regards,
Stéphane.

[StephaneM]

Hello All,

If you wish to upgrade BTV to version 3.5.3, you'll have to use version 3.2 of the Importer.

Regards,
Stéphane.

[optikhog]

Stéphane, what was the fix applied for Daylight Savings Time? I'm still having issues with this. Ultimately, XMLTV realized that DST had kicked in, but the importer (3.2) is still showing everything as an hour off with the DST flag turned on.

I have manually reduced the offset by one hour, but was curious if you had seen this problem.

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by optikhog

Stéphane, what was the fix applied for Daylight Savings Time? I'm still having issues with this. Ultimately, XMLTV realized that DST had kicked in, but the importer (3.2) is still showing everything as an hour off with the DST flag turned on.

I have manually reduced the offset by one hour, but was curious if you had seen this problem.

The issue was that I was indeed applying DST but only DST, thus discarding the offset entered in the Importer.

For instance : you are GMT+1 with DST (+1). Then importer when not in DST removes one hour, and when in DST should remove again one hour. It was only removing the hour for DST. The fix is it is now removing 2 hours.

Your problem maybe that XMLTV has noticed that DST is on : you can't have both the importer and XMLTV to compensate for DST. The DST option in the importer is useful when the air time for a program in your XMLTV file doesn't change throughout the year (that would be normally the case as only GMT+XX should change).

For instance you have one show that airs every day at 20h00 local time. If the XMLTV says it is airing at 20h00 GMT+XX when not in DST and that it is airing at 19h00 GMT+XX when DST is on (if DST means +1), then you don't need to use the DST option in the importer.

Regards,
Stéphane.

[optikhog]

Ahh, perfect. Thanks for the info and the great program!

[optikhog]

OK, another problem. I finally got around to updating the web guide (to 2.4) and am now getting this error in my browser:

Server Error in '/' Application.
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Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:


[ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: length]
System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length) +172
Guide.Global.Session_Start(Object sender, EventArgs e) +189
System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.RaiseOn Start(EventArgs e) +132
System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.Complet eAcquireState() +514
System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.BeginAc quireState(Object source, EventArgs e, AsyncCallback cb, Object extraData) +696
System.Web.AsyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.Http Application+IExecutionStep.Execute() +66
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionS tep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +173

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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.2032; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.2032

What's up there? Note that I run it in the root of my IIS config.

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by optikhog

What's up there? Note that I run it in the root of my IIS config.

You mean to access the guide you only have to type : http://localhost and not http://localhost/guide (or whatever you like for guide)?

If this is the case then 2.4 will not work properly for you out of the box. I am expecting that the guide be in his own folder and not at the root of IIS.

I'll make a fix for this.

Regards,
Stéphane.

[optikhog]

Excellent. This has actually worked for all previous versions, so I am surprised that it no longer works...

[naarada]

Has anyone got this working with BTV 3.5.2 in US. I am using tv_grab_na_dd and the xmltvimporter says import is done but i do not see anything in the BTV logs or the channep lineup.

I have tried everything in the guide as well as the various forums posting about xmltvimporter.

Thanks

[StephaneM]

Hello,

Originally Posted by naarada

I am using tv_grab_na_dd and the xmltvimporter says import is done but i do not see anything in the BTV logs or the channep lineup.

Import is a two time process :

* First the Importer convert your XMLTV files into XML files suitable to BTV, those files are in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SnapStream\Beyond TV\3rdPartyGuideData

* Once those files are created the Importer tolds BTV to pick them up. BTV must be running to do so. If the Importer can't trigger BTV update, it should report it. Also the importer has no way to tell BTV where those XML files are. So they must be in the right location (the importer know they must be written to \Snapstream\Beyond TV\3rdPartyGuideDate, it just complete that path with your real "All Users" path).

So check for the existence of XML files in the 3rdPartyGuideData, if no files are in there (or somehow files that doesn't contain something that look like your data), the conversion was not successfull. In this case you might want to check first that you correctly edited your channels and lineups in the Importer.

If there is XML files in the folder, look BTV logs closer, it should try to pick them up and fail to do so, but at least it will report it.

Regards,
Stéphane.

[naarada]

Thanks for the quick reply.

The 4 files LineUp.xml, Episodes0.xml, Programs0.xml and LineupInfoByIndex.xml are in the
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SnapStream\Beyond TV\3rdPartyGuideData
directory.

The Snapstream logs have no reference at all to the guide data. I did restart it just in case and even reinstalled it.

******************* Starting Log*********************
[4/10/2005 18:22:59] Version 3.5.2 (Build 2006)
[4/10/2005 18:22:59] Loaded application data from: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SnapStream\Beyond TV
[4/10/2005 18:23:00] Scheduler started.
[4/10/2005 18:23:02] Using Better quality.
[4/10/2005 18:23:19] The Beyond TV ViewScape is closing itself due to a close message.

This is a subscriber edition of Snapstream that came with the Diamond XtremeTV card and it had 60-day trial license to Snapstream.Net but full license to use Beyond TV.

I do not see any error when i click on the Update to BTV button on XMLtv importer. I even ran it manually from the command line and i can see the process running. I didnt wait for too long, does it take a long time to process the update or i feel nothing's working.

I am running Windows XP SP 2.

Thanks