[RELEASE] TV Guide - with XMLTV and streaming support

cheers danz01 , would it be asking too much if you could share your .STRM & xmltv files.. the one based on blackoutworm's streams.
it would be a HUGE help .. if not that's fine as well ,
Appreciate your help anyways.

i wrote a quick howto setup xmltv with multiple grabbers (eg usa & uk) using mc2xml. check post # 50.
i currentley use it for a mix of 65 streams from 5 countries (us/uk/ireland/austria/switzerland).
generating the xmltv file can take a while if you use multiple grabbers (weeding out double entries), but it's worth the effort because you wind up with a truely custom & global tv setup.

(2012-04-26 13:37)shaktoo Wrote:  cheers danz01 , would it be asking too much if you could share your .STRM & xmltv files.. the one based on blackoutworm's streams.
it would be a HUGE help .. if not that's fine as well ,
Appreciate your help anyways.

I could mate but to be honest all the tv card links will be specific to my setup and blackoutworms ones are easy to create (just create one per stream and then generate an xml file).

(2012-04-26 14:37)thatguy7669 Wrote:  i wrote a quick howto setup xmltv with multiple grabbers (eg usa & uk) using mc2xml. check post # 50.
i currentley use it for a mix of 65 streams from 5 countries (us/uk/ireland/austria/switzerland).
generating the xmltv file can take a while if you use multiple grabbers (weeding out double entries), but it's worth the effort because you wind up with a truely custom & global tv setup.

Oh now thats an idea. I'll look into that post. Where do you reside and how do you adjust the times to get the guide accurate (i.e American tv channels here in the UK would be a different timezone).

EDIT. Just started following you guide on http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1020937 but have a couple of questions..

1. How do you handle timezone differences
2. (for the uk i used option 18 for general sky satellite and for the us the option for directv us-general-listings)). I see no options for either, how did you get those ?

Ok I used the program mc2xml to create the xmltv file for my location
Now how to I point this application to the XML I created

I am in the USA and would love to have this app for USA channels

Can anyone help, thanks all

Let me start with a thank you to all for making the best EPG for XBMC
I use it with a few strm channels and HdHomeRun and it's all great.
For xml I use WebGrab+Plus http://www.servercare.nl/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=98 and it's great (comes with list of channels for almost whole world) - I use it for Europe.
Now I read in the beggining of this thread about livestreams and how they are on-off depending on the guy streamming that - I'm ok with that.
I hope you guys can give me an idea how to use TV Guide with SOPCAST. I found that some strm's are not working for me - but on same channels I can use sopecast just fine.
Other than using DSPlayer with sopcast filter to play the sop:// link , is there any way to add the sop link to TV Guide just like strm ?

Does the latest version work in dharma? I copied the new files over and it throws an error before even showing the TVGuide. I have it working fine with version 0.4.0.

Hi.
Thx for your pluggins, it worked fine using an XMLTV file i found on the web.
Now the thing that would be nice : When i click on the gide it say : locate me a .strm file to watch the corresponding element.
But I already have an Add-on in XBMC that allow me to watch tv over Net. So Would it be possible to add another option than .strm file to allow indicate the path to a coresponding Add-on (like when you create a customize new menu in XBMC, you can tell your skin that the given new menu will point to this or that favourites) ? It would be realy nice !
I Don't know if I was clear, if not ask me to precise

Edit : I have to investigate about that, but it seems, the logo didn't display though
I have in gif and jpg format.
Maybe it is because of the XMLTV file taht reference them like that ?
?

Ok that was the issue cause i put instead the hardpath(E:\XBMC\...\logo\tf1.jpg) and the icon showed up. But hardpath is bad, and since tv guide ask for the directory of logos i guess i could put a relative path ? So please tell me the name of this adress

Ok Well I guess i understand it.
The script don't look in my logo directory configured with the pluggin if the XML icon tag is present. And that is the case here.
And since my logo directory is not localhost then no icon found.
So I have to quote every icon tag for each channel.
And the nhe didn't work yet. *gif ou *jpg logo dont work for me but i tested *png and that worked.

New Edit ! : Now that I ifranview my *gif to *png logo, they are displayed, but the guide then bug and crash. If I change the directory of my logos to anoher an empty one, the guide work again.
So I guess it has some issue my loading my some of my logo ?

Ok I think I know why : The TV Guide bug on loading logo that contain accent in their label (the same as the channel name) like "France Ô" For exemple. I changed the XML channel name and *png label to France O without^ and no problem.
But this was to find out the bug.

Do you confirm that with accent in name the pluggin bug when dealing with logos ?