ShowChanger

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I have two little utilities you're free to use - they work for me, hopefully they work for you...

NOW FIRST UP - THESE LITTLE UTILITIES ARE FOR ADVANCED USERS OK !!!

There is hardly any error debugging, and they are quiet easy to break... Also, you're going to have to modify your bladerunner scripts or tvharvest scripts to use them - so 'pretend' to work out what your doing....

Background
Most of the EPG routines used are the old Tvharvest / Quickguide method or Bladerunner method (I have never used EPGRunner - so you might have to figure something out, and I have never used ICETV - but believe you could get this working here - but you're on your own I am afraid - only going to help out what I know -> Tvharvest based users (and variations)

Your EPG in these methods is simply based upon:

1. Screen sraping a source, which creates an XML file - typically it is called listing2.xml and then
2. Quickguide is used to load this XML file into MCE


Util 2: ShowChanger

The second utility allows you to change program names. As before, download this one from here
The zip file contains a sample ini file, again you must specify the input and output file that you want to modify
The format of the ini file is as follows;
Line1 Input File
Line2 Output File
Then you can have up to 20 lines of programming changes in the format
Start Time, End Time, Channel name in the XML file, Old Program Name, New Program Name

Processing takes a second - and if this program can find something that starts at the time specified, Ends at the time specified, on the channel specified, with the program name specified - it will simple substitute the new name....


Have fun guys

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Unfortunately guys - these tools work only with the old tvharvest / quickguide method - which is what I use. I have never changed to Bladerunner, as there was never a need to.. Everyone has been talking about Bladerunner as just being the same tool but automatically setting things up for you...

It would work, if Bladerunner created a Batch file that controlled the proceesing - unfortunately it does it via program calling each of the components. So you dont get a chance to edit the XML files...

With this oversight - after much discussion with the author of Bladerunner, and the knowledge that Bladerunner Pro being imminent... He agreed to include an option to pre-process the xml files, so that these or other tools can be utilised.

What this means at present - if you can access the listing2.xml file from tvharvest or similar you can use them. ie. those who configured tvharvest / quickguide manually or those who install the new Bladerunner Pro, when its available...