ABC 2 data not at the right time !

[neez]

Hi all !

I posted this question about 6 months ago. I still haven't been able to find a solution, and I don't know if I'm the only one with the problem.

I have recently upgraded to the new Bladerunner and OzTiVo, and still doesn;t fix my problem with my ABC 2 guide being 2 or 3 hours out, depending on EDST.

Does anyone know how to get the ABC 2 data at the correct time ?? Is it something on the OzTiVo site I need to select ?? Something to do with the Bladerunner configuration ??

I've missed out on a good 6 months of taping reruns of Collectors and New Inventors because of this. I refuse to miss out any more !!!!

Thanks
Neez

[zeppomarx]

Hi,

No, U are not the only one. Trouble is, that the info to best address this is splattered from one end of the web to the other.....

and there U go, try to vnc to the tv & look at the ehome contents, 15 min. later after re-opening ports that some *&^*s*&(* software closed, chasing from room to room checking the other computers are all accesible etc.... track down what happend to change everything, repair the network connection that went down for god only knows what reason, try to remember how to re-open vnc port and ICMP..... and then look at the files that should have taken 5 sec to see from this box.... @2:37 am

and all this after hunting the web for hours..... and the closest thing I find is your post....

typical....

I really love windows.

[zeppomarx]

OK, having calmed down a bit...

running OzTivoExtreme.exe in the BladerunnerPro directory (er um folder) should create an xmltv.xml in the GuideData directory (as per the BladeRunner.xml file). I gather, without acutally trying it, that something like HDiT.exe gobbles this to create guide.bin??? (Not willing to provoke the gods of "don't do that", I did not do that).

Anyway, if U look at BladeRunner.xml, it seems there is room to squeeze a preprocessor in, just after the OzTivoExtreme grabber, whose job is to munge the ABC2 programs in the xmltv.xml file. There are lines like

<programme start="blah +0000" stop=blah channel="ABC2">

I strongly suspect finding these lines and changing the +0000 to whatever will do the trick, then let the next pre-processor process the munged file.

Check out python or perl, its only a few lines in either language. Python can read the whole file into a dictionary, then pattern-match the lines and do the substitution in 4-5 lines of code.

I bet that after this, we'll get an answer from someone saying "You idiot I did that months ago, If U knew anything you would have known to look here...."

[neez]

I don't mind if someone calls me an idiot, as long as they tell me how to fix the problem also.

I have a program that opens up Subtitle files, and is able to shift the time in that, but keep the actual subtitle the same. Maybe I can modify it to fix the problem.

Anyway...I hope someone has the solution.

[zeppomarx]

About 30 years ago, you would say

ed xmltv.xml
g/channel="ABC2"/s/+0000/+0200/g
w
q


That's a 4 liner.

You can probably still do something similar with sed and cygwin, like

cd GuideData
sed 'g/channel="ABC2"/s/+0000/+0200/g' xmltv.xml > munged.xml
del xmltv.xml
rename munged.xml xmltv.xml

Put those lines in a .bat file, and define the .bat file as the 1st pre-processor after the grabber in BladerunnerWhateverItWas.xml

I have not tried this, but it is the quickest and diriest I can think of. All you need is to install cygwin, and choose the sed package (in editors from memory). You'll also need where_cygwin_is_installed\bin to your path.

[DDH]

Originally Posted by neez

I have recently upgraded to the new Bladerunner and OzTiVo, and still doesn;t fix my problem with my ABC 2 guide being 2 or 3 hours out, depending on EDST.

Does anyone know how to get the ABC 2 data at the correct time ?? Is it something on the OzTiVo site I need to select ?? Something to do with the Bladerunner configuration ??

Have you tried the OzTivoTimeOffset util?

Its in the download area http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/comm...do=file&id=107

[zeppomarx]

Thanks DDH, had a feeling that making enough noise would do the trick.

[neez]

OK thanks for that...brilliant that there is something out there that does it !!

I've done some trial and error, and I'm still on the error side of the process. Because I'd rather use something like "SBS News" rather than "SBSWN" or "SBS-News" in my guide, I have used the channelinfo program to change that. Does the OzTiVoTimeOffset util use the new channel name or the name that is downloaded from the oztivo site ??

If it uses the name I specified, can I have a space in the channel name...do I have to use quotes if I want a space....am I dreaming and should I live with SBSWN being my channel name in MCE ??

[richie83]

Hey all,

First time poster here :-)

I've setup MCE and have the guide data, just one problem, ABC2 doesn't show up? All the guide comes up except ABC2, even though I've selected it. Can anyone help out?

-Richard

[DDH]

Originally Posted by richie83

I've setup MCE and have the guide data, just one problem, ABC2 doesn't show up? All the guide comes up except ABC2, even though I've selected it.

Presuming since you've added to this thread that its OzTivo ..... Step 1 - logon to the site and check that you have in fact selected ABC2.