On 14 Sep 2005, at 18:32, Hywel Williams wrote:
Some forthcoming changes/issues.
1. It has been pointed out that the format of the DVB locator used
in the ContentReferencing Tables and the ProgramLocation tables
don't conform to the DVB standard! Essentially the divider between
the date and time should use "--" rather than "/" to be DVB
compliant. e.g. dvb://233a.4000.4740;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:00Z--
PT01H00M
While this is dead easy to fix, it may cause some software already
written to use the current method to fail so this is forewarning
that this bug will be fixed soon.
3. Currently, the 2002 genre classification is being used instead
of the more recent 2004. While again something very easy to change
since they're very similar, this again could have issues for
software expecting the 2002.
Hi Hywel,
Would it be possible to generate a couple of feeds a day, maybe:
- stable: the current version (leave with same file naming convention)
- testing: about to become 'stable'
- unstable: new formats / changes
That way your not limiting new development by trying to stay
backwards compatible. And you can give people
some notice of when testing will become stable. I appreciate this is
probably quite a bit of extra work, but
I'm interested in getting the new genre's ASAP - the current ones
are, well, crap :)
Could you also see if it's possible to review the names, the mix of
upper case and lower case etc make them
look really bad if you display them directly and having to manually
edit them is a pain!
Are the 2004 classifications listed somewhere?
Cheers
Leo
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