> Configuration: New RH 9 install & Freevo 1.3.1
> tv_sort,v 1.21 2003/04/03 07:23:49
>
> When I tv_sort my xml listing per the docs for
North
> America, I get this error:
>
> parameterless "use IO" deprecated at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/XML/Writer.pm line
16
> Name "Log::TraceMessages::On" used only once:
> possible
> typo at /usr/bin/tv_sort line 149.
>
> Both the original and the sorted files report as
> corrupted by freevo.
>
> I have only ONE channel setup in the local.conf.py
> file
>
> I searched the freevo-users for this, did not find
a
> match.
>
> Thanks for an interesting project !
>
> Charles
>
> __________________________________
After some more experimentation, I have some tips on
troubleshooting the TV Guide corrupt problem. (This
does raise some other issues.)
1). Here is a valid TV_CHANNELS entry from my
local_conf.py
TV_CHANNELS = [('2 KASA','KASA 2','2'),
('4 KOB', 'KOB 4', '4')]
The first entry '2 KASA' is critial and must match
the
entry
in the listings_<date>.xml or TV.xml file ! The
second
'KASA 2' is what you want freevo to display on the
grid as the channel name, and of course the last
entry
is the real channel number to address your tuner
card.
Don't forget the left and right []'s
2). I also edited out all but 2 of the channels in
the
.xmltv/tv_grab_na.conf file, and here is a portion:
# config file: tv_grab_na 2.20030426
#
# this file is generated by running tv_grab_na
--configure
# the only change you should make is prefixing
'channel:' lines
# with a '#' to signal that they should be ignored
during the
# grab step
#
retry limit: 2
retry delay: 30
zip code: 87105
provider: 70796 # "Source" - "City"
channel: 2 KASA
#channel: 3 QVC
channel: 4 KOB
#channel: 5 KNME
#channel: 6 KWBQ
<snip>
After working with a download of ONE or TWO
channels,
and still getting TV Guide corrupt messages, I found
if I deleted any program that had a start time but
no
end time, the Guide was no longer considered
corrupt.
This program was usually the last program of the
day,
usually starting at 23:??
To manually delete the "offending program", you must
delete all lines in TV.xml or listings_<date>.xml
file
between a program's <programe start... and the
</programme> that does not have both a start time
and
an end time.
Here's an example of a single program listing (with
a
stop time):
<programme start="20030610010000 MDT"
stop="20030610020000 MDT" channel="2 KASA">
<title>KASA Fox 2 News at 9</title>
<category>News</category>
<subtitles type="teletext" />
</programme>
Most programs have more lines, news programs tend to
have the fewest.
I tried using the tv_sort, but this did not prevent
the TV guide corrupt messages and indeed posts an
internal error message about a possible typo in
tv_sort itself at line 149.
I do not know how to fix this in an automated way,
but I think it would involve working with the next
days listings as you approach midnight.
I also did some compares/troubleshooting with a Java
app called Freeguide, which I loaded on a windows
platform with Java 1.4.0. This app also downloads
the
very same xmltv data and displays it on a grid
something like freevo. You could use Freeguide to
learn from or even assist in downloading data for
freevo !
Freeguide does not process the downloaded listings
and
as you pass midnight, it just opens the next day's
xml
file and you could at least pinpoint the end time of
the current program by using the start time of the
next program on the same channel. Admittedly
Freeguide
does not cross midnight seamlessly, something that
freevo probably needs to be able to do.
I think the use of a single TV.xml file will not be
practical for freevo for a couple of reasons: not
knowing the stop time of a program that crosses
midnight, and attempting to record a program farther
in the future than today.
Hope this info is of assistance.
Charles
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