Hi Peter,
I sent a series of emails explaining this that should solve the
problem. The issue is not with tv_sort, but a change in North American
listings that is fixed in recent pre releases of Freevo, including
1.3.2pre1
Aubin
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:30:34PM -0400, Peter Howell wrote:
> I'm not getting the error message from tv_sort, but it's still not
> fixing the entries with no stop date. Could it be broken? I haven't
> had time to do more than a cursory look at the code at this point.
>
> Peter
>
> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 02:19, Charles wrote:
> > > 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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