New Oztivo xmltv guides Options

[John G]

I've done the the 'one month' free trial with ICE and it's worked seemlessly. Every channel scanned by Scheduler mapped perfectly to the ICE EPG. I've tried replicating this on my (new) laptop with the Oztivo EPG but with the same results as others are experiencing. At the end of my 'trial' period I may end up negotiating with ICE. If they want my business, they can apply the 50% discount which they seem to do frequently!
All things are negotiable.

[sold]

What's the trick that I'm missing here? (Probably staring me in the face, I'll concede!)

There's only three "real" channels on the Seven mux (Seven, Seven HD and 7TWO), the others are just a redirect to the main channel. Also Seven and Seven HD broadcast identical programming, so you really only need data for Seven and 7TWO (though the latter is missing from the Oztivo guides ATM).

[data_mine]

There's only three "real" channels on the Seven mux (Seven, Seven HD and 7TWO), the others are just a redirect to the main channel. Also Seven and Seven HD broadcast identical programming, so you really only need data for Seven and 7TWO (though the latter is missing from the Oztivo guides ATM).

7TWO now appear to have state based extensions.

e.g. I changed mine to 7TWO-ACT and there's data there. There's also -NSW -VIC etc...

[paul_ahb]

uryan,

any chance that you can update the regions so that 7two chanles are scraped again?

eg Tas 7two has become: 7TWO-Tas

thanks,
Paul

[sold]

Just a heads up that the guides appear to be borked again. Byremote has last updated 17th, locost7 on the 16th.

[adypete]

any news on this? i've swapped EPG's till this one is working again

[John G]

any news on this? i've swapped EPG's till this one is working again

What did you swap to?

[adypete]

http://forums.dvbowners.com/index.php?showtopic=8605

its only for melbourne tho

[Draffa]

Here in Brisbane, we're missing 7, 9, 10, and ONE.

[paul_ahb]

What did you swap to?

download my own. It was reasonably easy to setup, but I have not automated it yet:

http://www.epgstream.net/default.aspx?page...xmltv-guidepack
-begware

There might be a better product out there but this was just the first that I found and I was in a rush

Paul

[blackads]

I've done the the 'one month' free trial with ICE and it's worked seemlessly. Every channel scanned by Scheduler mapped perfectly to the ICE EPG. I've tried replicating this on my (new) laptop with the Oztivo EPG but with the same results as others are experiencing. At the end of my 'trial' period I may end up negotiating with ICE. If they want my business, they can apply the 50% discount which they seem to do frequently!
All things are negotiable.

FYI
IceTV is running a fathersday promotion for a years subscription at $49 (save $50) until midnight Sunday 5 September.

http://news.icetv.com.au/news/

(No association - I just found the deal and signed up)

[bazzaa]

Bazza, Would you upload (or add to your ~bazza/pub/ directory) the batch file and parameter file that you built for DVB Guide - I suspect then that it would be a simple matter of editing the local channel frequencies to get it working.

As I mentioned, there's a program that will generate the batch file for you, it's included with DV Scheduler. No other files are required (there's no parameters or options other than run on the command line). I used to run another program over the output to change the program descriptions on ch 9 and 7 to lower case, but DV Scheduler does that for you now.

But sure, here's the batch file, just insert your own frequencies and change the paths to suit (there's 8 channels here because we get both NSW and Qld commercial ones). It's dead simple.

You'll need to download DVB Guide as well, obviously.

@echo off
"C:\Program Files\DVBGuide\DVBGuide" -b7 -c767625 -e180 -o "C:\Program Files\DV Scheduler\data\xmltv\767625.xml"
"C:\Program Files\DVBGuide\DVBGuide" -b7 -c809625 -e180 -o "C:\Program Files\DV Scheduler\data\xmltv\809625.xml"
"C:\Program Files\DVBGuide\DVBGuide" -b7 -c585625 -e180 -o "C:\Program Files\DV Scheduler\data\xmltv\585625.xml"
"C:\Program Files\DVBGuide\DVBGuide" -b7 -c746625 -e180 -o "C:\Program Files\DV Scheduler\data\xmltv\746625.xml"
"C:\Program Files\DVBGuide\DVBGuide" -b7 -c725625 -e180 -o "C:\Program Files\DV Scheduler\data\xmltv\725625.xml"
"C:\Program Files\DVBGuide\DVBGuide" -b7 -c704625 -e180 -o "C:\Program Files\DV Scheduler\data\xmltv\704625.xml"
"C:\Program Files\DVBGuide\DVBGuide" -b7 -c788625 -e180 -o "C:\Program Files\DV Scheduler\data\xmltv\788625.xml"
"C:\Program Files\DVBGuide\DVBGuide" -b7 -c634625 -e180 -o "C:\Program Files\DV Scheduler\data\xmltv\634625.xml"
del "C:\Program Files\DV Scheduler\data\xmltv\ChannelInfo.xml"

[bazzaa]

Here in Brisbane, we're missing 7, 9, 10, and ONE.

If it's any help, mine would work for Brisbane, or anywhere within cooee of here, if that will get you out of a hole in the short term?

Look for the file xmltv.xm2

You really should try to generate your own though, it's extremely simple and removes dependency on external sources (plus it's completely free).

[Draffa]

You really should try to generate your own though, it's extremely simple and removes dependency on external sources (plus it's completely free).

I would, but OzTivo is a volunteer site, so I stay off their bandwidth as much as possible, apart from updating the guides via their web frontend.

[adypete]

Hi, any plans on adding 7mate and 9HD? 7mate obviously because its the new 7 channel, and 9HD because I've recently noticed 9HD is showing quite a different lineup to 9 digital and go

Actually, 9HD has renamed itself to GEM now it seems, I never heard about this happening

[paulS]

I'd also like to add my request for ABC24, 7mate and GEM. I'm in Wollongong (don't know if that's relevant).

No biggie though, thanks anyway.

[bazzaa]

I would, but OzTivo is a volunteer site, so I stay off their bandwidth as much as possible, apart from updating the guides via their web frontend.

Erm no, I meant generate your own from the free-to-air broadcast EPG using DVBGuide. It's ridiculously simple.

It's even simpler if you're using DV Scheduler, you already have the tool to create the batch file. Look in the data\xmltv folder for the tool called DVSDVBGuideBatch.exe

I haven't used the OzTivo guides in six forevers and there's no need to start doing so now if you're not.

[DrP]

From my perspective there is a darned good reason to use the oztivo guide data and that is it includes useful information such as program genre (sci-fi, drama etc), if its a movie or a series, if a series the episode title; season; episode number etc all in a sane machine readable form. Such information simply isn't available via the FTA guide in any meaningful way. For instance, the episode title - if it appears at all - is often jammed into the text description of the program in brackets, and perhaps the year and perhaps the cast in no particular order at all. That, to me, is about as useful as a chocolate tea pot.

To top it all off, the much vaunted 'freeview' guide is just as useless despite 'freeview' having to sit down at determine exactly what fields should be transmitted - ie, they could have if they wanted to, done it properly. In otherwords, the dearth of information in the transmitted guides and the machine-unfriendlyness of it is entirely intentional.

When the yourtv.com.au guide was rejigged and effectively turned into a disaster that doesn't work properly I set up to use the oztivo guide (I use it for Foxtel/Austar, not FTA since I couldn't care less about FTA) and haven't looked back. EPG collector can gather the Foxtel guide, but I am yet to set up to nab it myself to see if it contains the information I am after.

This post has been edited by DrP: Oct 18 2010, 05:54 PM

[Draffa]

uryan, any chance of getting the guide updated to cater for GEM-[state], 7mate, and 7TWO-[state]?

[DrP]

AFAIK GEM and 7mate are national (in terms of programming) so there really isn't a need to have state based guides. I think the same can be said of 7TWO too.

Has anyone noticed cases where different programming per state was shown?