Question for Art

[hvs69]

Art,

A couple of days ago, you posted a link to your xmltv file for a question I asked.

Can you please post the commandline you use for downloading the xmltv file. It seems that the end-of-line character in your file is different than mine and that is creating a problem for me.

Thanks.

[art]

I have 2 lineups, one for OTA and one for cable... First to configure xmltv for cable:
c:\xmltv\xmltv.exe tv_grab_na_dd --configure --config-file=cable.dat --dd-data=dd.xml
providing of 'course that your xmltv.exe is in "c:\xmltv" folder. You will be asked some questions etc., now for your OTA lineup:
c:\xmltv\xmltv.exe tv_grab_na_dd --configure --config-file=antena.dat --dd-data=dd.xml
Now to download cable:
C:\xmltv\xmltv.exe tv_grab_na_dd --days 13 --output=cable.xml --config-file=cable.dat --dd-data=dd.xml
Next OTA:
C:\xmltv\xmltv.exe tv_grab_na_dd --days 13 --output=antena.xml --config-file=antena.dat --dd-data=dd.xml --reprocess
Next combine both into one file:
C:\xmltv\xmltv.exe tv_cat cable.xml antena.xml >xmltv.xml
This will download both lineups and combine them into one output file "xmltv.xml" for 13 days.

Hope that helps...

[hvs69]

Thanks.

I am not sure what is going on but we both download the data from the same source and yet your xml file works with xlobby and mine does not.

I have opened these files in the notepad and the only difference I see is when I open my file I see a nicely formatted file on the screen, whereas in your file the end-of-line character is some non-printable character (appears like a square on the screen) and there is no carriage return so all the tags are printed continuously on single line.

I have tried both --output switch and ">" redirect command to dump the file on my hard-drive, but cannot reproduce the same formatting as yours.

Let me know, if you think of something. Thanks again.

[art]

Formatting is due to the fact that my first file was created in Linux, so notepad probably has problems with reading it, but I downloaded new file in windows and of 'course notepad has no problems reading it this time... I tried it in XL and it is woking as well. Try downloading it and see if it's working for you.
On the other hand can you post your file?

[hvs69]

Thanks for all your help.

I am really stumped on this one. Please take a look at my file and your file in the "Notepad" aplication, and you will see what I am talking about.

Here is the link
http://rapidshare.de/files/9838713/dish.zip.html

[art]

Only difference I can see is time zone in start and stop times for given program, which leads me to my question: what version of xmltv are you using? I'm not really sure if that is the problem, but if you're using 0.5.41 (latest) try going back to 0.5.39...

[hvs69]

Art,

You were right on the money. Xlobby does not like the string "UTC" in the start & stop sign (which is the default setting in xmltv grabber). As soon as I changed it to a numerical value per my timezone, Problem Solved !!

Thanks a lot for your help.