Bugs item #884936, was opened at 2004-01-26 18:17
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Category: tv_grab_na
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tom (tcchou71)
>Assigned to: Ed Avis (epaepa)
Summary: No end time for last show of each day
Initial Comment:
I am running the latest available version of xmltv
(0.5.27) under Windows 2000 and I've noticed that the
last show of the day consistently lacks a "stop" time.
Here is the .XML line for the second-to-last program of
the day (which is listed correctly):
<programme start="20040123213000 -0500"
stop="20040123233000 -0500"
channel="C2wgbh.zap2it.com">
Compare this with the line for the last program of the
day, which starts at 11:30pm, but lacks the "stop="
clause.
<programme start="20040123233000 -0500"
channel="C2wgbh.zap2it.com">
For me, this causes problems in ShowShifter and
TVGuide (version 0.4.3.12 from SourceForge).
ShowShifter does not display the badly formatted show
at all, while TVGuide shows it, but with the wrong
duration. As far as I can tell, this problem occurs with
every channel on every day.
Any help would be much appreciated,
- Tom
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>Comment By: Ed Avis (epaepa)
Date: 2004-01-26 19:43
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The problem is that the stop time is not known. If you
filter the listings file through tv_sort, it will guess
missing stop times by picking the next start time on the
same channel (it's strange that a sort program should add
this, but it does). However there will still be an unknown
stop time at the very end of the listings.
The programs you mentioned which have trouble displaying the
programme with missing stop time need to be fixed.
Unfortunately, for some listings sources the stop time isn't
always known - that's life. The XMLTV format allows for
this by making 'stop' optional, and this is documented in
the DTD.
I hope that tv_sort adds most of the missing times
correctly; remember they are guessed, not real data from the
site, and that is why they are left out of the normal
grabber output. (If you don't know something, it's better
to leave it out than to guess.) Please send mail to the
xmltv-users list (or file a support request if you like) if
you have trouble using tv_sort.
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