Bugs item #902256, was opened at 2004-02-22 19:49
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Doug Edwards (tivolan)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: tv_grab_uk_rt Duplicate start times
Initial Comment:
If the radio times description includes something like:
including five News Update
or something like
Followed by five news at 9
Programme start and finish times overlap surrounding
programmes. I can see the logic in the case
of 'including', but not in the case of 'Followed by'.
For example:
Start of extract from xmltv file (not contiguous):
<programme start="20040222200000 +0000"
stop="20040222210000 +0000"
channel="channel5.co.uk" clumpidx="0/2">
<title lang="en">Back to Reality</title>
<programme start="20040222200000 +0000"
stop="20040222210000 +0000" .....
<title lang="en">five news at 9</title>
Finish of extract from xmltv file (not contiguous)
(that is, five news at 9 is shown as starting at 8 and
finishing at 9, the same timings as the programe it
followed)
Although I can see the logic in duplicating the timings if
it is 'included' in a programme, it would ne 'nice' to be
able to strip such duplicates out or for some flag to be
included in the xmltv file, perhaps denoting if it is
an 'including' or a 'followed by' case :-)
Start of extended contiguous extract from xmltv file:
<programme start="20040222200000 +0000"
stop="20040222210000 +0000"
channel="channel5.co.uk" clumpidx="0/2">
<title lang="en">Back to Reality</title>
<sub-title lang="en">Episode Eight</sub-title>
<desc lang="en">The ultimate reality show. For three
weeks a luxury mansion is home to 12 reality television
veterans competing for the chance to become King or
Queen of reality TV and win a cash prize for their chosen
charity. With their moves scrutinised by cameras in the
house they'll be subjected to a public vote from week
two sending one guest a day `back to reality'. Guests
include Jade Goody, Nick Bateman, Rik Waller, James
Hewitt and Ricardo.</desc>
<url>http://www.five.tv/backtoreality</url>
<subtitles type="teletext" />
</programme>
<programme start="20040222200000 +0000"
stop="20040222210000 +0000"
channel="channel5.co.uk" clumpidx="1/2">
<title lang="en">five news at 9</title>
</programme>
<programme start="20040222210000 +0000"
stop="20040222231500 +0000"
channel="channel5.co.uk" clumpidx="0/2">
<title lang="en">Demolition Man</title>
<desc lang="en">This pretension-free, futuristic
thriller comes pretty close to being Sylvester Stallone's
best ever picture. (Audio-described) Wisely keeping his
tongue stuck firmly in his cheek, Stallone plays a tough
cop whose unconventional methods land him in a
cryogenic prison. Decades later, he is defrosted to hunt
down an old sparring partner, the spectacularly
psychopathic Wesley Snipes (complete with blond
thatch), who has escaped from his deep frozen state
and is creating havoc in the now crime-free Los Angeles
(renamed San Angeles). Of the supporting cast, Sandra
Bullock has an early run at a role she would later perfect
in Speed, Denis Leary gets to deliver one of his thinly
disguised stand-up routines, while Nigel Hawthorne plays
the doctor overseeing this 21st-century Utopia.</desc>
<credits>
<director>Marco Brambilla</director>
<actor>Sylvester Stallone</actor>
<actor>Wesley Snipes</actor>
<actor>Sandra Bullock</actor>
<actor>Nigel Hawthorne</actor>
<actor>Benjamin Bratt</actor>
<actor>Bob Gunton</actor>
<actor>Glenn Shadix</actor>
<actor>Denis Leary</actor>
<actor>Grand L Bush</actor>
<actor>Steve Kahan</actor>
</credits>
<date>1993</date>
<url>http://www.radiotimes.com/film</url>
<subtitles type="teletext" />
<rating system="BBFC">
<value>15</value>
</rating>
<star-rating>
<value>4/5</value>
</star-rating>
</programme>
<programme start="20040222210000 +0000"
stop="20040222231500 +0000"
channel="channel5.co.uk" clumpidx="1/2">
<title lang="en">five News Update</title>
</programme>
<programme start="20040222231500 +0000"
stop="20040223011000 +0000"
channel="channel5.co.uk">
<title lang="en">Back to Reality</title>
<desc lang="en">Highlights from the day's events in
the show that brings together some of the biggest stars
of reality TV.</desc>
<url>http://www.five.tv/backtoreality</url>
<subtitles type="teletext" />
</programme>
Start of extended contiguous extract from xmltv file:
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>Comment By: Ed Avis (epaepa)
Date: 2004-02-22 20:24
Message:
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The key here is the 'clumpidx' attribute. This was added to
store listings where one programme follows another without
any clear boundary. In this case we know that Five News
follows Back to Reality, but the listings source doesn't
give a time when one ends and the next begins. It just
wedges them both into the same timeslot.
So one programme is given clumpidx 0/2 - that is, 0
programmes come before it in the timeslot out of 2 total -
and the second programme is clumpidx 1/2. When you look at
the start and stop times you must take clumpidx into account
if present.
It's messy, but the listings data is messy. I hope to
handle this a bit better in a newer version of the file
format, but the current version does work if you understand
what clumpidx means.
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