TVB Pearl no longer works, multiple "skipped show without a title" errors

mat8861 wrote:

Updated siteini.pack

Thank you very much!
Will give it a try tonight, much appreciated.
k.

jksmurf wrote:

mat8861 wrote:
Updated siteini.pack

Thank you very much!
Will give it a try tonight, much appreciated.

Tried, works beautifully, thank you once again.

k.
k.

Hi,

Most of the shows here are OK, however there are some notable exceptions.
I include screenshots of some of these but in general they include:

(i) A number Prefix to a show series e.g. "22 Lethal Weapon #22" should just be "Lethal Weapon #22". I think what is happening is there is a Chinese Version followed by the English text but only the Chinese text gets stripped out.

(ii) Introductory or Advert-based Show Prefixes e.g. "Weekend Blockbuster:" or "Signature Monday:"

When I used TVxB (a very old, now deprecated xml stripper) it used to have a LeftClip and RightClip function (amongst others) which allowed you to stripd out all the text to the left or to the right of the first or last character or string you chose.e.g. above I would use either of the two strings. It also had a "text" substitution option. I include an ini file from that Program in the zip so you can see what I mean.

I am not sure if Web Grab Plus has a post-processing option so these could be added by the user as they changed (rather than to the ini, so it didn't have to be udpated all the time)?

Thanks for any help!

k.

Hi, was wondering if the devs had a chance to have a wee look at the issues with the titles on this one please?

Thanks a lot

k

Hi Mat

Thank you very much for having a look at the issues which are probably in some part, unique to dual language EPG sites. The author of TVxB actually lived where I live for while and recgonised the unique issues, which is probably why he developed these additional ways to parse and strip and substitute text. Actually for me it is important to have the details right as my PVR (NextPVR) schedules automatic recordings based on show names and gets all the metadata as well, so the show needs to have the correct text.

I had a look at the http://webgrabplus.com/download/utility/documented-configuration-files but the ability to easily left clip or right clip (eitehr the first or last instance), or to simply substitute text does not seem immediately apparent using Rex. I may be wrong here, but Rex apears to act more on the entire element rather than just the text?

I appreciate this is fairly intensive but the sites does not change that often and as as user I would be more than willing to go into the EPG myself, try to spot the anomalies and correct the small details using the simple tools in TVxB. The substitution examples above are simply catching both instances, one with a space after and without a space after the colon.

If you could show me how Rex or even suggest some other scripting mechanism that would allow me to make these changes, I'd appreciate it.

titlelclip=
titlelcliplast=
titlerclip=
titlercliplast=

substitution=

descriptionlclip=
descriptionlcliplast=
descriptionrclip=
descriptionrcliplast=

titleflip=

Cheers

k.