So https://sportklub.rs/tv-program/ has this "Live" tag on each Live sport event as any others sport's channel EPG webpage. On this website they say it "Direktno" (Eng. "Directly") but nonetheless this is same thing as "Live".
I have one program which can turn any desired text string into "Live" so in this case I would make every "Direktno" tag into "Live" to be displayed in EPG.
And result would be something like this: "LIVE: Football - Team 1 vs Team 2".
At the moment Siteinis sportklub.rs. & sportklub.hr are not configured to grab "Live" tag?
Thanks in advance!
WE have also ArenaSport channels (UŽIVO) https://www.tvarenasport.com/tv-program
So we need new ini and this word UŽIVO in own tag...
And of course in all languages: slovenian, serbian, croatian, bosnian...
Thank you @kvanc...can you please update both ini (sportklub and arenasport)
The "premiere" tag often used as "Live" or "First shown" is already in the siteini's (sportklub,tvarena,etc etc).
'Premiere'. Different channels have different meanings for this
word - sometimes it means a film has never before been seen on TV in
that country, but other channels use it to mean 'the first showing of
this film on our channel in the current run'. It might have been
shown before, but now they have paid for another set of showings,
which makes the first in that set count as a premiere!
So this element doesn't have a clear meaning, just use it to represent
where 'premiere' would appear in a printed TV listing. You can use
the content of the element to explain exactly what is meant.
Reference:
https://github.com/XMLTV/xmltv/blob/master/xmltv.dtd
Yes exactly this! I am sry if I made misunderstanding! :( When an sport event is Live there is obviosly an "Live" element in website's TV Guide. Check the attached image, this is from Sportklub.rs "DIREKTNO" shows is an event Live or not. And yeah even if it's represented as category element that's still great and exactly what we need. Wherever is this "Live" placed it's usable.
For example tvarenasport.com has this LIVE in desctiption, example: "Football (LIVE)."
And then after grabbing I use program called IPTVBoss to process grabbed EPG into showing "LIVE" in every programme title.
The premiere tag in xmltv indicates a movie, (or even shows or games) not shown before which is applicable for "live" events. The opposite of previous-shown.
It is clear that in standard XMLTV a "live" tag doesn't exsist yet,as kvanc already mentioned, then of course everything can be modified and (L) or whatever can be added to other elements i.e. title, description, etc.etc.( i would not reccomend category as in many site indicate the type of sport i.e. soccer,tennis...)
PS
Sportklub.rs modified to have (LIVE) at the end of description, togheter with premiere tag.
Thank you so much to @kvanc and @mat8861 for updating sportklub.rs I appreciate your patience and understanding.
From now on, when we grab sportklub.rs channels, if an sport even is LIVE, we will see "(LIVE)." in Description. That's exactly what we needed all this time. Exactly the same tvarenasport.com ini has support for already.
And now I will show you an example of what exactly most of WG+ users want to achieve. Or, at least just me?
Ok, so now when we have updated sportklub.rs ini we will have "LIVE" in Description as already said, check pic 1.
After grabbing I am processing EPG.xml through program called IPTVBoss all automatically. What this program will do is taking the "(LIVE)." from Descritpion and it will make it into "LIVE" but it will place it in programme name. Check pic 2. It actually removes "(LIVE)." from Description and it moves it and turns it into "Live". I wasn't able to paste this special characters here I'm using for "Live" but nevermind you see the characters I use in Pic 3 and 4.
The result in EPG.xml is this, check pic 3.
And when we apply this EPG.xml into our .m3u file any IPTV app will display our sportklub.rs EPG like this, check pic 4.
I hope you now understand the importance of support for "LIVE" in EPG. I am applying same method to tvarenasport.com, to uk-sky.com for BT Sport channels, as well to some other Sport channels. If I'm not mistaking I think none Ex-yu Sport channel are missing "Live" anymore.
Thanks again!