Re: [Xmltv-users] Show type tag and command line parms questions

[Jerry V. <je...@ma...>]

--On Sunday, January 05, 2003 8:27 PM -0500 Steve Vibert 
<ste...@te...> wrote:
> First, thanks to all involved in this great project.  I'm currently
> running version 0.5.5 for win32 using tv_grab_na.  Unless I've missed it,
> there doesn't appear to be any way to determine the "type" of programming
> (Movie, SitCom, News, Infomercial, etc).  I'm putting together a Windows
> EPG Viewer front end and would like to be able to categorize the listings
> into groups based on the type of programming.  Is this something that's
> missing in XMLTV but present somewhere in the Zap2It listings? If so,
> would you consider adding the appropriate tags to a future release of
> XMLTV?
>

The _na grabber will fill in the <category> information in the programme
if it's given. For some locations zap2it may or may not provide much
for information in the way of categories.

feel free to register a request with zap2it to add more detailed
program category to the text listings. Mentioning you're using xmltv
probably won't help :)

enjoy
jerry

P.S. I'll assume Robert's response to the rest of your questions cleared
things up.