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

[Ed A. <ed...@me...>]

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Steve Vibert wrote:

[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).

Have a look at the <category> elements: I know that at least some of
those programme types you mentioned are written as categories.  The
category names aren't standardized but you should be able to do
something.

>Is this something that's missing in XMLTV but present somewhere in
>the Zap2It listings?

You can answer this question yourself by browsing zap2it.com and
by viewing the XML.

>If so, would you consider adding the appropriate tags to a future
>release of XMLTV?

Yes, if you can show an example of where the information is missing
from the XML output we can work out a way to add it.  In the long
term.

>Also, can xmltv.exe be called from a path different than the calling
>app?

>C:\PROGRA~1\TELEGU~1\xmltv.exe C:\PROGRA~1\TELEGU~1\tv_grab_na
>--listings C:\PROGRA~1\TELEGU~1\20030105.xml --days 1 --offset 0
>
>Unfortunately, this is completely ignored-no errors, nada, zip???

Hmm.  It shouldn't do _that_ but anyway you are calling it wrong; the
program name is just 'tv_grab_na', no path needed because it is not a
filename.

Also try changing the --listings filename to something simple, I'm
sure that isn't the problem but it helps anyway to rule it out.

>Doing this.
>
>C:\PROGRA~1\TELEGU~1\xmltv.exe tv_grab_na --listings
>C:\PROGRA~1\TELEGU~1\20030105.xml --days 1 --offset 0
>
>*only* works if tv_grab_na is located in the same path as the calling
>app. Otherwise, I get the following error:
>
><SNIP>
>
>C:\PROGRA~1\TELEGU~1\xmltv.exe: config file './tv_grab_na' does not
>exist, run -config

Yes, because Windows doesn't always have a 'home directory' for each
user the grabbers will look in the current directory instead.  Try
setting the environment variable HOME to where the config file
tv_grab_na lives.

Or better, give the --config-file argument to the grabber.

>C:\PROGRA~1\TELEGU~1\tv_grab_na is not a valid command.

This is the same error discussed above.  Just give the name of the
'program', no path needed.

-- 
Ed Avis <ed...@me...>