ZAXMLTV - XMLTV for South Africa
by Robert Botha
 
Latest XMLTV was created 2008-11-18
 
2008-11-18 08:05 SAT - UPDATE:
Good news. I've managed to adjust the grabber and parser to work with the new DSTV guide. Latest XMLTV is now available. As usual, shout if there are problems with it.
 
2008-11-17 07:50 SAT - UPDATE:
The dstv guide's changed again. I'm busy working on updating the grabber. Will post back here when it's done.
 
2008-11-11 09:45 SAT - UPDATE:
I've changed the enconding for the XML file to UTF-8 to cater for the special characters in some programmes. I've also fixed the sub-title grabbing. If anyone's got issues with these changes, especially the UTF-8 change, let me know.
 
2008-11-10 07:50 SAT - UPDATE:
For all those people with MythTV systems, have a look at this MythTV IR transceiver. It's built by a South African. I don't have one myself but I'd like to hear from people with PVRs whether this device is working.
 
2008-11-08 13:50 SAT - UPDATE:
Fixed a bug in the episode-num parsing. All E0 entries caused blank tags.
 
2008-08-19 08:10 SAT - UPDATE:
I've updated the XMLTV to now include episode numbering according to the xmltv_ns spec (with some changes) and episode titles where available. The changes to xmltv_ns was to NOT make use of the zero indexed numbering scheme since it didn't make sense for ongoing series that are numbered by the year of production. The soapies and sport programmes tend to do this. As usual, if there are problems, let me know.
 
2008-08-15 21:44 SAT - UPDATE:
You might have noticed a few updates in the past week. That's because I rewrote the grabber and parser from scratch in .NET. It's taken a few iterations, but the new grabber and parser is much more flexible than the previous one. There are still small changes that I want to make in the weeks to come. I've updated the channels list to include all channels that I could map to decoder channel numbers. I'm very impressed with mono, didn't have any problem executing the .NET code on my linux box. Anyways, if you pick up issues with the new XML. Please let me know so I can have a look at it.
 
2008-08-14 20:25 SAT - UPDATE:
Thanks for everyone's help. I think the majority of the isssues with the new parser has been sorted. I've updated the schedules. Please test and let me know.
 
2008-08-11 21:32 SAT - UPDATE:
Ok, it took a little longer than I anticipated, but I decided to rewrite the parser from scratch. The latest schedules are now available. Please download and let me know if there are any problems.
 
2008-08-05 06:53 SAT - UPDATE:
There's a problem with the XML feed at the moment. I know what changed but haven't had time to update the grabber. Will try and fix it tonight.
 
 
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