Tvheadend

Update: when I manually 'fake' a numerical episode, it does get added to the filename:

  <programme channel="bbc2" start="20110909230000 +0200" stop="20110909233000 +0200">
    <title lang="nl">QI</title>
    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">1.0.0/1</episode-num>
    <desc lang="nl">Stephen Fry plays I-Spy with Sandi Toksvig, Lee Mack, Jimmy Carr and Alan Davies.</desc>
  </programme>

The result:

Sep 09 22:57:31 dvr: QI.2011-09-09.23-00.S02E01 from adapter: "eth0" 

So my conclusion is that TVHeadend doesn't process the <episode-num system="onscreen"> tag.
Any ideas how to fix this?

Before applying this fix, please read the comment from Karl Dietz in the next post!
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I fixed it (using git-082e661).

In src/webui/static/app/dvr.js around line 60, change

    if(entry.chicon != null && entry.chicon.length > 0)
        content += '<img class="x-epg-chicon" src="' + entry.chicon + '">';

    content += '<div class="x-epg-title">' + entry.title + '</div>';
    content += '<div class="x-epg-desc">' + entry.description + '</div>';
    content += '<hr>'
    content += '<div class="x-epg-meta">Status: ' + entry.status + '</div>';

to

    if(entry.chicon != null && entry.chicon.length > 0)
        content += '<img class="x-epg-chicon" src="' + entry.chicon + '">';

    content += '<div class="x-epg-title">' + entry.title + '</div>';
    /* @@@@@ added entry.episode (= episode name / sub title) */
    content += '<div class="x-epg-desc"><b>' + entry.episode + '</b></div>';
    content += '<div class="x-epg-desc">' + entry.description + '</div>';
    content += '<hr>'
    content += '<div class="x-epg-meta">Status: ' + entry.status + '</div>';

to show the episode name in the dvr popup window.

In src/dvr/dvr_db.c around line 185, change

  if(cfg->dvr_flags & DVR_EPISODE_IN_TITLE) {

    if(de->de_episode.ee_season && de->de_episode.ee_episode)
      snprintf(output + strlen(output), outlen - strlen(output),
               ".S%02dE%02d",
               de->de_episode.ee_season, de->de_episode.ee_episode);

    else if(de->de_episode.ee_episode)
      snprintf(output + strlen(output), outlen - strlen(output),
               ".E%02d",
               de->de_episode.ee_episode);
  }

to

  if(cfg->dvr_flags & DVR_EPISODE_IN_TITLE) {

    if(de->de_episode.ee_season && de->de_episode.ee_episode)
      snprintf(output + strlen(output), outlen - strlen(output),
               ".S%02dE%02d",
               de->de_episode.ee_season, de->de_episode.ee_episode);

    else if(de->de_episode.ee_episode)
      snprintf(output + strlen(output), outlen - strlen(output),
               ".E%02d",
               de->de_episode.ee_episode);

    /* @@@@@ added onscreen (= episode name / sub title) */
    else if(de->de_episode.ee_onscreen)
        snprintf(output + strlen(output), outlen - strlen(output),
               " - %s",
                de->de_episode.ee_onscreen);
  }

to put the episode name in the file name, when using the <episode-num system="onscreen"> tag.

Cheers!

Hi Icy,

you are fixing the wrong side of the interface. Your example shows wrong usage of the xmltv schema which will lead into problems with many consuming applications.

    <title lang="nl">Boston legal</title>
    <episode-num system="onscreen">Tabloid nation</episode-num>
    <desc lang="nl">Alan en Jerry verdedigen een man die ervan overtuigd is dat een realityshow schuldig is aan de dood van zijn dochter.</desc>
  </programme>

The episode-num system "onscreen" is for the textual rendering of the episode number, e.g. "#FFEE". See http://xmltv.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmltv/xmltv/xmltv.dtd?view=markup#l354
You episode title goes into the sub-title element. See http://xmltv.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmltv/xmltv/xmltv.dtd?view=markup#l236

The corrected example is as follows:

    <title lang="nl">Boston legal</title>
    <sub-title lang="nl">Tabloid nation</sub-title>
    <desc lang="nl">Alan en Jerry verdedigen een man die ervan overtuigd is dat een realityshow schuldig is aan de dood van zijn dochter.</desc>
  </programme>

Regards,
Karl

Hi Karl,

Thanks for your remark, I didn't realize that from the words "simply copy what the programme makers write in the credits".

In fact, I 'corrupted' the xmltv file on purpose. Originally, the episode title indeed was placed between <sub-title> tags. But as TVHeadend does not seem to support the sub-title tag, and I really wanted the sub-titles, I made this change.

But if sub-titles could be added to TVHeadend, that would definitely be the preferred solution.

Hi Icy,

I saw the other thread later.. yes using the sub-title element is preferred.

Regards,
Karl