[mythtvnz] EPG title processing

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Wed Jul 30 12:29:14 BST 2008


On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:21:57 +1200, you wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>It's been bugging me for a while now and I'm thinking of adding a regex
>to the title processing that we do to catch "^All New (.*)" and replace
>it with $1 i.e.
>
>"All New Simpsons" -> "Simpsons"
>
>I'm posting here as this has the possibility of breaking people's
>scheduled recordings (if they use the epg.pvr.geek.nz feed).
>
>Any comments please post here.
>
>On a related note, I added a processor to catch the HD flag that Sky
>have been putting in their data for the last while. Of course this won't
>mean much if you're not receiving it in HD but I thought it may be of
>use to some.
>
>Cheers,
>
>hads

We need to lobby the government to get them to legislate for proper
EPG on all digital services.  With a goodly fine for each idiocy like
"All new".  Say one day without advertising for each offence, or at
least $20,000.

Proper EPG should include series/episode numbers if at all possible.



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