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Great info here. I have an issue that you might be familiar with. I had about 10 favorites in my list for zapit. I added about 20 more to my favorites list under preferences and saved it. Now when I try to use that file PTVL does nothing. If I pick yesterday's guide file then the popup appears for me to choose the ID but when I select today's file then it doesn't do anything. No popup. I double clicked the xml from yesterday and it opened up in IE and looks all nice and structured. I double click the one from this morning and it open is in IE and there's no code structure. All the info just shows on two long lines not separated out. I can right click and Edit both files and they both appear to have good structure in there and the basic code looks the same to me. The only thing I have changed is to add more channels to the favorites on the Zap it site and the only thing I can think that would be different is that I've got a larger file now with the additional channels or that, with my original favorites, most of the channels show like this (808 - WTVWDT) and now a few of the additional channels that I have in my favorites look like this (861 - CNBC HD). I just chose the correct ones that match my channels from the Available Channels list to the left. Not a whole lot of room to mess up. Any thoughts? Thanks a lot and if I need to share either of the files then just let me know.
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Off the top of my head I am not sure. Is the xmltv file located on the kodi box or somewhere else on your network? In theory it shouldn't matter but I have had problems using a larger xmltv file in a network location.
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Both files are in the same folder on the Kodi box. I simply can't tell any difference other than the additional channel info in the new one. At first I thought it was a problem with the PTVL addon reading the file but since the newer one doesn't recognize as an xml file when I open it then I assume that is the issue.
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Try forcing UTF-8 encoding with zap2xml by adding the -U flag
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How many channels do you have in your xml?
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About 15 I think. I have a very small TV package
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nolos
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I was about the same but now I am at 40 here is my script for my bat file. Is that how yours reads?
zap2xml -u MYUSERNAME -p MYPASSWORD -d 10 -o "C:\zap2xml\TVguide.xml" -O -A -T -g -i "icons"
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got it! there was a switch in there -O that I guess doesn't work well anymore for what I was doing. I removed it...and the -g since it's not a valid switch anymore (but that wasn't causing the issue) and it all working now! Maybe it will help someone else. And thanks for the replies.
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Glad you got it figured out
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Hi!!
I'm a new with the XMLTV arena. I finally figured out how to create the XMLTV file with Webgrab++ and tv.com. Now where does one get the video streams to go along with the file? I have Googled and Binged till my fingers hurt...
Thanks for the help
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2016-12-26, 06:34
(This post was last modified: 2016-12-26, 06:35 by nickr.)
Kodi does not supply content. Find some legal content, and look for EPG data, not the other way round.
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That's what I wanted to know. Where does one obtain the free legal content?
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Hdhomerun prime with FiOS here. I have about 350 channels but disable all but about 100.
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