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The data I posted yesterday was an extract of my mythconverg database. I only pasted some columns because most information like description, starttime, endtime, ... will be useless in this case. But here is a little extract from my original epg data file that is used with the mythfilldatabase to get the data into mythconverg:

Code:

<programme start="20100113225000" stop="20100114002000" channel="wdr">
        <title lang="de">Tatort</title>        
        <sub-title lang="de">Acht Jahre sp&#xE4;ter</sub-title>        
        <category lang="de">Spielfilm</category>
        <genre lang="de">Krimi</genre>
        <date lang="de">1973</date>
        <video>
        <aspect>4:3</aspect>
        </video>
        <credits>
        <director>Wolfgang Becker</director>
        <actor>Max Mairich (Direktor)</actor>
        ...
        </credits>        
        <desc lang="de">Kurzkritik: ...</desc>    
</programme>
<programme start="20100115200000" stop="20100115201500" channel="wdr">
        <title lang="de">Tagesschau</title>        
        <category lang="de">Film</category>
        <genre lang="de">Nachrichten</genre>
        <date lang="de">2010</date>
        <audio>
        <stereo>Stereo</stereo>
        </audio>
        <video>
        <aspect>4:3</aspect>
        </video>
    </programme>

First one is marked as "Spielfilm" (movie) in my epg but will be stored as "Original Language" in mythconverg. Second one is a news show that is marked "Film" (short word for movie) and marked as "movie" in mythconverg.

Here's an extract of mythconverg program table (all columns now. sorry, if it is unreadable):

Code:

'chanid', 'starttime', 'endtime', 'title', 'subtitle', 'description', 'category', 'category_type', 'airdate', 'stars', 'previouslyshown', 'title_pronounce', 'stereo', 'subtitled', 'hdtv', 'closecaptioned', 'partnumber', 'parttotal', 'seriesid', 'originalairdate', 'showtype', 'colorcode', 'syndicatedepisodenumber', 'programid', 'manualid', 'generic', 'listingsource', 'first', 'last', 'audioprop', 'subtitletypes', 'videoprop'
1259, '2010-01-13 22:50:00', '2010-01-14 00:20:00', 'Tatort: Acht Jahre später', '', 'Fernsehfilm Deutschland 1974', 'Original Language', 'tvshow', '0000', 0, 0, '', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, '', , '', '', '', '', 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, '', '', ''
1515, '2010-01-11 20:00:00', '2010-01-11 20:15:00', 'Tagesschau', '', '', 'film', 'movie', '2010', 0, 0, '', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, '212613461', , '', '', '', 'MV212613461', 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, '', '', ''

Again, I don't want you to fix my epg problems;-). I think I could manage this with different storage groups in mythtv and then have a little branch in your script that will ask for the directory name and take this to decide if it is a movie, a tvshow or whatever. I don't expect you to put something like this in your script because it seems to be a very special problem. So I will hijack this in my local copy.

The whole idea of using an NFO file is for shows with no episode or movie information

That's exactly what I was talking about. I want to import information like title, subtitle, description, actors, ... that is already stored in my epg data into XBMC database if the scraper can't find it at his online source. I tried this with some of my unscrapable shows and it seems to work as I expect it. I only have to provide a unique Series and Episode number that I am sure of that it's not existing for another episode. I tested something like S01E10000 and it was imported without any problem. Thank you very much for this usefull information! I did not know about nfo files before...