Remove partial instance of show description from metadata txt file and add season

Meta data file contains a partial description of the trailing show. Include only the description of the show that appears in the filename. Eliminate the second instance of meta data that doesn't apply to this show.

Sorry; not understanding. Can you give an example?

showingBits : 921603 time : 2014-03-20T04:00:00Z vActor : Taylor|Eliza vActor : Turco|Paige vActor : McDonell|Thomas vActor : Goree|Eli vActor : Avgeropoulos|Marie vActor : Morley|Bob vActor : Hu|Kelly vActor : Larkin|Christopher vActor : Bostick|Devon vActor : Washington|Isaiah vActor : Cusick|Henry Ian showingBits : 0 colorCode : 04 description : Ninety-seven years after the planet Earth was destroyed, generations of survivors are faced with dwindling resources. vDirector : Nalluri|Bharat episodeTitle : Pilot vExecProducer : Miller|Matthew vExecProducer : Rothenberg|Jason vExecProducer : Nalluri|Bharat vExecProducer : Morgenstein|Leslie vExecProducer : Girolamo|Gina vProgramGenre : vProgramGenre : isEpisode : true originalAirDate : 2014-03-19T00:00:00Z vSeriesGenre : vSeriesGenre : vSeriesGenre : vSeriesGenre : seriesTitle : The 100 title : The 100 vWriter : Rothenberg|Jason tvRating : 04 showingBits : 4131 time : 2014-03-20T05:00:00Z showingBits : 0 colorCode : 04 description : Micah Ohlman, Cher Calvin, Vera Jimenez, Derrin Horton. vProgramGenre : isEpisode : false originalAirDate : 2005-03-24T00:00:00Z vSeriesGenre : vSeriesGenre : seriesTitle : KTLA 5 News at 10 title : KTLA 5 News at 10 startTime : 2014-03-20T03:59:58Z stopTime : 2014-03-20T05:00:02Z seriesID: SH01740398 displayMajorNumber: 405 callsign: KTLADT

the info from the second instance of showingBits to the end of the file appears to be for the tv show that followed the recording of "The 100- Pilot"

The file appears to contain two show records that begin with “showingBits”. Near the end you’ll see showingBits for the show that followed the recording of “The 100- Pilot”. The second instance seems to describe the news show that came on after “The 100”.

Maybe its easiest to just truncate the file beginning with the second instance of showingBits. Just a guess.

Thanks

On May 23, 2014, at 8:50 PM, Hugh Mackworth notifications@github.com wrote:

Sorry; not understanding. Can you give an example?

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showingBits : 921603 time : 2014-03-20T04:00:00Z vActor : Taylor|Eliza vActor : Turco|Paige vActor : McDonell|Thomas vActor : Goree|Eli vActor : Avgeropoulos|Marie vActor : Morley|Bob vActor : Hu|Kelly vActor : Larkin|Christopher vActor : Bostick|Devon vActor : Washington|Isaiah vActor : Cusick|Henry Ian showingBits : 0 colorCode : 04 description : Ninety-seven years after the planet Earth was destroyed, generations of survivors are faced with dwindling resources. vDirector : Nalluri|Bharat episodeTitle : Pilot vExecProducer : Miller|Matthew vExecProducer : Rothenberg|Jason vExecProducer : Nalluri|Bharat vExecProducer : Morgenstein|Leslie vExecProducer : Girolamo|Gina vProgramGenre : vProgramGenre : isEpisode : true originalAirDate : 2014-03-19T00:00:00Z vSeriesGenre : vSeriesGenre : vSeriesGenre : vSeriesGenre : seriesTitle : The 100 title : The 100 vWriter : Rothenberg|Jason tvRating : 04 showingBits : 4131 time : 2014-03-20T05:00:00Z showingBits : 0 colorCode : 04 description : Micah Ohlman, Cher Calvin, Vera Jimenez, Derrin Horton. vProgramGenre : isEpisode : false originalAirDate : 2005-03-24T00:00:00Z vSeriesGenre : vSeriesGenre : seriesTitle : KTLA 5 News at 10 title : KTLA 5 News at 10 startTime : 2014-03-20T03:59:58Z stopTime : 2014-03-20T05:00:02Z seriesID: SH01740398 displayMajorNumber: 405 callsign: KTLADT

Interesting. I take it this is happening to more than just this show. I'd like to see the XML that TiVo sent you for that show. Can you go through the following steps...

1) Find the "TiVo ID" for the The 100 Pilot. Just look in the upper window on the appropriate line. (If you're not showing the Tivo ID column, just right-click on the table title bar, and add that column. )

2) Use the Finder command "Go>Go To Folder..." and go to /tmp/ctivo_details

3) Lets say the TivoID is 12345, and your Tivo is named TivoName. Then look for the file named YourTivoName_12345_Details.xml and post the contents of that file.

thx

The reason I'm interested in seeing that file is that I'm thinking this is a TiVo issue rather than a cTivo one. It might be related to the shows' apparently overlapping on the same channel (note the startTime of the News is before the time of The 100 pilot).

I converted the file a while ago but I'll start another transfer now and grab the xml file again before it’s deleted.

Re: the advanced option to use [Title] - S[Season]E[EpisodeNumber] [Title] — this works perfectly for Plex and XBMC.

On May 23, 2014, at 10:17 PM, Hugh Mackworth notifications@github.com wrote:

The reason I'm interested in seeing that file is that I'm thinking this is a TiVo issue rather than a cTivo one. It might be related to the shows' apparently overlapping on the same channel (note the startTime of the News is before the time of The 100 pilot).

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FYI — im a Unix/Linux guy so no problem navigating files systems from a shell. Posted the old xml file on github. Will check back tomorrow. Let me know if you need anything else.

Ok, GitHub tried to parse that as Markdown, so you should add ``` before and after to prevent that. On the other hand, I was able to get it out by "editing" it. That's American Idol, so I'd need to have the matching txt file that shows the symptom in the .txt file.

Tell me you edited that comment, please? Because I'm sure I saw American Idol, and now it's The 100. And yes, that shows that the weird info is coming from TiVo (the XML file is directly loaded from the Tivo, and then cTivo generates the .TXT file from there).

Here's a formatted version. Note you have two elements in the "vActualShowing" section; one for The 100 and one for the news program... I've never seen this before, are you getting other programs with similar duplicate entries?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<<XMLS HEADER REMOVED FOR READABILITY>>
    <recordedDuration>PT1H2S</recordedDuration>
    <vActualShowing>
        <element>
            <showingBits value="921603"/>
            <time>2014-03-20T04:00:00Z</time>
            <duration>PT1H</duration>
            <program>
                <vActor>
                    <element>Taylor|Eliza</element>
                    <element>Turco|Paige</element>
                    <element>McDonell|Thomas</element>
                    <element>Goree|Eli</element>
                    <element>Avgeropoulos|Marie</element>
                    <element>Morley|Bob</element>
                    <element>Hu|Kelly</element>
                    <element>Larkin|Christopher</element>
                    <element>Bostick|Devon</element>
                    <element>Washington|Isaiah</element>
                    <element>Cusick|Henry Ian</element>
                </vActor>
                <vAdvisory/>
                <showingBits value="0"/>
                <vChoreographer/>
                <colorCode value="4">COLOR</colorCode>
                <description>Ninety-seven years after the planet Earth was destroyed, generations of survivors are faced with dwindling resources. Copyright Tribune Media Services, Inc.</description>
                <vDirector>
                    <element>Nalluri|Bharat</element>
                </vDirector>
                <episodeTitle>Pilot</episodeTitle>
                <vExecProducer>
                    <element>Miller|Matthew</element>
                    <element>Rothenberg|Jason</element>
                    <element>Nalluri|Bharat</element>
                    <element>Morgenstein|Leslie</element>
                    <element>Girolamo|Gina</element>
                </vExecProducer>
                <vProgramGenre>
                    <element/>
                    <element/>
                </vProgramGenre>
                <vGuestStar/>
                <vHost/>
                <isEpisode>true</isEpisode>
                <originalAirDate>2014-03-19T00:00:00Z</originalAirDate>
                <vProducer/>
                <series>
                    <isEpisodic>true</isEpisodic>
                    <vSeriesGenre>
                        <element/>
                        <element/>
                        <element/>
                        <element/>
                    </vSeriesGenre>
                    <seriesTitle>The 100</seriesTitle>
                </series>
                <showType value="5">SERIES</showType>
                <title>The 100</title>
                <vWriter>
                    <element>Rothenberg|Jason</element>
                </vWriter>
            </program>
            <tvRating value="4">PG</tvRating>
            <RatingList>
                <objectName/>
                <vRatings>
                    <element>
                        <objectName/>
                        <vAdvisory>
                            <element>16</element>
                            <element>14</element>
                            <element>12</element>
                        </vAdvisory>
                        <InternalRatingSystemId>2</InternalRatingSystemId>
                        <InternalRatingValueId>4</InternalRatingValueId>
                    </element>
                </vRatings>
            </RatingList>
        </element>
        <element>
            <showingBits value="4131"/>
            <time>2014-03-20T05:00:00Z</time>
            <duration>PT1H</duration>
            <program>
                <vActor/>
                <vAdvisory/>
                <showingBits value="0"/>
                <vChoreographer/>
                <colorCode value="4">COLOR</colorCode>
                <description>Micah Ohlman, Cher Calvin, Vera Jimenez, Derrin Horton. Copyright Tribune Media Services, Inc.</description>
                <vDirector/>
                <vExecProducer/>
                <vProgramGenre>
                    <element/>
                </vProgramGenre>
                <vGuestStar/>
                <vHost/>
                <isEpisode>false</isEpisode>
                <originalAirDate>2005-03-24T00:00:00Z</originalAirDate>
                <vProducer/>
                <series>
                    <isEpisodic>true</isEpisodic>
                    <vSeriesGenre>
                        <element/>
                        <element/>
                    </vSeriesGenre>
                    <seriesTitle>KTLA 5 News at 10</seriesTitle>
                </series>
                <showType value="5">SERIES</showType>
                <title>KTLA 5 News at 10</title>
                <vWriter/>
            </program>
        </element>
    </vActualShowing>
    <vBookmark/>
    <showing>
        <showingBits value="921603"/>
        <time>2014-03-20T04:00:00Z</time>
        <duration>PT1H</duration>
        <program>
            <vActor>
                <element>Taylor|Eliza</element>
                <element>Turco|Paige</element>
                <element>McDonell|Thomas</element>
                <element>Goree|Eli</element>
                <element>Avgeropoulos|Marie</element>
                <element>Morley|Bob</element>
                <element>Hu|Kelly</element>
                <element>Larkin|Christopher</element>
                <element>Bostick|Devon</element>
                <element>Washington|Isaiah</element>
                <element>Cusick|Henry Ian</element>
            </vActor>
            <vAdvisory/>
            <showingBits value="0"/>
            <vChoreographer/>
            <colorCode value="4">COLOR</colorCode>
            <description>Ninety-seven years after the planet Earth was destroyed, generations of survivors are faced with dwindling resources. Copyright Tribune Media Services, Inc.</description>
            <vDirector>
                <element>Nalluri|Bharat</element>
            </vDirector>
            <episodeTitle>Pilot</episodeTitle>
            <vExecProducer>
                <element>Miller|Matthew</element>
                <element>Rothenberg|Jason</element>
                <element>Nalluri|Bharat</element>
                <element>Morgenstein|Leslie</element>
                <element>Girolamo|Gina</element>
            </vExecProducer>
            <vProgramGenre>
                <element/>
                <element/>
            </vProgramGenre>
            <vGuestStar/>
            <vHost/>
            <isEpisode>true</isEpisode>
            <originalAirDate>2014-03-19T00:00:00Z</originalAirDate>
            <vProducer/>
            <series>
                <isEpisodic>true</isEpisodic>
                <vSeriesGenre>
                    <element/>
                    <element/>
                    <element/>
                    <element/>
                </vSeriesGenre>
                <seriesTitle>The 100</seriesTitle>
            </series>
            <showType value="5">SERIES</showType>
            <title>The 100</title>
            <vWriter>
                <element>Rothenberg|Jason</element>
            </vWriter>
        </program>
        <tvRating value="4">PG</tvRating>
        <RatingList>
            <objectName/>
            <vRatings>
                <element>
                    <objectName/>
                    <vAdvisory>
                        <element>16</element>
                        <element>14</element>
                        <element>12</element>
                    </vAdvisory>
                    <InternalRatingSystemId>2</InternalRatingSystemId>
                    <InternalRatingValueId>4</InternalRatingValueId>
                </element>
            </vRatings>
        </RatingList>
    </showing>
    <startTime>2014-03-20T03:59:58Z</startTime>
    <stopTime>2014-03-20T05:00:02Z</stopTime>
    <bitstreamFormat>
        <vFormat>
            <element>
                <vByte>
                    <base64>EjQAAwABAjoBywxXAAAADwAAAAQAAAACAAAAAwAAAA==</base64>
                </vByte>
            </element>
        </vFormat>
    </bitstreamFormat>
    <expirationTime>2014-03-22T04:00:00Z</expirationTime>
</TvBusMarshalledStruct:TvBusEnvelope>

Here’s the actual XML file. I didn’t edit anything.

Here’s a list of metadata files with two series titles:

I’m unavailable for the next 4 hours but happy to work with you on this.
I wrote a script called xmlgrep to find the opening tag. vActualShowing seems to appear once but i didn’t check all.

showingBits however appears multiple times sometimes. See my_metafiles.tgz. I can forward xml files when I return if you like.

Victor Johnson

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The files above were sent by email but it looks like all attachments didn't make it to the github posting.

Had some trouble with the drop and drag and editing of a prior posting so you probably received the wrong file first.

Reformatted copies of all 275 of my ctivo_details xml files and found appears multiple times in several files. This is the output of grep on the worst case ctivo_details xml example file.

     <seriesTitle>2014 Billboard Music Awards</seriesTitle>
      <seriesTitle>Eyewitness News 11:00PM</seriesTitle>
      <seriesTitle>Castle</seriesTitle>
    <seriesTitle>2014 Billboard Music Awards</seriesTitle>

In all cases, is the first one the correct one?

On May 24, 2014, at 2:07 PM, verticalscience notifications@github.com wrote:

The files above were sent by email but it looks like all attachments didn't make it to the github posting.

Had some trouble with the drop and drag and editing of a prior posting so you probably received the wrong file first.

Reformatted copies of all 275 of my ctivo_details xml files and found appears multiple times in several files. This is the output of grep on the worst case ctivo_details xml example file.
 <seriesTitle>2014 Billboard Music Awards</seriesTitle>
  <seriesTitle>Eyewitness News 11:00PM</seriesTitle>
  <seriesTitle>Castle</seriesTitle>
<seriesTitle>2014 Billboard Music Awards</seriesTitle>
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the first one always matches the converted filename

So, very interesting. I wrote an XSLT script to find cases where vActualShowing has more than one element and a batch file to go through the cached TiVo details. It appears that the elements include any shows that happen to be in the file and the is the one that is intended. I even found one very odd case where the file contained three episodes of a series, while it was supposed to be an unrelated three-hour movie. vActualShowing had all three episodes information, while had the movie. So even though TiVo knew it was the series, it somehow originally thought it was the movie.

Thus in your "The 100" case, the recording shows as starting at 03:59:58Z and stops at 05:00:02Z. With the show itself showing as starting at 2014-03-20T04:00:00Z, TiVo apparently decided it needed to document the last three seconds, which are the first three seconds of the following news program. Why it didn't feel the need to document the last 2 seconds of the previous show (the first 2 seconds of the recording), I don't know. It may be related to the fact that it thinks the total recording duration is 1 hr, 2 seconds. In researching this some more, it seems that if one specifies record padding at the beginning or end, these fields are provided.

So, my conclusion for the metadata purposes, we should be ignoring the vActualShowing and just using the data from the section. Thanks for finding this! The tivo->pytivo translation is inherited from iTiVo and has been unchanged for the last several years, and has been doing the inverse (ignoring the showing section). My guess is that pyTivo must use only the first instance of any metadata or it would have been noticed long ago.

The other interesting question is whether we can do that cropping thing you mentioned, as it does seem to indicate when there are a few seconds of another show. More experiments required here, although there may be a problem with any live shows that go longer than anticipated.

In case of future interest, I've included the debugging scripts below: Batch file:

#!/bin/bash
cd /tmp/ctivo_details
for f in * ; do
  XSL=$(xsltproc ~/Desktop/pytivo_txt3.xslt  "$f")
  if [[ "$XSL" ]]; then
    echo $f
    echo -e "$XSL"
    echo 
  fi
done

XSLT file

<stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<output method="text"/>

<template match="vActualShowing/element[position()>1]">
  <text></text>
  <apply-templates select = "/" mode = "foundOne" />
</template>

<template match="episodeTitle" mode = "foundOne">
  <value-of select="."/>
  <text> == </text>
</template>

<template match="seriesTitle" mode = "foundOne">
   <value-of select="."/>
  <text>
</text>
</template>

<template match="*">
<apply-templates />
</template>

<template match="text()">
</template>

<template match="text()" mode = "foundOne">
</template>

</stylesheet>

And below is the revised cTiVo pytivo_txt.xslt file. It should fix the multiple episode problem, and also hide the blank genre fields. It hasn't gone through much QA yet, but if you want to try this out, just replace your file /Applications/cTiVo.app/Contents/Resources/pytivo_txt.xslt with this one. (Probably on a backup copy of cTiVo.) Note this will NOT add the season/episode info; that is indeed missing and I've found the issue in the Obj-C source.

<stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<output method="text"/>

<template match="originalAirDate|episodeTitle|title|time|movieYear|seriesTitle|isEpisode|seriesId|episodeNumber|displayMajorNumber|callsign|displayMinorNumber|startTime|stopTime|partCount|partIndex">
  <value-of select="name()"/>
  <text> : </text>
  <value-of select="."/>
  <text>
</text>

</template>

<template match="description">
  <value-of select="name()"/>
  <text> : </text>
  <choose>
    <when test="contains(.,' Copyright Tribune Media Services, Inc.')">
      <value-of select="substring-before(.,' Copyright Tribune Media Services, Inc.')" />
    </when>
    <otherwise>
      <value-of select="." />
    </otherwise>
  </choose>
  <text>
</text>

</template>

<template match="showingBits">
  <value-of select="name()"/>
  <text> : </text>
  <value-of select="@value"/>
  <text>
</text>

</template>
<template match="tvRating|starRating|colorCode">
  <value-of select="name()"/>
  <text> : 0</text>
  <value-of select="@value"/>
  <text>
</text>

</template>

<template match="mpaaRating">
  <value-of select="name()"/>
  <text> : </text>
  <value-of select="substring(. , 1, 1)"/>
  <value-of select="@value"/>
  <text>
</text>

</template>

<template match="vActor|vGuestStar|vDirector|vExecProducer|vProducer|vWriter|vHost|vChoreographer|vProgramGenre|vSeriesGenre">
  <for-each select="element">
    <if test= "string(.)">
      <for-each select="parent::*">
        <if test="not(@id)">
          <value-of select="name()"/>
        </if>
        <value-of select="./@id"/>
      </for-each>
      <text> : </text>
      <value-of select="."/>
      <text>
</text>
    </if>
  </for-each>
</template>

<template match="vActualShowing">
</template>

<template match="*">
<apply-templates />
</template>

<template match="text()">
</template>

</stylesheet>

Testing revised copy here -> /Applications/cTiVo.app/Contents/Resources/pytivo_txt.xslt

Closed due to lack of response. Believed fixed, to include in 2.4.0

mackworth / cTiVo

Remove partial instance of show description from metadata txt file and add season #31