Re: New data service for XMLTV

On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 12:31:39 +0000, Nick Morrott wrote:
  
> A happy and healthy 2022 to all XMLTV developers and users.
  
I can only echo that, and wish everyone a good new year.
  
> I'm not sure how much this would add to the project's existing
> European channel coverage, but before I go back to the Jo, was
> wondering if anyone had any comments?
  
Looks to be a good start to a useful service.

From a tech perspective the data fails DTD validation (some of the elements don't follow the DTD order), but that's trivial. And the 'tv' element could be plumped out with a few attributes (e.g. source info). And adding the 'channel' element would enable inclusion of the channel's textual name, which a lot of downstream apps use.

The data could do with a little massaging - e.g. to remove executive producers from the description - I guess he's just passing on the data as received from the TV companies.

Presumably the 'credits' (i.e. cast) is a paid-for ("donation") addition, which is a shame, and detracts from the usefulness of the service. Or perhaps that's just not in his data feed from the tv companies.

From a more general perspective it will be good to have a european alternative to Gracenote who, as we know, have little interest in non-US channels.

Cheers,
Geoff