Re: _uk_bleb (was: call for release?)

On 4 July 2015 at 08:57, Karl Dietz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04.07.2015 02:07, Nick Morrott wrote:
>>
>> ii) I'm going to have another quick look at _uk_bleb (and
>> tv_cat/XMLTV::cat/XMLTV::catfiles) to try and resolve the
>> 'notadditive' issue.
>>
>> The 'sorterror' duplicate programme issue should now be fixed after
>> updating Grab_XML.pm.
>>
>> This work is not urgent, it just would be nice to resolve.
>>
> When I looked into that I found that the duplicate program is in the
> source data (last program of day N and first program of day N+1), but
> did not find their server source code to fix the data generation.

I've already contacted the upstream bleb.org maintainer so hope that
the source data can be normalised to provide 24hr blocks of
programming for each day.

> IIRC client side filtering was hard because the duplicate is not
> guaranteed (e.g. channel not running 24/7) to be present.

Duplicates should now be removed[1] from single multiple-day listings
retrievals, so I think it's reasonable to say almost all uk_bleb users
will be unaffected by the notadditive issue.

[1] the validator site seems to be down as I write this, so I can only
check this locally at the moment.

My preferred strategy would be to look at modifying XMLTV::cat and
XMLTV::catfiles and remove duplicate programmes when seen. Overlapping
programmes would not be affected.

Thanks,
Nick

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