Singapore Windows Media Center Info

Small Mediacorp update to help with episode recording…

Alex — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:20:59 +0000

Just updated the mediacorp descriptions (those that are available) to better split apart the Program name (title) Episode info (subtitle) and description…

This should make it easier for episodic recordings – you can check out the ini files or just modify your own to look like this after the URL= entry:

title=1;5
start=2
stop=3
description=4
category=6

Remember this is ONLY for Mediacorp – NOT for starhub channels!

Enjoy…

Updated Ini files with subtitle handling including ep nos and ep titles

Alex — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:27:40 +0000

Just updated the ini files to include additional columns of information including Episode numbers and titles. This is just what we need for proper tv ep recording for starhub channels.

http://www.sgmce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3&p=3#p3

Starhub Episode Numbers in Singapore EPG for TVXB!

Alex — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:22:13 +0000

Thanks to ralphy who alerted to me to a new source, I have modified the scraper to include episode data and grenres!

Hurraah!

I modded the scraper to include 2 new columns (for episode and genre) for those that know what they are doing.

Also, I know most of you dont care about fancy configurations (nor do I to be honest!) I have automatically included the ‘episode’ field in the descriptions of the programmes. I know we have a few hundred people using this that might like episode data!

If you are a purist and want to separate your episodes from the descriptions, you can turn this OFF off if you use this flag in your tvxb.ini file:

episodeInDescriptions=false

For example:

[STARSports]
service=STAR Sports
channel=273
url=http://www.sgmce.com/tvxb_starhub.php?channelId=21&date=[day=yyyymmdd]&detailedDescriptions=false
start=3
stop=4
title=1
description=2

This way people can turn off the episode number for channels where its irrelevant (say for sports programmes where starhub insists on numbering episodes)

Let me know if you are using this!

Alex

Mediacorp EPG for Singapore now has Descriptions!

Alex — Sat, 22 May 2010 19:00:47 +0000

Just updated the Medacorp scraper to include Descriptions for CH5 and CH8!

Feedback & alternate sources for content welcome.

Download TVXB.ini files for StarHub & Mediacorp

Alex — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:42:06 +0000

Looking for a way to get your EPG updated through tvXB?

I moved the links and information from this blog post to a thread in the new forum. You can download the ini files and see what others recommend from there: http://www.sgmce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3

Full set of 130+ channels from starhub & Mediacorp 5/8/CNA: http://www.sgmce.com/tvxb_SG_Win7.iniPartial set of 40+ channels that we watch & I have visually verified in my EPG over several days:
http://www.sgmce.com/tvxb_SG_Tested_Win7.ini

Information for Windows MCE users in Singapore

Alex — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:54:34 +0000

I’m an MCE user since the days of XP MCE in Singapore and have always struggled with the zero-support for/from our local providers! With the recent change by both Mediacorp (switching from their old EPG to the new xinmsn ajax guide) and now with Starhub screwing with all of our lives mixing up all the channels and launching a new guid of their own) I was stuck without a guide for my windows Vista and Windows 7 Media Centre setups and a very unhappy family…

I wrote a few server-side scripts to scrape the data from the new guides into a simple format that TVXB can read and now have my Mediacorp and Starhub EPG back up and running! I figure after all my searches others were hurting too and I set up this blog to share my quick fix with others. Hopefully I’ll also learn more about how others are using their MCE setups here in SG!

Next post: New TVXB.ini files for Vista and Windows 7 for Mediacorp & Starhub. Stay tuned!