[mriksman]

I am testing EPG.Ninja's guide data against VBox PVR Client.

The XML File has;

Code:

<date>20131011</date>
                        <category lang="en">Reality</category>
                        </programme>

When viewed in PVR IPTV Simple Client, it shows correctly. But in the VBox PVR Client, it shows as Other/Unknown

I looked at the code, and whilst I am no programmer.... it looks like it picks up categories?

Code:

// Categories. Skip "movie" and "series" since most people treat categories
  // as genres
  for (element = xml->FirstChildElement("category");
    element != NULL; element = element->NextSiblingElement("category"))
  {
    auto *category = element->GetText();
    if (!category)
      continue;

    std::string genre(category);
    if (genre == "movie" || genre == "series")
      continue;

    m_categories.push_back(genre);
  }

What is going wrong?

[mriksman]

The issue is; this m_category isn NOT what is used to show/determine Genre. In the PVR Stalker Client, it then runs these additional steps;

Code:

p.extra.genreType = EPGGenreByCategory(p.categories);
p.extra.genreDescription = StringUtils::Join(p.categories, ", ");

This does the Genre mapping, as well as creating the list of Genres (you'll often see multiple Genre names in PVR Stalker Client).