XML enhancement request about epg123

[garyan2]

I didn't know anyone was maintaining the xmltv.dtd. Thanks for that.

So, actor roles are already included in the xmltv. Actor images are not. The SD API says they may be available but it never worked in the past. I'll check to see if it is working again at some point. I'll need to do some coding first to even try.

The programme image element is new(ish). I question if there is anything out there that uses it. My xmltv already provides the images (icons) in 4 formats; 2x3, 3x4, 4x3, and 16x9. I know emby at least uses the different formats available but don't know about any others. For movies, I only provide the 2x3 poster but could expand that.

The xmltv also already provides the star-rating for movies. Star rating for episodes is kinda useless since it is really an overall star rating for the series.

[warrentc3]

Any thoughts regarding a potential trakt, tmdb, or mdblist integration for actors, images, ratings?
tvdb does have a fair amount of actor images too.

The way I read the xmltv.dtd is that star-ratings applies per programme, so in theory, it could be per episode... but that's a lot of data to chew, that tends to change and would be troublesome to maintain a cache.

[warrentc3]

There's also this tidbit...

Systems proposed in 2013 to refer to common metadatabases in a
common way:
'themoviedb.org' with the content 'movie/1234' to refer to a movie,
'thetvdb.com' with the content 'series/123456' to refer to a series,
'thetvdb.com' with the content 'episode/123456' to refer to one episode
of a series and 'imdb.com' with the content 'title/tt123455' to refer to
a movie, series or episode.

-->

[garyan2]

Checked celebrity images from SD and they do work. There is a big problem though. I could check for images for everyone, but I would have to request each celebrity individually. For a simple lineup that I download, with just 35 stations for 14 days, it has 26427 people and each would need a request to SD. Of course I could cache the links, but to what benefit? What program would use the celebrity links?

I used to populate 'themoviedb.org' and 'thetvdb.com' info in the xmltv, but that was when SD provided that cross reference before tvdb went subscription based.

So hypothetically, if I use all these other sources to add all kinds of additional data and image links, what are you going to do with an xmltv file that is 10-20X larger than what a normal consumable file would be? What would use all that data? I have no interest in duplicating tvdb, tmdb, tvmaze, etc into a very inefficient format such as an xmltv file.