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Here is the tivo header for the movie.

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dlfl - thanks very much for this. I shall try it out when I get home from work. Looks like you were up late working on this - much appreciated!

Out of interest, I came across an old posting on the dealdatabase forum which indicates that a complete mapping of the genre codes to genre names is contained in file /tvlib/tcl/tv/dbEnum.tcl on a TiVo.

Someone went to the effort of extracting the complete genre mapping into an attachment which can be found at http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showpost.php?p=270555&postcount=18

although I am unable to read it for some unknown reason.

An earlier post in the same thread gives some examples of associated values for showtypes, genre, and advisory at
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showpost.php?p=261424&postcount=2

So, if you were inclined to convert the genre codes for inclusion in the txt file, this file can probably be the guidelines.

Thanks again.

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[baggsey]

Excellent! Version 0.40 seems to be very robust, thanks. I've tried it with .tmf files extracted using Tysuitej 2.6 from the following machines:

US Sony SVR-2000 Series 1 running s/w 3.0
HD Dire*TV HR10-250 running s/w 6.3e
UK Thomson Series 1 running s/w 2.55

I've run the .tmf files through "tytotivo" to create the .tivo headers and then used your v0.40 create the txt files, and "tytompg" to create the matching mpg file.

And I've successfully pytivo'd the matching files across from all 3 source TiVos.

A few observations/thoughts:

1) The Genre thing is bugging me. I extracted the DbEnum.tcl file from the TiVo with the "Kojak" episode, and the genre number mapping to genre was the same as the file you downloaded. So the XML gives the genre numbers as 375,380, 124. On the HR10-250 Tivo where the program resides, the program genres are given as "Drama, Mystery/Crime" , (note combination of two genres) which according to the DbEnum file would be 43, 90, 36 for Drame, Mystery and Crime. There must be a more sophisticated mapping.

2) Regardless of the "time :" and "Original Air Date :" set in the txt file, the date and time of the file loaded on the the TiVo is always the date that I created the mpg file, not the original broadcast date. Any ideas? It seems to be the same for all my uses of Pytivo, regardless of your software.

3) The actors names are not being displayed on the TiVo, either embedded before the program description, or present when pressing the "info" button on the TiVo remote, although they are present in the txt file created by PyTivoMetaGen V0.40. This seems to be consistent with txt files created by V0.37 from standard .tivo files extracted from the TiVo Series 3, however.
Pressing the "info" button on a regular Series 3 TiVo show displays Series Title, Episode Title description, content rating and Rating before showing actors, guest stars etc. I dont know if its necessary to generate dummy content rating and program rating for the other actors names, etc to appear?

Anyway - great job!

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I have tried the zipped installer in 0.40 and seem to get errors.

On Win7, it says it stopped working

On xp-32 bit, it says application failed to initialized properly xC00000135

Is there a 0.40 kit that works?

I've tried 2 win7 systems and an xp one

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See first post for changes and download link.