EPG: Season incorrectly identified

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HI All,

Can someone explain how the XML schema for XMLTV works? I use a free service that provide much quicker EPG data than using the Plex provided EPG. However, the season and episodes are mixed up.

For example:

	<programme start="20170915090000 +0000" stop="20170915093000 +0000" channel="ABCHD">
		<title>ABC News</title>
		<desc>The latest news, breaking news and live coverage of events as they happen from Australia's largest broadcast news network. Comprehensive coverage, original reporting, and analysis of news in Australia.</desc>
		<category>News</category>
		<category>Weather</category>
		<category>News and Business</category>
		<category>Live</category>
		<subtitles type="teletext" />
		<rating>
			<value>PG</value>
		</rating>
		<star-rating>
			<value>0/10</value>
		</star-rating>
		<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">2017 . 221 . 0</episode-num>
		<episode-num system="bsepg-epid">SE-NN1707V . EP-221S00</episode-num>
		<category>Live</category>
	</programme>

Plex identifies this ABC News episode as “2018·E221—Episode 221”. Why is it not identifying it as 2017 EP 221?

Is this a fault in Plex or is the xml data incorrect?

Thanks

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Sounds like you are down under…

See this post for same issue and fix.

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thanks nokdim for your answer. You are correct; I am in Australia.

I had a look at those posts. mc2xml doesn’t support Au unfortunately. I don’t really want to pay for IceTV when I could use the service already provided by Plex (but it is very very slow).

I’m using a service provided by http://freepg.tv.

I had a play around with the xml, and it seems that the series in the xml tag is incorrect. It is tagged like:
2017 . 181 . 0

However, according to the xmltv dtd, the series is numbered from zero. So, Plex is reading the series number as 2018. It should be 2016 . 181 . 0 in this example.

I’ve scripted a fix, but will contact the providers to see if that can be changed in the xml