Hi, I’m using XMLTV generated with WebGrabPlus because the data from Gracenote is allmost useless in Switzerland (many missing channels/events). Unfotunately all events going to the category Film when I import the xmltv epg data. I think its because I have german categories in my xml: <category …

Maybe you have to append the lang in category? <category lang="en">

Thanks for the suggestion. I modified my xmltv file and replaced all instances of <category> with <category lang="en"> but I’m having the same result.

Same problem as @BrianAz and it definitely recognizes the category because it shows up as a genre under Movies on the guide… it’s just ignoring the settings fields. If anyone has a sample of an xmltv document that works it’d be helpful to see it Edit: NVM adding any episode original air date (just…

While I can’t be 100% sure at the moment due to personal time constraints… I dug through my notes and I believe that the following are examples of a very small test XMLTV EPG I created where each type was properly sorted by category (Sports/News/Movie/Show) and appeared in the GUI mostly correct (ex…

Any updates on this topic? Is that possible to get support from Plex team? I have the same issue. Tried to replace foreign language categories with plexip’s suggestions, but it still does not work. Everything is parsed as ‘Movies’

Ok, I’ve found out that xmltv_ns format of episode-num also fixes problem with Shows detection. But there is still a problem with other kind of tv shows, like sport and music. They all are tracked as movies.

mothman can you give an example of correct xmltv_ns format that worked for you? Thanks

@markcs , currently I have next site config in my .ini WebGrabPlus config: site {ratingsystem=RU|episodesystem=onscreen|allowlastpageoverflow} So episodes are grabbed as S01 E07 or just E17 etc… To convert this format to xmltv_ns add next line in the end of episode format/cleanup: index_episode.m…

It would be much better if Plex built its EPG from the categories that it finds in the XMLTV file. That way the EPG will be much more intuitive and flexible.

Has there been any updates to how Plex uses the categories? I’m still having issues with News programs being detected as movies: [2018-07-28_10-30-05] I’ve set the News category in the Plex DVR settings: [chrome_2018-07-28_10-33-28] The data has the News category set: <programme start="2018072…

XMLTV & Categories

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Coxeroni February 27, 2020, 7:48am 21

Here is the thread I went on in more detail about the categories:

At least a dev was visiting there, so if you chime in maybe this will be heard at one point.

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