Could Plex provide structure of XMLTV which is supported? Example code or file.
- Link to posters with supported images
- Link to channels icons
- How to correctly divide film and show
We don’t have a guide sorry. We can read the same sorta formatting as popular XMLTV sites like IceTV and others you can find links to their sites here https://support.plex.tv/articles/using-an-xmltv-guide/ There is also a forum topic linked where some users in New Zealand made their own
I am using https://epgguide.net/, the best for my country epg data for good price. Could you provide how Plex work with epg data? In the past someone advised that Plex is downloading posters via agents. But I do not think so.
The DTD is here
And supported files are png, jpeg, GIF? Which resolution?
<programme start="20080715010000 -0600" stop="20080715023000 -0600" channel="I10436.labs.zap2it.com"> <title lang="en">Mystery!</title> <sub-title lang="en">Foyle's War, Series IV: Bleak Midwinter</sub-title> <desc lang="en">Foyle investigates an explosion at a munitions factory, which he comes to believe may have been premeditated.</desc> <date>20070701</date> <category lang="en">Anthology</category> <category lang="en">Mystery</category> <category lang="en">Series</category> <episode-num system="dd_progid">EP00003026.0665</episode-num> <episode-num system="onscreen">2705</episode-num> <audio> <stereo>stereo</stereo> </audio> <previously-shown start="20070701000000" /> <subtitles type="teletext" /> </programme>
Where is source of movie or show poster?
Where is code for series and episode number?
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For zap2xml you have to ask for in in the command line. This is my command line
./zap2xml.pl -u [email] -p [pass] -d 14 -S .01 -c [cache dir] -i [icons dir] -o xmltv.xml -E “amp apos quot lt gt” -F -M -D -I -j -T
Could you send example of your xml?
Any one have example of the XML where are links to posters? Or Plex do it itself without XML?
How to name series for all who need help:
Episode based
<episode-num system="onscreen">S6E16</episode-num>
WORK
Date based
<episode-num system="original-air-date">2018-07-27 09:30:00</episode-num>
WORK
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As you wish, anything is possible. Posters come from Plex, no need to supply them (if the show or movie is recognised).
Thx its very important information, but nowhere is written. So how is possible that all my posters in TV are missing?
Maybe because you didn’t check enhanced guide?
Its where?
Is there anything you can do on your own?
DVR settings
Nice, done. But I do not understand why so far I did not need to check this option and now (? probably afters some update) I have to click something. How could I know that its disabled? On the Plex site there is not enough information. So I have thought long time that poster is part of XML file. POSTER IS NOT PART OF XML FILE, BUT IS DOWNLOADED BY PLEX ITSELF.
Ok for everyone who miss poster you need go to the:
Settings/Live TV & DVR/DVR Settings/Enhanced Guide
I hope it will help someone.
It has always been like that, maybe you disabled it by accident or did you use the Plex guide before?
I am using guide for one year. And now every poster have disappeared.
Ok, at least now you know where it comes from 
There is last big problem to differ movies and shows. If there is category shows it does not help to determine that it is show and to be sorted as show. You need epised/date info about series and episoded in xml. Its probleblem while you want to record. Show is saved to movie folder and cannot be recorded scheduled. It must be fixes on xml site.
