nxtvepg
Browser for TV schedules in XMLTV format

Welcome to the homepage of the nxtvepg software package, a browser for TV programme schedules (EPG) stored in XMLTV format. nxtvepg supports flexible merging EPG from multiple sources and displaying the result in a compact table view, or a grid view. It supports filtering the TV schedule based on a large number of attributes, a filter shortcut list in the main window, adding custom columns to the view to mark programmes matching predefined filters, and reminders for individual programmes or filter shortcuts.

nxtvepg also features an integrated Teletext EPG grabber, which uses a TV capture card for automatically extracting TV schedules from programme tables in Teletext from a given list of channels. Acquired EPG data can be merged and browsed immediately in the nxtvepg GUI, or exported to files in XMLTV format for use in another browser. Currently, the list of well-supported TV networks consists mainly of German TV networks. Support for other networks can be easily added on request, provided they transmit Teletext with useful TV schedules.

History: From 2000-2008 nxtvepg was originally developed for receiving and browsing Nextview EPG, which was an European standard for transmission of Electronic TV Program Guides within analog TV broadcasts. However, as the world has switched to digital TV broadcast since, it is no longer transmitted today. Therefore, support for this standard has been removed from nxtvepg in release 3.0. More...

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New release 3.1 (Jul/23/2023)

Focus of this release are extensions to the support of the XMLTV specification and thus to the information available for display in the GUI. Additionally, a number of bugs in the GUI were fixed.

• Theme category handling was enhanced to support this attribute exactly as present in XMLTV files: The pre-defined theme category table was replaced by a table that is created dynamically from the categories present in the loaded XMLTV file. A new filter dialog was added which can be used for browsing the list of all defined theme categories and for finding associated programmes.
• Support for several new programme attributes defined by XMLTV was added, namely "review", "new", "premiere" and "last-chance". The "audio", "video" and "subtitles" attributes parsing was updated to support new attributes defined by XMLTV. (Note you'll benefit from these enhancements only if your XMLTV provider supports these attributes.)
• Processing of parental and editorial ratings was enhanced by removing rounding to multiples of two and adding support for a Polish and an American parental rating category. For editorial ratings, the GUI now displays both the actual rating and maximum value.
• The expiry threshold filter dialog was extended to allow disabling the expiry time filter completely, so that even programme data that is completely expired can be viewed.
• Case-insensitive text search was corrected, so that it now also works as expected for text containing non-ASCII characters (i.e. locale-specific characters).
• The limitation to 254 channels when importing a database from XMLTV was relaxed to about 8000 channels and the import procedures were optimized to reduce load time for huge XMLTV files.
• Performance of several GUI dialogs was improved for large databases, namely the programme index filter and "Recurring titles" drop-down menu.
• Usability of the "Load XMLTV file" menu command was improved by replacing this command with a standard file selection dialog. The previous more complex dialog was kept as a separate menu command "Browse XMLTV files" with an additional possibility to configure file name extension of XMLTV files.
• Usability of the "Network name configuration" dialog was improved by omitting optional notifications and dialog sub-frames that are not relevant when nxtvepg is not configured to interact with a TV application.
• When using MS Windows, the "nxtvepg.ini" configuration file is now stored in the user's "AppData" directory instead of the current working directory. Note this means that a config file created by previous versions of nxtvepg will not be loaded automatically.
• Encoding of the config file has been changed to UTF-8 so that characters imported from XMLTV can be stored without corruption. If your system is not configured to use UTF-8 by default, it's recommended to delete your old "nxtvepg.ini" (MS Windows) or "config/nxtvepg/nxtvepg.rc" (Linux) file.

  Questions and feedback

  Your feedback is always welcome. If you have specific questions, suggestions, bug reports or any other kind of feedback, feel free to use any of the following possibilities. Since nxtvepg currently has few users, you should not expect bugs to be fixed unless you report them yourself.

  • Read the list of Frequently Asked Questions (including answers - not updated since 2008)
  • Discussion forum: Preferred place for questions, feature requests, bug reports or exchange of tips & tricks between users (does not require Sourceforge registration).
  • Mailing list: The list was used historically for announcements of pre-releases. Due to the small amount of users, it is currently no longer in use. Please use the forum instead.

  Before posting a question, please check if it isn't answered in the manual and look through the forum if the same question hasn't been asked recently.

  Copyright

  © Copyright 1999 - 2011, 2020 - 2023 by T. Zoerner (and others).

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

  Content copyright: Please note that content providers do hold a copyright on the programme data which can be received by means of this software. The data is free for personal use, but you must not publically redistribute it (e.g. make it available on the Internet) without prior permission.