Niall has update his Big Screen EPG app. The application brings guide data in to Windows Media Center (you can here Niall on The Media Center Show), there seem a lot of changes so here is Niall’s list:

  • New : New ‘Preset Feeds’ Option (and downloadable catalog) of XMLTV Feeds in ‘Add Provider Wizard’ – makes it easy to find and configure feeds you don’t know about. Australia (and NZ) users should be happy with the initial feeds listed in here – and big win for Aussies is the inclusion of gotkid’s Shepherd feeds (which are auto discoverable and gzipped for your downloading pleasure). Also note that IceTV are still supported – but are now relegated to the bottom of the preset feed list (and don’t have a direct add provider wizard option anymore).
  • New : BSEFixTool (previously seperate tool) is now embedded into Big Screen EPG Processing (and can be nominated to run automatically while processing XMLTV files).
  • New : Automatic support for .gz (gzip) compressed files with on the fly decompression (server does not need to support HTTP compression – only needs to host files).
  • New : Genre/Sub-Genre XML ‘Translation’ File support – allows you to provide Non English Genre Names Mapping file which then uses these Genre/Sub-Genre names when importing to Media Center (ie. so you can have Genre’s in German, French, Spanish, Swahili etc).
  • New : Context Sensitive Help File now fully Integrated with the Configuration Tool.
  • Fixed : Detects invalid XMLTV Program Guide Entries which have same Start/Stop Time (and would cause import to fail).
  • Fixed : Enhanced Auto Correction of corrupted XMLTV which has overlapping start/stop times across various programs (and was throwing out start times in subsequent entries). Note that this has been a big issue lately with the rubbish xmltv data being produced by IceTV over past couple of weeks (so thanks to them for the lousy quality data to help me detect and fix this new bug).
  • Enhanced : Inbuilt Series Database updated with even more new shows (yes there’s artwork for Underbelly 3 now too!)
  • Enhanced/Fixed : Scanning for Channels in Toggle Inband Scheduled Data should now suppress channels which have been deleted.
  • Enhanced/Fixed : User Stats Processing made more efficient/accurate.
  • Enhanced : Big Documentation Update (in Help File)
    : Includes New Troubleshooting Sections for resolving common problems.
    : Includes Includes more screenshots and step-by-step guides. (ie. Customizing Tasks)
    : Includes ‘Where do I get XMLTV files from FAQ section’
  • Expiry Date Extended to 1-July-2010 (check bigscreenglobal.com for latest information on expiry dates).
  • Please Note : the same previously used install directory (Big Screen EPG v0.4) will remain the same on this version so existing users who have scheduled tasks setup will not be broken.
  • and some mindless trivia…. : This new version was compiled on the final release of Visual Studio 2010 – which at compilation time had launched about 5 hours earlier (so probably one of the first products in the world to be done with this). 8)… Note that I’m using .NET v3.5 still for this product (not v4 as I didn’t want to upset too many people with framework updates).

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Download from bigscreenglobal.com and more details are on Niall’s blog

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