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The second cut of our Windows 7 guide compiler!

By banger@epgstream · February 17th, 2009

Alpha SymbolI had been planning to send Mike Hayton some sample MXF data on the weekend but I ended up being side-tracked by the Valentine’s Day and a surprise itinerary planned out by my girlfriend! Needless to say I got very little work done, but I did have time to think about how to progress the XMLTV to MXF compiler project.

The original plan was to release a new version of our Guide Service Proxy application which included a Windows 7 MXF guide compiler. After a little refactoring and a lot of reflection and I decided that we should bundle the compiler as a new application, rather than trying to stuff it into the currently stable Guide Service Proxy.

I spent pretty much late Sunday afternoon transplanting my existing work into a new, clean application base which now has the project name of wmcGuideCompiler7.  This new application base frees me from some of the limitations of the previous Guide Service Proxy base without compromising the great command-line and GUI functionality. You’d be surprised just how many painful lessons we’d learned working with XMLTV and Windows Media Center meta-data, all of which I don’t plan on forgetting with this new project! 

CogsSo what next? Well I’ll set aside an hour or two after work this evening and send Mike Hayton a sample MXF file for him to critique. Assuming I get the two thumbs up from Mike, I’ll try and arrange a beta or release candidate when I can scrape together more free time (or if one of my other contract projects are canned).

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Discussion

  1. #1 by Andrew hartley on February 17th, 2009 - 10:28 am

    That is great news banger. Glad your girlfriend saw fit to do something for you for valentinse day as well. Look forward to seeing the Beta when available.

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  2. #2 by Lee on February 17th, 2009 - 6:24 pm

    Good stuff, looking forward to that beta as well. keep up the good work !!!

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  3. #3 by Alexander on February 18th, 2009 - 5:31 am

    I like the idea of a XMLTV-to-MXF compiler very much, good idea! One could use free databases like IMDB.com and TVDB.com to get unique IDs which are used in MXF. Using “foreign” unique IDs might make it easier to merge XMLTV data from different sources…?
    Looking forward to news!

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