tv_remove_some_overlapping(1p) [debian man page]

TV_REMOVE_SOME_OVERLAPPING(1p)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    TV_REMOVE_SOME_OVERLAPPING(1p)

NAME

       tv_remove_some_overlapping - Remove some overlapping programmes from XMLTV data.

SYNOPSIS

       tv_remove_some_overlapping [--help] [--output FILE] [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION

       Read one or more XMLTV files and write a file to standard ouput containing the same data, except that some 'magazine' programmes which seem
       to contain two or more other programmes are removed.

       For example, if 'Schools TV' runs from 10:00 to 12:00, and there are two programmes 'History' from 10:00 to 11:00 and 'Geography' from
       11:00 to 12:00 on the same channel, then 'Schools TV' could be removed.	A programme is removed only if there are two or more other
       programmes which partition its timeslot, which implies that it and these other programmes must have stop times specified.

       To avoid throwing away any real programmes, no programme will be discarded if it has content data other than title and URL.

       Filtering this tool won't remove all overlapping programmes but it will deal with the 'big magazine programme containing smaller
       programmes' data commonly seen from listings sources.

       --output FILE write to FILE rather than standard output

SEE ALSO

       xmltv(5).

AUTHOR

       Ed Avis, ed@membled.com

perl v5.14.2							    2004-01-01					    TV_REMOVE_SOME_OVERLAPPING(1p)

TV_SORT(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       TV_SORT(1p)

NAME

       tv_sort - Sort XMLTV listings files by date, and add stop times.

SYNOPSIS

       tv_sort [--help] [--by-channel] [--output FILE] [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION

       Read XMLTV data and write out the same data sorted in date order.  Where stop times of programmes are missing, guess them from the start
       time of the next programme on the same channel. For the last programme of a channel, no stop time can be added.

       Tv_sort also performs some sanity checks such as making sure no two programmes on the same channel overlap.

       --output FILE write to FILE rather than standard output

       --by-channel sort first by channel id, then by date within each
		       channel.

       --duplicate-error If the input contains the same programme more than once,
			    consider this as an error. Default is to silently
			    ignore duplicate entries.

       The time sorting is by start time, then by stop time.  Without --by-channel, if start times and stop times are equal then two programmes
       are sorted by internal channel id.  With --by-channel, channel id is compared first and then times.

       You can think of tv_sort as converting XMLTV data into a canonical form, useful for diffing two files.

EXAMPLES

       At a typical Unix shell or Windows command prompt:

       tv_sort <in.xml >out.xml
       tv_sort in.xml --output out.xml

       These are different ways of saying the same thing.

AUTHOR

       Ed Avis, ed@membled.com

perl v5.14.2							    2006-03-02							       TV_SORT(1p)