Guide data engineering notes
Review an XMLTV overlap before deleting a programme
Distinguish adjacent intervals, duplicates and intentional clumps in an owned guide import.
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Useful explanations for choosing a plan, setting up a player and understanding the viewing experience.
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Guide data engineering notes
Give an EPG merge an explicit source priority
Design an owned guide merge so a rich description does not silently outrank a more authoritative schedule.
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Guide data engineering notes
An XMLTV time without an offset is not device-local time
Prevent a guide importer from assigning its host machine's timezone to an offset-free XMLTV timestamp.
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Two equal EPG clock labels can identify different instants
Preserve offsets when reviewing a repeated local hour in an owned schedule import.
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Convert XMLTV episode indices before displaying them
Read xmltv_ns season and episode values without showing zero-based indices as audience-facing numbers.
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A guide's text language does not identify the selected audio
Keep XMLTV description language, programme language and actual media tracks as separate evidence.
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