THE JOURNAL

IPTV USA journal — page 102

Player setup, everyday viewing, television technology and account decisions, explained with useful steps and source links. Archive page 102.

Good questions make better viewing.

Players & programme guides

Recognize specials and alternate episode orders without forcing every instalment into the ordinary season sequence.

Players & programme guides

Keep a player error screenshot useful while removing passwords, tokens, account identifiers and unrelated personal information.

Players & programme guides

Trace the channel key from an XMLTV declaration to programme records and the player’s mapping.

Players & programme guides

Learn how channel identity records and dated programme records work together in an XMLTV guide, with a small fictional example.

Players & programme guides

Interpret programme boundaries in XMLTV and diagnose schedule gaps without assuming that every event has a supplied end time.

Players & programme guides

Understand the offset attached to a guide timestamp so the same programme is not shifted twice.