createcats(5)           Epgsearch Version 0.9.24.beta26          createcats(5)



NAME
       createcats - helps you creating your own epgsearchcats.conf

SYNOPSIS
       createcats [OPTIONS] /path_to/epg.data

DESCRIPTION
       This tool is deliverd with the plugin and should exist in the plugins
       source directory after compilation. It helps you in creating your own
       epgsearchcats.conf, if the samples in directory ’conf’ don’t fit your
       needs.

       createcats takes your epg.data as argument and scans it for suitable
       EPG infos. Such an info is a set of a category name and a coresponding
       value at the beginning of a line (represented with ’|’) and has the
       form ’|category: value’, e.g.

        |Genre: Action

       So simply call it with

       createcats /path_to/epg.data

       The output is a file epgsearchcats.conf, that should be copied to your
       plugins config dir. Before using it, you should do some customizing,
       since not all things in the file will be suitable to be used as
       extended EPG info.

OPTIONS
       The full set of arguments is:

       usage: createcats [OPTIONS] /path_to/epg.data

        -m N, --minappearance=N    the minimum number a category has to appear
                                   to be used
        -v N, --maxvalues=N        values of a category are omitted if they exceed
                                   this number
        -l N, --maxlength=N        the maximum length of a text to be accepted
                                   as a category value
        -h, --help                 this help

       Some notes:

       -m N, --minappearance=N
           createcats counts how often a category is used in your current
           epg.data. If this is less than N, then this category will not be
           part of the resulting epgsearchcats.conf.

       -v N, --maxvalues=N
           if the number of values for a category is more than N then create‐
           cats will not output a value list for this category. As a conse‐
           quence in epgsearch the menu item gets an edit item, that can be
           filled with every text. Else, the item gets a selection item, that
           lets you select from a list of values.

       -l N, --maxlength=N
           if the text length of a value is more than N, this value is not
           part of the value list.

       Hint: Results are best, if your current EPG is as big as possible. So
       update it, if you are using an external EPG provider, before calling
       createcats.

       Please edit this file now, since it will contain also things not suit‐
       able.

       After that copy it to your plugins config directory.

SEE ALSO
       epgsearch(1), epgsearch(4), "epgsearchcats.conf(5)"

AUTHOR (man pages)
       Mike Constabel <epgsearch (at) constabel (dot) net>

REPORT BUGS
       Bugreports (german):

       <http://www.vdr-developer.org/mantisbt/>

       Mailinglist:

       <http://www.vdr-developer.org/mailman/listinfo/epgsearch>

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
       Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Christian Wieninger

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
       Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
       option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER‐
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General
       Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
       with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
       51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Or, point
       your browser to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html

       The author can be reached at cwieninger@gmx.de

       The project’s page is at http://winni.vdr-developer.org/epgsearch

       The MD5 code is derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-
       Digest Algorithm.



perl v5.8.8                       2008-03-23                     createcats(5)
