DESCRIPTION

       Some EPG providers deliver additional EPG information like the type of event, the video
       and audio format, cast,...

       Using tvm2vdr or epg4vdr you can import this into vdr.  To use this information with
       search timers one has to configure it with the file epgsearchcats.conf in your plugins
       config directory.

       Sample files for epgsearchcats.conf are delivered with the plugin in the directory 'conf'.

       Simply copy the one that fits for you to your plugins config directory with filename
       epgsearchcats.conf and then have a look to the search timers edit menu (after a restart of
       VDR).

       Since setting up a new epgsearchcats.conf is a lot of work, I've added a small tool
       'createcats', that makes the biggest part of the job. It should have been compiled with
       the plugin and exists in the sources directory.

       See createcats(1) for information about how to use it.

       Internals: epgsearch scans the summary of an event for the category name followed by ': '
       for all categories that have a corresponding value set in the search timer. The search is
       case sensitive regarding the category name as also the value.

SYNTAX

        ID|category name(,format)|name in menu|values separated by ','(option)|searchmode(option)

        - 'ID' should be a unique positive integer
          (changing the id later on will force you to re-edit your search timers!)
        - 'category name' is the name as delivered by the EPG provider, e.g. 'Genre'
          you can optionally provide a format specifier for numeric values, e.g.
          Episode,%02i
        - 'name in menu' is the name displayed in epgsearch.
        - 'values' is an optional list of possible values
        - 'searchmode' specifies the search mode:
          text comparison:
           0  - the whole term must appear as substring
           1  - all single terms (delimiters are ',', ';', '|' or '~')
                must exist as substrings. This is the default search mode.
           2  - at least one term (delimiters are ',', ';', '|' or '~')
                must exist as substring.
           3  - matches exactly
           4  - regular expression
          numerical comparison:
           10 - less
           11 - less or equal
           12 - greater
           13 - greater or equal
           14 - equal
           15 - not equal

EXAMPLE

       (Lines are shortened for correct displaying)

       Example for EPG from HXrzu, downloaded from epgdata.com with tvmovie2vdr.

        1|Category|Kategorie|Information,Kinder,Musik,Serie,Show,Spielfilm,Sport|2

        2|Genre|Genre|Abenteuer,Action,Wirtschaft,Wissen,Zeichentrick|2

        3|Format|Video-Format|16:9,4:3|2

        4|Audio|Audio|Dolby Surround,Dolby,Hoerfilm,Stereo|2

        5|Year|Jahr||2

        6|Cast|Besetzung||2

        7|Director|Regisseur||2

        8|Moderator|Moderation||2

        9|Rating|Bewertung|GroXartig besonders wertvoll,Annehmbar,Schwach|2

        10|FSK|FSK|6,12,16,18|2

        11|Country|Land||2

        12|Episode|Episode||4

        13|Themes|Thema||4

SEE ALSO

       epgsearch(1), "epgsearchcats.conf(5)", createcats(1)

AUTHOR (man pages)

       Mike Constabel <epgsearch (at) constabel (dot) net>

REPORT BUGS

       Bug reports (german):

       <http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-epgsearch>

       Mailing list:

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

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2004-2010 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 MERCHANTABILITY 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.