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User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Manager 5.2.x
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Chapter 26 Electronic Program Guide
Concepts
Guidelines
Note When you negotiate a subscription contract to receive EPG data in any format, tell your data provider that you will use
its EPG data with Cisco Cast. Knowing this, your provider can ensure that your license grants you sufficient permissions so that
you are not in violation of its terms.
Understand EPG Data Formats
We support the XMLTV and TMS data formats for subscriptions to electronic program guide (EPG) data.
• XMLTV, page 26-2
• Tribune Media Services, page 26-2
XMLTV
XMLTV is an emerging, open-source format for EPG data, based in part on RFC 2838 and maintained
by the XMLTV Project. An EPG data file that complies with this format contains structured records that
describe the attributes of episodes and channels individually.
Cisco DMS supports EPG data subscriptions that retrieve a single GZIP-compressed XMLTV file from
an ftp server. Many subscription providers compile and deliver EPG data in this way, including these
providers based in the United States:
• FYI Television, Inc. (http://www.fyitelevision.com/)
1901 N State Hwy 360 3rd Floor
Grand Prairie, TX 75050
• Schedules Direct (http://www.schedulesdirect.org/)
8613 42nd Ave S
Seattle, WA 98118
Tribune Media Services
Tribune Media Services (TMS; http://tms.tribune.com/products/k-epgs.html) sells subscriptions to EPG
data in several proprietary data formats that it controls. Cisco DMS supports only one of these data
formats. Specifically:
• The name of the supported product is TV Schedules, United States.
• The scope of the supported product is Fourteen (14) rolling days.
• Subscriptions that use this format are available only within the United States.
Other EPG subscription products from TMS use data formats that we do not support. If you are already
a TMS customer, check whether your preexisting subscription contract already authorizes you to obtain
and use EPG data in the supported format.