About your last version of the script:

i tried it but sometimes vlc appears but stream does not load, sometimes stream loads but no epg ( it says "no available")
But the thing i really want to say is that to me your new procedure is too risky because the .bat forces to zap channels ( wget -q -O - http://xx.xx.xx.xx/web/zap?sRef=[your stream])

I know that this is necessary in order to understand the right resolution of the channel (taken using this string: "wget -q -O - http://xx.xx.xx.xx/web/about ") to create the right amount of spaces between EVENT and INFO (correct me if i'm wrong)

It's too risky because if the owner is watching , he can surely see that somebody is changing channel so high chances that he locks or kills the ip !

However thanks for your commitment !

Notice: compared to marq-marquee, the big advantage of meta-title is that it is not affected by screen resolution changes. This allows to put a never changing maximum number of space characters between %EPG% and %INFO%. And obviously, this also allows to avoid zapstream, box general info, screen size analysis subroutines etc. that complicate things too much.

wget -q -O - "http://xx.xxx.xxx.xx/web/epgservice?sRef=[stream]" >> epg.txt
type epg.txt | FINDSTR "e2eventtitle" >>epg2.txt
type epg.txt | FINDSTR "e2eventdescriptionextended" >>info.txt
type epg2.txt | cut -d "<" -f 2 >>epg3.txt
type epg3.txt | cut -d ">" -f 2 >>epg4.txt
type info.txt | cut -d "<" -f 2 >>info2.txt
type info2.txt | cut -d ">" -f 2 >>info3.txt
call "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -command "& {get-content epg4.txt -totalcount 1}" >>epg5.txt
call "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -command "& {get-content info3.txt -totalcount 1}" >>infon.txt
set /p EPG=<epg5.txt
call :filesize2 "infon.txt"
:filesize2
set size2=%~z1
if "%size2%"=="2" del infon.txt & goto ALTER
if "%size2%"=="0" del infon.txt & goto ALTER
set /p INFO=<infon.txt
set a=0
goto Sub

:ALTER
type epg.txt | FINDSTR "e2eventdescription" >>info5.txt
type info5.txt | cut -d "<" -f 2 >>info6.txt
type info6.txt | cut -d ">" -f 2 >>info7.txt
call "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -command "& {get-content info7.txt -totalcount 1}" >>infon.txt
set /p INFO=<infon.txt
call :filesize3 "infon.txt"
:filesize3
set size3=%~z1
if "%size3%"=="0" set EPG=not available & set INFO=not available & goto END
goto Sub

:Sub
set /a b=%a%+1
set /a a=%b%
more +%b% infon.txt >>piece.txt
set /p ADD=<piece.txt
call :filesize "piece.txt"
:filesize
set size=%~z1
if "%size%"=="0" del piece.txt & goto END
set INFON=%INFO%%ADD%
set INFO=%INFON%
del piece.txt
goto Sub

:END
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

for %%a in (epg5.txt) do set /a length=%%~za
set /a length -=2
set /a SPC=95-%length%
SET "mychar= "
FOR /l %%i IN (2,1,%SPC%) DO CALL set "mychar=%%mychar%%%mychar%"
call "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --freetype-rel-fontsize=20 --meta-title="EVENT: %EPG%%mychar%INFO: %INFO%" --video-title-show --video-title-position=4 --video-title-timeout=30000 --aspect-ratio=16:9 "http://xx.xxx.xxx.xx:8001/[stream]"
del epg*.txt
del info*.txt
exit

call "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"

call "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"

sometimes it's acceptable: http://i.imgur.com/qKaSBz3.jpg ("info" not under "event")

sometimes no epg: http://i.imgur.com/vI71WuW.jpg

Hi !

I've just tried your new script and got several results:

sometimes it's very good: http://i.imgur.com/LG1a1Pe.jpg (even if "info" is displayed in a strange way)
sometimes it's acceptable: http://i.imgur.com/qKaSBz3.jpg ("info" not under "event")
sometimes it's bad: http://i.imgur.com/MqX2hUj.jpg
sometimes no epg: http://i.imgur.com/vI71WuW.jpg

So still variable results but i appreciate the effort you put into it.

One thing i don't like though is that even after 30 seconds, egp info continues to be displayed on the status bar as follows:
http://i.imgur.com/TAR4p5x.jpg

Is it possible to remove that ?