Hi,
I understand that downloading the EPG information from the sites besides Microsoft is a heavy process and as Microsoft give you the complete listing to download but sometimes have mistakes, I would like to suggest the following:
Allow the user to have both the detailed more accurate information from sites that he selects and for channels that he selects, and then also download the rest of the channel listings from the microsoft site to fill in the blanks.
Thanks,
Jason
Thank you for the idea!
Thank you for the idea! It's technically already possible and some users even used it for HOT, in a little bit opposite way though: the general channels were taken from Microsoft and the HOT "home" channels were taken from the HOT site.
If you specify few scripts, a next script will try to download the guide for channel(s) that the previous script(s) could download it for.
Igor, How Do I Contact You About Adding Support For My Country?
This thread implies a process similar to what I am doing with multiple grabbers (other than MegaEPG) to get complete listings for my lineup. But if my country was supported by MegaEPG, it would allow the rest of the country to compensate for the lack of a single source of data for complete listings. Even the data downloaded from Microsoft for Media Center is incomplete.
I am very interested in getting a dialog started with you for adding support for my country.
The FAQ says to e-mail you, but after navigating every area of the site I can find no contact instructions for you.
You can email me to pvr at
You can email me to pvr at pvr.co.il
I'd like using the above
I'd like using the above idea.
can you explain how to do it ?
what do you mean by "script" ?
thanks
The MegaEPG consists of the
The MegaEPG consists of the engine and the small modules that do real EPG grabbing from web sites. Every Web site has its own format and amount of data for the TV guide therefore the MegaEPG has a set of such modules, a module per every site/EPG source it supports. I called these modules "scripts". If you grab EPG from the tv2day site, you'd use the tv2day_he script, if you prefer the Walla site, you'd choose the walla_he script and so on.
You specify which script will be used at the time of configuration (epgconfig). There is the wizard page that lets you choose one or more scripts. If you specify one script, the MegaEPG will use it for every chosen channel, this is a usual mode. Now, if you specify more than 1 script, the MegaEPG will use the 1st script trying to grab EPG for a channel and if unsuccessful (error or zero programs downloaded) will use the 2nd script and so on till all the specified scripts tried the channel or till one succeeded to download EPG for the channel. The next channel starts with the 1st script again.
I'm actually using this way
I'm actually using this way to dl my epg - first hot_he, then vista, ynet & walla.
but how can i make it use the "all channels" for the vista grabber, and only a few channels for the rest of the grabbers?
thanks
make the vista_he first,
make the vista_he first, then hot_he, then ynet/walla
hi again. I've set
hi again.
I've set up:
[global]
tvprovider = cab
script = vista_he,hot_he,ynet_he,walla_he
epgformat = mce
language = he_IL
grabchannels = *all*
but now I'm missing Hot3, Bip, AXN and some other channels that the Vista EPG doesn't include.
how can i make it take all the channels from Vista, and the missing channels from hot ?
thanks again
The problem is in defining
The problem is in defining grabchannels. *all* can be specified only for vista_he script (kind of a source that grabs all the channels at once). hot_he script requires channels to be specified explicitly. So to solve it just add specific channels (all channels you need from HOT) in the MegaEPG configuratior.
I thought you've said it's
I thought you've said it's possible to dl the complete epg data from Vists_he (which includes most of the channels, complete with descriptions) and then fill in the blanks using the other epg sources.
is it possible?
if i try setting "grabchannels = *all*, hot3, axn" then it's downloading only the data for hot3 and axn :-(
Someone was misunderstood
Someone was misunderstood probably. Vista and HOT scripts work differently. Vista script always gets the complete EPG while the HOT script gets EPG channel by channel. The HOT scipt doesn't know the *all* definition, this definition was specifically made for "complete EPG" scripts. Use *all* only if using the single vista script. Otherwise, select channels explicitly.
ok, got it. suggesting (if
ok, got it.
suggesting (if possible) for future versions to use Vista's epg as a default base for the data, completing the blanks from the other EPG sources by demand of the user's configuration.
p.s. - is it possible to create two different xml outputs using two ini's and combining them to one file ? i'm using the MCE format, not the xmltv.
thanks in advance
is it possible to create
is it possible to create two different xml outputs using two ini's and combining them to one file
This is planned for v2.0. The task is way way non-trivial.
It would be great to have
It would be great to have the option for running Vista with *all* and others with specific channels.
When v2.0 is planned?
Are you familiar with any third party tool for combining two guide.bin files into one file?
It'll take about a couple of
It'll take about a couple of months till the production state (an estimation). There are no such tools that I know about.