Please help: I have setup XMLTV and quickguide, and get succes when running quickguide and a file in ehome/output. However, I can not see the listings in MCE2005. I only have 2 channels, and my system is on the D: drive.

 

XMLTV in d:\xmltv and the quickguide files in d:\windows\ehome

My xmltv output file is called tvguide.xml

I have attached the files and the output. I suspect it is something in the channelinfo.xml or categories? I don't understand the categories - where do I find and change these?

I hope someone can help, as I have been stuck for 2 h with this problem now...

TECCDAXX,

 

Have you tried Settings -> Guide -> Add listings to channel  ?

Yes, I have tried this. But it seems like the channels are marked "No listnings " or similar (I am not at the computer now). I cannot seem to change that setting - how can I do that?

You must make sure the virtualchannel in ChannelInfo is not zero (0) for any channel you want to appear in the guide in MCE.  In your case, you want 2 for DR1 and 4 for TV 2, and if you do this, you probably won't have to add listings to channels, MCE should match automagically.

BJ

Thanks for the suggestions, but I have now added virtual channels for DR1 and TV2 with no luck, and also, I cannot add the listings in MCE. Please see the attached files and screen dumps. When adding listings I do not get any choices.

Does MCE loom in the ChannelInfo file for information, or what is the purpose of this file. Also, I still do not understand the category issue - where to edit these, and if that can course the error.

What am I doing wrong? Should I upload some other files for you to help me?

 

 

I have attaced my complete directories d:\xlmtv and d:\windows\ehome

To save space on this server I have removed the xmltv.exe file, and some files in d:\windows\ehome (se removed files.jpeg marked blue) and some files in d:\windows\ehome\createDics

Please, somebody look at the attaced files, and my last posting. I really hope you can help out there

Is it possibly, that some of the information is stored in a local profile. I fould this dir:

D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\eHome\EPG\prefs

and this holds XML with channel information.

YES! I have solved the problem!

 

By

1. deleting everything in D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\eHome\EPG

2. Setting up TV channels (new search for channels) and order under settings in MCE (again)

3. Editing the file prefs.xml in D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\eHome\EPG\prefs

3a. virtualchannelnumber sholud be 1 for DR1 and 2 for TV 2 and this has do be corrected two places in the file.

4. Ran Dumper.exe in D:\WINDOWS\ehome.

5. Edited the output file DerivedChannelInfo.xml so ChannelID matched the ID in the XMLTV file, eg. 003.tv.tv2.dk for DR1.

6. Renamed DerivedChannelInfo.xml to ChannelInfo.xml

Now I have beautiful EPG in MCE. Hope this helps somebody else!

CATEGORIES

Now I just need to setup categories. Can that be done with the Danish listings?

In MCE all listings is in english - I there a way to make this match the Danish listings grabbed fra www.tv2.dk? 

 (I have attached my XMLTV output file D:\XMLTV\tvguide.xml and the output file fra Quickguide D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\eHome\EPG\7bae19f549bc4208b9f840af6c4d4d5a.xml. If more files are needed to solve this, they will be in the files.zip in my last post.).

 

You just have to edit Categories.txt in windows\ehome\epgxmlwriterparts.  There are notes earlier in this thread about doing this - especially in relation to non ascii characters like Å, for example.  QuickGuide should list out the categories it found that weren't in your categories.txt

BJ

BJ - any comments about the duplicate categories feature posted about last week - I uploaded the files...

 

Hope last week you had a good drink... You probably needed it!

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Impact

Hi Impact,

I haven't tested your files, but I think I've found why the problem was occuring.  I've pretty much re-written the code that creates the programs and schedule entries so that it is much more robust.  Part of that removes duplicate programs where the program definition (as far as MCE is concerned) is the same, and there's just more than one schedule entry.  That should go some way towards fixing the problem.  The other issue was that schedule entries were being created that shouldn't have been - some people saw this as extra entries for a particular channel.  I've fixed that too.

I've released a very alpha version of this for some private testing, but it's such a significant rewrite (and requires changes to config files, etc), that I haven't released it more widely until I'm happy with the way that it is working.

BJ.

Hi,

I've done everything acording to manual and seems that it works for me.
In estonia we have only 16 channels for which the EPG is provided.
So if the guide is for only for the 16 channels how can i watch the other channels without guide, is it possible?

Thanks.

Vitali.

 

BJ thanks - sounds good about the categories....

Will this new version be more stable than v5 ? A few of us are having problems with v5 causing exception errors when run, appear to be corrupting the MCE guide itself, causing MCE to crash when accessing the TV guide... Our only solution was to revert back to V4

 

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Impact

I hope it will be more stable - that's why it's taking so long.