FYI: mc2xml seems not to be working again (1 Viewer)

[Bill Motzing]

TLD. I hit the refresh button and have the channels listed. However the Map To column has blank fields. When I click on one of the blank fields what appears to be a pop-up comes up and is also blank. I thought I was supposed to manually select the channel from a list in that pop up to map to. Is that column supposed to be blank?

RonD I have exported a TVGuide.xml following the command line directions on the "How would I use mc2xml with MediaPortal?" page.

Thank you for your help.

 

[TLD]

In TV server configuration in the xmltv plugin configuration general tab have you put the location of the TVGuide.xml and hit Import?

 

[RonD]

Bill,

glad you got this working, if you want daily EPG updates you also need to create a windows task to launch mc2xml. I think the mc2xml page has info for XP, but you can google "create scheduled task windows" to find info on setting up a mc2xml task.

maybe I mis-read your message, in the mc2xml page you need to follow steps 5 to 10 to setup your channel mappings.

maybe I need to write another readme file like I did for WebEPG

 

[Bill Motzing]

TLD: I have put in the location of the tvguide.xml but when I hit import I see that "Import status report" says:
Total channels imported: 0
Total programs imported: 0
tvguide.xml Invalid XML file: Could not find the "D:\shares
(The rest of the message is cut off. I cannot make the window any bigger.)

I tried storing the tvguide.xml file on the root level of the C:\ and putting in that location, but I get a similar error.

I created the tvguide.xml file by following the command line directions on the "How would I use mc2xml with MediaPortal?" page.

I had to add -f to the line because I originally got the error "no new data available"

After I added -f to the line it said: Completed ... : 22246323 bytes in 10s, 74 channels were found and 32,558 programs scheduled.
So it looks as if tvguide.xml was created correctly. Yet I get an error when trying to import into MePo.

 

[RonD]

I have not seen that error message. Did you do the 1st step and download/save a copy of xmltv.dtd in the same folder as mc2xml.exe and the tvguide.xml file you generated?

Step 1. Create a folder for the EPG data (example: c:\mc2xml) and put the mc2xml.exe binary and a copy of xmltv.dtd in that folder (use a GUI file manager or command line)

the beginning of the mc2xml webpage has the following link
http://xmltv.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmltv/xmltv/xmltv.dtd

you need to download/save this file. Make sure it is a ".dtd" file. Sometimes it downloads as a .txt file and you may need to fix the extension.

 

[Bill Motzing]

No! I did not. I thought I was to generate my own .dtd file. I'll try it now. Thanks.

 

[Bill Motzing]

Things are going much better. It now says Total channels imported: 74 but I am wiating to see Total programs imported. It also says "Note: could take quite some time to execute depending on how many days forward you grab."

How long does it take to import?

 

[RonD]

did you already do the channel mapping setup for the channels you want to import?

 

[Bill Motzing]

No. Do I need to map before it will import?

 

[RonD]

yes you need to do the mapping, it tells xmltv which "guide channel" to use for each of the "tuning channels" MePo found when you scanned channels