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<blockquote data-quote="arjay" data-source="post: 84805" data-attributes="member: 20074"><p>Consider me an experienced computer user but newbie for all things media centre. I have an stb using sky satellite signals with cvbs and a haup 150mce card. Very "normal" setup really.</p><p></p><p>However, when installing I never saw anything about what to do if you have an stb. The initial config (wizard?) just offered to auto-tune my channels. But I live in Spain so if I use that and enter spain, it tunes my antenna channels - no result as I don't have an antenna!! Couldn't find any way to interrupt this once it had started so had to sit there for ages while it searched for non-existant channels!</p><p></p><p>Then, when i found out about setting up in the setup config program I found I had to get instructions for how to download the original xmltv.exe and setup the epg (got these from a sky user who had posted some stuff in another program - think it was GBPVR).</p><p></p><p>I had to: find a copy of xmltv.exe, download it, install it, run it in a command terminal to say which channels I wanted, create a tvguide.xml file, put it in the right place, import the channels in MP setup then MANUALLY edit each channel to show it as stb, cvbs, channel number etc - ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY channels - over one and a half hours from start to finish - just to get to the stage where i can have an epg. Only then could I start to even configure MP.</p><p></p><p>Now there may be an easier way and there may be instuctions on how to do these two operations (create a tvguide.xml and set up for an stb) but I never found them. Surely there has to be an automated process where MP finds the card, asks if you have cable, satellite or antenna, and then goes down an appropriate instal path? EDIT: BTW I think GBPVR has a sky stb plugin which pretty well automates the whole process - could that help a plugin developer? There are loads of sky users out here that have stbs and are looking for an alternative to Windows MCE</p><p></p><p>I also had some fun (not) with setting up my videos, recordings, music and pictures. The setup says it will scan for these (which I keep all on a second hard drive). However, I found I then had to manually edit the settings for each to show where the folders were and what to call them. Why can't MP search local drives, find likely existing folders and offer them to you to choose as the defaults. If it doesn't find any it could offer to setup defaults called My videos, My Pictures etc?</p><p></p><p>Anyway - let me say that I think MP is WONDERFUL and worth all the effort of a quite complicated and very LONG install. I have now re-nstalled it three times - either because of instability or because I wanted to try the lastest SVN and - boy - is it boring to have to manually edit all those channels!! I know I could have backed up some appropriate files but wasn't sure back then what they were and anyway, the instability I suffered might have been related to those files so I wanted to completely eliminate the likelihood...</p><p></p><p>Thanks for a great bit of software</p><p></p><p>RJ</p><p></p><p>PS - I started with MS MCE - gave it up, tried GBPVR, then went over to linux and MythTV (all my network is linux except this dedicated media centre). Anyway I kept coming back to MP even though I hate Win XP and am here to stay now - so that must say something!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="arjay, post: 84805, member: 20074"] Consider me an experienced computer user but newbie for all things media centre. I have an stb using sky satellite signals with cvbs and a haup 150mce card. Very "normal" setup really. However, when installing I never saw anything about what to do if you have an stb. The initial config (wizard?) just offered to auto-tune my channels. But I live in Spain so if I use that and enter spain, it tunes my antenna channels - no result as I don't have an antenna!! Couldn't find any way to interrupt this once it had started so had to sit there for ages while it searched for non-existant channels! Then, when i found out about setting up in the setup config program I found I had to get instructions for how to download the original xmltv.exe and setup the epg (got these from a sky user who had posted some stuff in another program - think it was GBPVR). I had to: find a copy of xmltv.exe, download it, install it, run it in a command terminal to say which channels I wanted, create a tvguide.xml file, put it in the right place, import the channels in MP setup then MANUALLY edit each channel to show it as stb, cvbs, channel number etc - ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY channels - over one and a half hours from start to finish - just to get to the stage where i can have an epg. Only then could I start to even configure MP. Now there may be an easier way and there may be instuctions on how to do these two operations (create a tvguide.xml and set up for an stb) but I never found them. Surely there has to be an automated process where MP finds the card, asks if you have cable, satellite or antenna, and then goes down an appropriate instal path? EDIT: BTW I think GBPVR has a sky stb plugin which pretty well automates the whole process - could that help a plugin developer? There are loads of sky users out here that have stbs and are looking for an alternative to Windows MCE I also had some fun (not) with setting up my videos, recordings, music and pictures. The setup says it will scan for these (which I keep all on a second hard drive). However, I found I then had to manually edit the settings for each to show where the folders were and what to call them. Why can't MP search local drives, find likely existing folders and offer them to you to choose as the defaults. If it doesn't find any it could offer to setup defaults called My videos, My Pictures etc? Anyway - let me say that I think MP is WONDERFUL and worth all the effort of a quite complicated and very LONG install. I have now re-nstalled it three times - either because of instability or because I wanted to try the lastest SVN and - boy - is it boring to have to manually edit all those channels!! I know I could have backed up some appropriate files but wasn't sure back then what they were and anyway, the instability I suffered might have been related to those files so I wanted to completely eliminate the likelihood... Thanks for a great bit of software RJ PS - I started with MS MCE - gave it up, tried GBPVR, then went over to linux and MythTV (all my network is linux except this dedicated media centre). Anyway I kept coming back to MP even though I hate Win XP and am here to stay now - so that must say something!! [/QUOTE]
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