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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 889683" data-attributes="member: 82144">Hello Chris&nbsp;In the ideal situation, how do you see the SD/HD channel selection working from your two separate machines?I guess in an ideal world TV Server would know that the &quot;weaker&quot; PC is not capable of playing the HD stream and deliver the SD stream automatically. This is not currently possible - TV Server currently doesn't differentiate between the clients.So the only way I can see it working is if you have two versions of the channels: one for the HD version, and another for the SD version.The SD version should automatically get guide data via the DVB EPG grabber.The question then becomes how to get guide data for the HD channel.Unfortunately TV Server doesn't support the &quot;guide channel&quot; concept that 4TR does for the DVB EPG grabber.Quite honestly, the most straightforward way I can think of to do what you want is to use the EPG Collector to grab the EPG, and use the XMLTV plugin to link the channels up how you want - the XMLTV channel effectively does have a guide channel concept, so you can do what you want quite easily. The EPG grabber can check whether tuners are available or not and play nicely with TV Server as long as you don't use the &quot;pause card&quot; configuration for your tuners.If you merge/combine the HD and SD channel (and create another copy of the SD channel for your underpowered client(s)) to get the guide data for the HD channel, there is (1) no way to force TV Server to only tune with the HD tuning detail, and (2) I can't guarantee that TV Server would not overwrite the full EPG data from the SD channel with the now/next info from the HD channel.&nbsp;First, MP doesn't support grabbing OpenTV format EPG data. DJBlu's plugin does I think, but the default TV Server does not. This in itself is not really a disadvantage in this case as I think the content of the OpenTV and EIT data is identical.You can specify to only grab EPG from one of the channels which is on the 12519H transponder. Unless you enable the &quot;grab EPG only for channels on the same transponder&quot; option, TV Server would pick up EPG for all channels that way. However, you'd still have the problem with only getting now/next info for the HD channels... so I don't see how this helps.&nbsp;mm</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 889683, member: 82144"] Hello Chris In the ideal situation, how do you see the SD/HD channel selection working from your two separate machines? I guess in an ideal world TV Server would know that the "weaker" PC is not capable of playing the HD stream and deliver the SD stream automatically. This is not currently possible - TV Server currently doesn't differentiate between the clients. So the only way I can see it working is if you have two versions of the channels: one for the HD version, and another for the SD version. The SD version should automatically get guide data via the DVB EPG grabber. The question then becomes how to get guide data for the HD channel. Unfortunately TV Server doesn't support the "guide channel" concept that 4TR does for the DVB EPG grabber. Quite honestly, the most straightforward way I can think of to do what you want is to use the EPG Collector to grab the EPG, and use the XMLTV plugin to link the channels up how you want - the XMLTV channel effectively does have a guide channel concept, so you can do what you want quite easily. The EPG grabber can check whether tuners are available or not and play nicely with TV Server as long as you don't use the "pause card" configuration for your tuners. If you merge/combine the HD and SD channel (and create another copy of the SD channel for your underpowered client(s)) to get the guide data for the HD channel, there is (1) no way to force TV Server to only tune with the HD tuning detail, and (2) I can't guarantee that TV Server would not overwrite the full EPG data from the SD channel with the now/next info from the HD channel. First, MP doesn't support grabbing OpenTV format EPG data. DJBlu's plugin does I think, but the default TV Server does not. This in itself is not really a disadvantage in this case as I think the content of the OpenTV and EIT data is identical. You can specify to only grab EPG from one of the channels which is on the 12519H transponder. Unless you enable the "grab EPG only for channels on the same transponder" option, TV Server would pick up EPG for all channels that way. However, you'd still have the problem with only getting now/next info for the HD channels... so I don't see how this helps. mm [/QUOTE]

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