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Message: <blockquote data-quote="technoweary" data-source="post: 1204523" data-attributes="member: 153083">Hi mm1352000Thank you for your replyThe epg accuracy for me is focussed mainly on the RT / Euronews / NHK channels, and in fairness they do keep messing around with their programming and I rely on recording the regular shows that get shifted around by the news reporting. The accuracy I refer to is more to do with the updating speed of the guide. Out of the TV guides I refer to via internet browser TVguide.co.uk always seems to reflect the most "up to the minute" schedules and as I have to record the shows I want to watch I find I must rely on day by day accuracy.The codecs will not behave at all. I returned home about three months ago and had no audio at all. It transpired that only MP renderer would provide audio. I generated and submitted a file for analysis at the time and was informed that there was no obvious reason for the problem. So I tweaked the delays on TV and Video in the renderer to get the sync close enough and decided to sort it out later. The regular lock ups occur when I am flicking through live channels or recordings and for all I know may well be the windows drivers letting MP down. On a regular basis I get the 'Unable to play .ts' when I try and watch TV or recorded TV. Most times I can Ctrl-Alt-Del task manager and restart MP but occaisionally it has jammed the OS as well and I have to do a reset. Maybe the reason for this is that I have my media on a different hard drive, (just so I can do a clean OS re-install without wiping media files), and I believe microsoft do not like the default folders being set on other physical drives.It is an easy task just to wipe and reinstall the OS and then reload MP and configure everything back to usual. It's just tedious but usually gets results without doing the detective work.I always do a search on the forum before I ask for help, not just using forum search, my search also includes searching the forum using google and there is usually more than one request for help by others that are coincident with my query. I am not being critical when I say that my search often results in posting for help because it appears that others have drawn a blank. Even this very post did not provide an answer, because most probably I am asking for something that is just not available. If I could programme a skin I would set up a manual recording screen that would simply be like the old fashoined VCR timers. Just a few fields that you type the Start / End / Date and repeat option in. But of course this is not a great idea considering most people do not want to use a keyboard to use MP so I really do understand that this cannot be an important "must have" for 99.9% of MP users.In my opinion I have taken up too much time already on what is not an important aspect of MP. I am sure you have more important fish to fry, and I can get by using the epg as long as I make a note of what name the OTA time slot schedule uses so I can find it later in the recordings.I will revise my statement to 'I am getting a bit dissapointed with the general useability for broadcast and Internet TV' as I do not wish to cause any disruption, and I apologise for the wasted time.Thanks again for your attention TW</blockquote>

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