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<blockquote data-quote="huha" data-source="post: 329687" data-attributes="member: 63847">New version 0.0.1.0 releasedThis version addresses the issue of duplicate channel names as described by robyf. It actually turned out to be worse than I thaught and I realized that I also had many duplicate channel names on my system.Checking and processing duplicate channel names addresses the problem that in Media Portal identical names can be used for channels with different tuning parameters and content. This can cause the issue that during import the group, program or recording assignments, which are being based on the channel name, are getting an incorrect channel. The plugin fixes this by renaming the Media Portal display channel name and applying an automatic renaming operation. If two channels have the same name, then the Media Portal display name is being changed into &lt;name&gt;_1 for the first duplicate channel, &lt;name&gt;_2 for the second one and so on. This ensures that during rescanning the TV card will not create another copy of the same channel. The default setting is tuned to apply an automatic renaming operation at each export if duplicate channel names do exist. If you do not want to do that you need to remove the check box “Automated Processing During Export”.This version is not compatible with previous versions for importing data, so please make a new export with this version. If you ever should have the need to restore data from an older plugin version export, please keep in mind that the TV server plugins are also restored and you can use the backupsetting.dll from your backup folder in TV_Program\Plugins.With this version all issues discussed in this thread before are now closed to my understanding.If you find any new issues please post a tv server log file.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="huha, post: 329687, member: 63847"] [b]New version 0.0.1.0 released[/b] This version addresses the issue of duplicate channel names as described by robyf. It actually turned out to be worse than I thaught and I realized that I also had many duplicate channel names on my system. Checking and processing duplicate channel names addresses the problem that in Media Portal identical names can be used for channels with different tuning parameters and content. This can cause the issue that during import the group, program or recording assignments, which are being based on the channel name, are getting an incorrect channel. The plugin fixes this by renaming the Media Portal display channel name and applying an automatic renaming operation. If two channels have the same name, then the Media Portal display name is being changed into <name>_1 for the first duplicate channel, <name>_2 for the second one and so on. This ensures that during rescanning the TV card will not create another copy of the same channel. The default setting is tuned to apply an automatic renaming operation at each export if duplicate channel names do exist. If you do not want to do that you need to remove the check box “Automated Processing During Export”. This version is not compatible with previous versions for importing data, so please make a new export with this version. If you ever should have the need to restore data from an older plugin version export, please keep in mind that the TV server plugins are also restored and you can use the backupsetting.dll from your backup folder in TV_Program\Plugins. With this version all issues discussed in this thread before are now closed to my understanding. If you find any new issues please post a tv server log file. [/QUOTE]

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