Did you ever figure this out? I'm still fighting with this too, I need to collect the episode #I am trying to get episode number and season number. Any simple way of doing that?
Yes, I figured it out the very easy way. I am not using media-portal. I got the software from enigmaindustries, Easy HDTV DVR and it works perfectly. It's small, simple and uses just the guide that is embedded in the TV stream. Since I also can input manually any time any day or weekly, monthly....... I don't really need the guide. Sorry Mediaportal but it is the simple solution to TV recording I was looking for. Thanks