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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1279355" data-attributes="member: 141969"><p>The <a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/XmlTv+Plugin" target="_blank">Wiki</a> explains the action of this setting quite well; it says this:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Delete old programs before import (Recommended)</strong></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Tick this option if you want the contents of your EPG to be deleted before a new tvguide.xml is imported. A reason for doing this is that some TV guide sources may have programmes listed 14 days in advance, however the TV companies may not have confirmed all their schedules this far forward so the guide might contain entries such as <em>To be confirmed</em> or <em>Film to be confirmed</em>. These will be loaded into the EPG database and MediaPortal sees them as a normal programme. This is not too much of a problem while they are 10-14 days off, but as current days age off a large proportion of your EPG may end up as <em>To be confirmed</em>. <strong>The normal XMLTV import will only add new EPG entries where none exist in the database. It will not update existing ones.</strong> Deleting all the old programs before import ensures that the EPG data in the database is up to date as the tvguide.xml being imported.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I use the DVB-T EPG in the UK, but I have had a couple of instances where "TV Server" recorded a programme twice, slightly displaced in time. Previously I used the "grab EPG while timeshifting/recording" setting with a one hour refresh interval. What happened is that a news broadcast was extended, and the programme that I wanted to record was delayed by 10 minutes, but "TV Server" started the recording at the original time. However, it just so happened that the next EPG grab occurred after the original start time, and before the revised start time, so "TV Server" noticed that there was a "new" programme that was part of the series and which was not the one already recording (different start and stop times), so it started recording that too, even though it was on the same channel. Both recordings finished at their respective stop times, so a non-stop recording did not occur in this case.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It would be pleasing to think that this problem would be fixed within the next few weeks, but sadly I think it more likely that you will still be waiting for a fix ten years from now <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":cry:" title="Crying :cry:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cry:" />. However, at least you now know the combination of circumstances that trigger this error, so it is within your power to stop it recurring.</p><p></p><p>-- from CyberSimian in the UK</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1279355, member: 141969"] The [URL='https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/XmlTv+Plugin']Wiki[/URL] explains the action of this setting quite well; it says this: [INDENT][SIZE=5][B]Delete old programs before import (Recommended)[/B][/SIZE][/INDENT] [INDENT]Tick this option if you want the contents of your EPG to be deleted before a new tvguide.xml is imported. A reason for doing this is that some TV guide sources may have programmes listed 14 days in advance, however the TV companies may not have confirmed all their schedules this far forward so the guide might contain entries such as [I]To be confirmed[/I] or [I]Film to be confirmed[/I]. These will be loaded into the EPG database and MediaPortal sees them as a normal programme. This is not too much of a problem while they are 10-14 days off, but as current days age off a large proportion of your EPG may end up as [I]To be confirmed[/I]. [B]The normal XMLTV import will only add new EPG entries where none exist in the database. It will not update existing ones.[/B] Deleting all the old programs before import ensures that the EPG data in the database is up to date as the tvguide.xml being imported.[/INDENT] I use the DVB-T EPG in the UK, but I have had a couple of instances where "TV Server" recorded a programme twice, slightly displaced in time. Previously I used the "grab EPG while timeshifting/recording" setting with a one hour refresh interval. What happened is that a news broadcast was extended, and the programme that I wanted to record was delayed by 10 minutes, but "TV Server" started the recording at the original time. However, it just so happened that the next EPG grab occurred after the original start time, and before the revised start time, so "TV Server" noticed that there was a "new" programme that was part of the series and which was not the one already recording (different start and stop times), so it started recording that too, even though it was on the same channel. Both recordings finished at their respective stop times, so a non-stop recording did not occur in this case. It would be pleasing to think that this problem would be fixed within the next few weeks, but sadly I think it more likely that you will still be waiting for a fix ten years from now :cry:. However, at least you now know the combination of circumstances that trigger this error, so it is within your power to stop it recurring. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]
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