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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1257857" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.This is a windows 10 issue that can't be worked around easily. It is not allowed for a "normal" program to directly start another program from inside "C:\Program Files". When the settings are stored that needs a restart to become active a small tool that only waits for a second, starts the main program and then exit itself.  Way too often this helper- tool will be identified as a "Virus". And this tool is not started when it is called from inside the main program but only when the main program is installed in C:\Program Files (x86).   That's why I've installed the program for my own use to a different place. And I will change the default installation path in one of the next releases to circumvent this... An issue with missing "" around the path is not really possible as this has worked earlier and stops working with one of the "legendary" Windows 10 updates (didn't exactly remember which one)  and never came back to work again... In some way. You can decide to grab data or not for every channel. E.G. on sports or news channel there is not much sense in grabbing series information as there most likely no series are aired on those channels...  And you can overwrite the given description in EPG source with the one from TVDB or if those TVDB description only is used to fill "empty" descriptions. I prefer the later as on TVDB often a localized description is missing (I'm Geman and want to read descriptions in German language, if possible).You're assuming right... The very first run of the grabber is lasting until eternity because you need to grab EPG data for the whole 14 days and you need to download TVDB info for 5000++ series (depending on how much different series are aired). On the second run most needed data is downloaded already that saves a ton of time.. Only new series and/or episodes info is downloaded if available. Similar is for EPG-Data. Depending on the source his also will save a lot of time as already downloaded data is used.Yes we have thought about this. But as it did not make sense to anyone not speaking English because IMDB only has English descriptions available we never started to implement this. If we some day will do something like this we definitely won't use IMDB as data source. Aside this there is much less advantage compared to series. Movies normally will have a description in EPG data. Other fields like actors or similar is not used by most TV engines out there. And the possibility for errors is much higher on movies if you only have the name to identify the movie...I think to add direct support for more EPG data sources would be much more useful than IMDB support. We're thinking about horizon.tv as next data source because this will have EPG data for most European countries. So the need for the slow and complicated WebGrab will decrease a lot. But I can't tell you when or even if we will do this...</blockquote>

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