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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1276373" data-attributes="member: 109222"><p>Hi.</p><p>The grabbing is a two pass thing. The first pass is to download the raw data from tvguide.com. This is normally really fast (only a few minutes). The second pass is to compare the EPG data with TVDB to add missing season and episodes numbers and also missing descriptions to TV shows in the resulting EPG. This takes it's time as there are thousands and thousands of episodes to compare... EPG-Buddy caches the information downloaded so on the second, third,... run this time decreases a lot. The very first time may last several hours depending on your internet speed and the amount of channels/days you have... You can disable the whole comparing, if you are not interested in those extras. Then it will take only some minutes to grab the data. And you also can (and should) disable this for some channels, eg news or sports channels who don't air TV shows...</p><p>Personally I have about 60 channels I grab EPG for and about 35 channels to compare with TVDB. . The first run lasts about 7-8 hours. Next day this lasts only 45 minutes. If you have several hundreds of channels it will probably last many hours on first run. There is no way to avoid this excerpt with skipping the compare completely...</p><p></p><p>Once all is settled and running invisible in the background, the needed time is not that important any more. Especially if the system where EPG-Buddy is installed on is running 24/7...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1276373, member: 109222"] Hi. The grabbing is a two pass thing. The first pass is to download the raw data from tvguide.com. This is normally really fast (only a few minutes). The second pass is to compare the EPG data with TVDB to add missing season and episodes numbers and also missing descriptions to TV shows in the resulting EPG. This takes it's time as there are thousands and thousands of episodes to compare... EPG-Buddy caches the information downloaded so on the second, third,... run this time decreases a lot. The very first time may last several hours depending on your internet speed and the amount of channels/days you have... You can disable the whole comparing, if you are not interested in those extras. Then it will take only some minutes to grab the data. And you also can (and should) disable this for some channels, eg news or sports channels who don't air TV shows... Personally I have about 60 channels I grab EPG for and about 35 channels to compare with TVDB. . The first run lasts about 7-8 hours. Next day this lasts only 45 minutes. If you have several hundreds of channels it will probably last many hours on first run. There is no way to avoid this excerpt with skipping the compare completely... Once all is settled and running invisible in the background, the needed time is not that important any more. Especially if the system where EPG-Buddy is installed on is running 24/7... [/QUOTE]
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