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<blockquote data-quote="southpaw" data-source="post: 1164910" data-attributes="member: 156526">Greetings all,I am new to MediaPortal having recently installed it as a possible future replacement to WMC.&nbsp; After a bit of work and the fine help available online I have the system up and running and recording OTA - USA broadcasts.&nbsp; I have MCEBuddy watching the recorded TV folder, stripping commercials, converting to MP4 and storing the resulting file in a Plex media server folder.I am using schedules direct for guide data and I ran into an issue where the recoded program XML file list the episode number as (for example) Episode: 512 rather than Season: 5 Episode: 12.&nbsp; I can get around this using the SchedulesDirect EPG Client plugin by ticking the option to fetch season and episode data from&nbsp; TheTVDB.com.&nbsp; I would however prefer not to use this plugin but I have not been able to figure out how to get around this issue using the XmlTV plugin.&nbsp; I feel it necessary to overcome this issue if I ever want to switch to MP2.&nbsp; I wrote to Schedules Direct support and got the following response.<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">&gt; I am trying to use Mediaportal 1.12.0 with the XmlTV plugin and</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">&gt; Schedules Direct for OTA broadcast in Milwaukee Wisconsin.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">&gt; Unfortunately the data comes across for example as Episode:512</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">&gt; rather than Season:5 Episode:12.</li>
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The JSON service has proper Season / Episode information; the XML service doesn't. (The XML service provider never actually included S/E, just &quot;production codes&quot;, which aren't the same thing.)</li>
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</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">I don't know if Mediaportal has support for the JSON service; have you asked in the MePo Newcomer's forum?</li>
</ul>Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="southpaw, post: 1164910, member: 156526"] Greetings all, I am new to MediaPortal having recently installed it as a possible future replacement to WMC. After a bit of work and the fine help available online I have the system up and running and recording OTA - USA broadcasts. I have MCEBuddy watching the recorded TV folder, stripping commercials, converting to MP4 and storing the resulting file in a Plex media server folder. I am using schedules direct for guide data and I ran into an issue where the recoded program XML file list the episode number as (for example) Episode: 512 rather than Season: 5 Episode: 12. I can get around this using the SchedulesDirect EPG Client plugin by ticking the option to fetch season and episode data from TheTVDB.com. I would however prefer not to use this plugin but I have not been able to figure out how to get around this issue using the XmlTV plugin. I feel it necessary to overcome this issue if I ever want to switch to MP2. I wrote to Schedules Direct support and got the following response. [LIST] [*]> I am trying to use Mediaportal 1.12.0 with the XmlTV plugin and [*]> Schedules Direct for OTA broadcast in Milwaukee Wisconsin. [*]> Unfortunately the data comes across for example as Episode:512 [*]> rather than Season:5 Episode:12. [*] [*]The JSON service has proper Season / Episode information; the XML service doesn't. (The XML service provider never actually included S/E, just "production codes", which aren't the same thing.) [*] [*]I don't know if Mediaportal has support for the JSON service; have you asked in the MePo Newcomer's forum? [/LIST] Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. [/QUOTE]

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