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<blockquote data-quote="luci5r" data-source="post: 751676" data-attributes="member: 113478">AHA!!Believe it or not, this post of yours cleared up a LOT for me! First I must appreciate your persistent effort in helping me out. I now have Cable Programming in my Media Portal!!! Thanks to you - I was able to configure everything to the point where I could finally get programming in MediaPortal. I also discovered what was making things complicated - You are 100% correct!!! Indeed - on WinTV or MC7 we can only watch the channel that is currently tuned on the STB!!! And quite honestly that is *ALL* I thought we &quot;Could&quot; do - and that is *ALL* that I was trying to accomplish. Simply for I did not know you could do more!!! I understand now all this EPG business!! You're actually trying to run the Guide and thus switch to programming of choice from within MediaPortal - rather then relying on your STB!!! Fantastic - now that I have accomplished getting programming in MediaPortal - I would love to go ahead and get the EPG &amp; the rest situated. Let me backtrack a tad: you were right, indeed I needed SPDIF #2. Also, yes I deleted the other choices. After that I could get the cable programming in MediaPortal. Regarding EPG, I followed a post in one of the threads you posted and I was able to get an xmltv.dtd &amp; xmltv.xml (which I renamed to &quot;tvguide.xml&quot;) using an mc2xml program. I imported the guide using the &quot;XMLTV&quot; plugin and it said &quot;516&quot; imported. When I go into MediaPortal - I can still watch live TV - however, when I click on TV Guide - I get &quot;No Data Available&quot;. Do you know what I'm doing wrong?Thanks!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="luci5r, post: 751676, member: 113478"] AHA!! Believe it or not, this post of yours cleared up a LOT for me! First I must appreciate your persistent effort in helping me out. I now have Cable Programming in my Media Portal!!! Thanks to you - I was able to configure everything to the point where I could finally get programming in MediaPortal. I also discovered what was making things complicated - You are 100% correct!!! Indeed - on WinTV or MC7 we can only watch the channel that is currently tuned on the STB!!! And quite honestly that is *ALL* I thought we "Could" do - and that is *ALL* that I was trying to accomplish. Simply for I did not know you could do more!!! I understand now all this EPG business!! You're actually trying to run the Guide and thus switch to programming of choice from within MediaPortal - rather then relying on your STB!!! Fantastic - now that I have accomplished getting programming in MediaPortal - I would love to go ahead and get the EPG & the rest situated. Let me backtrack a tad: you were right, indeed I needed SPDIF #2. Also, yes I deleted the other choices. After that I could get the cable programming in MediaPortal. Regarding EPG, I followed a post in one of the threads you posted and I was able to get an xmltv.dtd & xmltv.xml (which I renamed to "tvguide.xml") using an mc2xml program. I imported the guide using the "XMLTV" plugin and it said "516" imported. When I go into MediaPortal - I can still watch live TV - however, when I click on TV Guide - I get "No Data Available". Do you know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!! [/QUOTE]

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