Manual recording (1 Viewer)

[docsell6]

I have installed Media Portal to a DX2300 pc running Windows XP Pro.

Media Portal seems to be running. I have scanned channels and I used the test facility in the TV server configuration program to record a test file.

I have read the Wiki up and down and sideways but I still cannot get the TV guide to populate.
So, I really don't care , I can manually record programs.

My question is about manual recording. I searched and searched the Wiki for information, I can't find any about manually recording. So I started Media Portal and clicked the appropriate buttons for manual recording. I find the manual recording to be less than desired. It asked me for the channel, when I wanted to start recording and then the program displayed program lengths. I selected 30 minutes.

The manual recording process never asked me for the name of the program I was going to record. I only had preset program lengths to select. May be I am missing something. Even a very dumb program like Total Media asks for the name of the program and will name the output file with the name you enter. Media Portal named the manually recorded program as manual - 9 - 2012-06-06.ts How am i supposed to know what this file contains?

What am i missing? Please don't just tell me to look in the Wiki, please give me a LINK to a comprehensive discussion of manual recording.

Thank you.

 

[HTPCSourcer]

docsell6,

there is no feature to rename TV recordings once they are done. The respective info is coming from the EPG data, which you are lacking. I would kindly suggest that you keep working on getting the EPG to run. Posting your logs might be a good start to get some help from the community to resolve this issue.

regards, HTPC_Sourcer