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<blockquote data-quote="Andrew H" data-source="post: 802461" data-attributes="member: 56239"><p>Thought I should point out a not so obvious point. While Larzon makes an excellent point about the <em>potential</em> instability of the mc2xml application and Paranoid Delusion prefers the xmltvgui, notice that both of these (posts) are using it in conjunction with a Schedules Direct (SD) account for $20/year. Specifically, I was drawn to mc2xml because it functioned with guide sources <em>other than</em> SD and utilizing the xmltv plug-in (included in MP TV-Server) I am receiving my guide data for free!</p><p></p><p>If a user has a SD subscription there is another means of importing the data --> there is a <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-plugins-47/schedules-direct-us-canadian-mexico-epg-plugin-updated-august-2010-a-26951/" target="_blank">Schedules Direct plug-in </a>that has been maintained... I used to use this myself as it's a one-step operation you set up once and it runs without the need to schedule a Windows task or utilize the xmltv plug-in. Additionally, the SD plug-in now has a tab to assist users in obtaining accurate Season/Episode numbers from <a href="http://thetvdb.com/" target="_blank">thetvdb</a> for those of you using the TV-Series plug-in.</p><p></p><p>As for myself, I'm "cheaping out" and sticking with mc2xml for now... and YES, it also has drawbacks like how often microsoft updates their data and how they populate the fields - often College Football will not indicate which game in the TV-Guide yet the filename will include the team's names! Also, there is often a lack of Season/Episode numbers in the data to which I've found this other really useful application: <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/electronic-program-guide-67/new-tool-episodescanner-adds-series-episodenumbers-your-mediaportal-4tr-epg-76220/" target="_blank">episodescanner</a> which will retrieve them from thetvdb (for those of us in the US) as well as other sites for those of you outside the US. YES, episodescanner has to be scheduled to run (Windows Task Scheduler) which is easy for me since at 4:00 am I run the mc2xml task followed at 4:15 am by this episodescanner utility, viola! </p><p></p><p><strong>I've been really pleased with what all is available to the MediaPortal community - there are a lot of really inventive and caring folks contributing!</strong> I thought I'd take a minute to point out a couple of options, how to make either of these more useful, and provided hyperlinks to the various threads where you can locate the discussion/files.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andrew H, post: 802461, member: 56239"] Thought I should point out a not so obvious point. While Larzon makes an excellent point about the [I]potential[/I] instability of the mc2xml application and Paranoid Delusion prefers the xmltvgui, notice that both of these (posts) are using it in conjunction with a Schedules Direct (SD) account for $20/year. Specifically, I was drawn to mc2xml because it functioned with guide sources [I]other than[/I] SD and utilizing the xmltv plug-in (included in MP TV-Server) I am receiving my guide data for free! If a user has a SD subscription there is another means of importing the data --> there is a [URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-plugins-47/schedules-direct-us-canadian-mexico-epg-plugin-updated-august-2010-a-26951/"]Schedules Direct plug-in [/URL]that has been maintained... I used to use this myself as it's a one-step operation you set up once and it runs without the need to schedule a Windows task or utilize the xmltv plug-in. Additionally, the SD plug-in now has a tab to assist users in obtaining accurate Season/Episode numbers from [URL="http://thetvdb.com/"]thetvdb[/URL] for those of you using the TV-Series plug-in. As for myself, I'm "cheaping out" and sticking with mc2xml for now... and YES, it also has drawbacks like how often microsoft updates their data and how they populate the fields - often College Football will not indicate which game in the TV-Guide yet the filename will include the team's names! Also, there is often a lack of Season/Episode numbers in the data to which I've found this other really useful application: [URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/electronic-program-guide-67/new-tool-episodescanner-adds-series-episodenumbers-your-mediaportal-4tr-epg-76220/"]episodescanner[/URL] which will retrieve them from thetvdb (for those of us in the US) as well as other sites for those of you outside the US. YES, episodescanner has to be scheduled to run (Windows Task Scheduler) which is easy for me since at 4:00 am I run the mc2xml task followed at 4:15 am by this episodescanner utility, viola! [B]I've been really pleased with what all is available to the MediaPortal community - there are a lot of really inventive and caring folks contributing![/B] I thought I'd take a minute to point out a couple of options, how to make either of these more useful, and provided hyperlinks to the various threads where you can locate the discussion/files. [/QUOTE]
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