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<blockquote data-quote="Koen Zomers" data-source="post: 709995" data-attributes="member: 108135">powermarcel10, did you manage to fix this problem? I'm experiencing the same problem. I found out that DVBLink version 3.2 does not broadcast EPG data on the emulated DVB-S tuners anymore whereas DVBLink version 3.1 still did according to the rumors. Haven't tested this myself. What I did for the moment is enable direct access to one of my DVB-C tuners in Team Media Portal TV Server, but make it have the lowest priority (so it will be chosen last, after the four emulated DVB-S tuners from DVBLink). Then open up the database used by Team Media Portal. In the table where the tuners are listed (don't know it's name from my head, but let me know if I need to look up its name for you), there is a column which has a boolean flag (True/False) to indicate if the card should be used for EPG grabbing. I set them all to false except the direct access to the DVB-C tuner. This will cause TVServer to grab EPG data directly from the tuner, but stream TV from one of the four emulated DVB-S tuners. It seems to work well, however I wonder what happens if conflicts arise between DVBLink and TVServer wanting to talk to the same physical DVB-C tuner at the same time. Time will tell.If anyone has a better solution, please do tell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Koen Zomers, post: 709995, member: 108135"] powermarcel10, did you manage to fix this problem? I'm experiencing the same problem. I found out that DVBLink version 3.2 does not broadcast EPG data on the emulated DVB-S tuners anymore whereas DVBLink version 3.1 still did according to the rumors. Haven't tested this myself. What I did for the moment is enable direct access to one of my DVB-C tuners in Team Media Portal TV Server, but make it have the lowest priority (so it will be chosen last, after the four emulated DVB-S tuners from DVBLink). Then open up the database used by Team Media Portal. In the table where the tuners are listed (don't know it's name from my head, but let me know if I need to look up its name for you), there is a column which has a boolean flag (True/False) to indicate if the card should be used for EPG grabbing. I set them all to false except the direct access to the DVB-C tuner. This will cause TVServer to grab EPG data directly from the tuner, but stream TV from one of the four emulated DVB-S tuners. It seems to work well, however I wonder what happens if conflicts arise between DVBLink and TVServer wanting to talk to the same physical DVB-C tuner at the same time. Time will tell. If anyone has a better solution, please do tell. [/QUOTE]

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