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<blockquote data-quote="OgdenP" data-source="post: 174607" data-attributes="member: 54818">I've just recently (in the last two weeks) installed MP for the first time and was reasonably happy with the installation. By far the most confusing part of MP is the EPG.What would be very useful would be better explanations of what is needed/what your choices are and for the more advanced user, the mechanism involved. I have many years experience with computers and have been using other applications (webscheduler) for free to air recording for many months and have always had working EPG's from various different sources. Unfortunately, I had no end of problems coming to grips with the way MP does things. I have a multitude of programs that can create a &quot;tvguide.xml&quot; file, but the method of getting that file to be read initially seemed to be a mystery, no matter how much I read. Only after PM'ing another user was I informed that XMLTV was required to load the data into MP. My assumption was that the XMLTV program was a utility to source the program guide, not to load alternative program giudes into MP.Nevertheless, the program is very good and once the final bugs are ironed out of TV Engine 3, it will be awsome. Much kudos to the developers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OgdenP, post: 174607, member: 54818"] I've just recently (in the last two weeks) installed MP for the first time and was reasonably happy with the installation. By far the most confusing part of MP is the EPG. What would be very useful would be better explanations of what is needed/what your choices are and for the more advanced user, the mechanism involved. I have many years experience with computers and have been using other applications (webscheduler) for free to air recording for many months and have always had working EPG's from various different sources. Unfortunately, I had no end of problems coming to grips with the way MP does things. I have a multitude of programs that can create a "tvguide.xml" file, but the method of getting that file to be read initially seemed to be a mystery, no matter how much I read. Only after PM'ing another user was I informed that XMLTV was required to load the data into MP. My assumption was that the XMLTV program was a utility to source the program guide, not to load alternative program giudes into MP. Nevertheless, the program is very good and once the final bugs are ironed out of TV Engine 3, it will be awsome. Much kudos to the developers. [/QUOTE]

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