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<blockquote data-quote="GeorgeIoak" data-source="post: 846759" data-attributes="member: 18976">Let me explain what I am doing and maybe that will help. I am only using a TV Tuner card for ATSC signals. I installed the XMLTV add-in in MediaPortal and then I use MC2XML to grab the guide and place it into the tvguide.xml file. MP then grabs this tvguide.xml file and imports it into the databse so your EPG has information (how and when this happens I'm stll a little unclear on!). I created a service in windows that runs MC2XML every morning so the guide information is always updated.&nbsp;Episodescanner looks at information in the MP database and then uses that information to go query <a href="http://www.thetvdb.com" target="_blank">www.thetvdb.com</a> database and if it finds a match it then populates the season and episode number fields in the MP database. So far for me this seems to be working well for one scheduled recording (which BTW episodescanner just looks for shows that you have scheduled, it doesn't add season and episode numbers for everything, just shows you have scheduled.&nbsp;I'm not familiar with xmltvgui so I'll have to look into it.&nbsp;Right now I have a problem with episodescanner (ES for short) for one program because of how <a href="http://www.thetvdb.com" target="_blank">www.thetvdb.com</a> stores information. I'm thinking of trying to add a feature to ES for programs that have 2 shows in 1 episode (common for kids programs). The moderators have decided that each individual show should havce an episode number even though the official show's site and other databases define an episode as when the program aired. Many of them will then be tagged at 201.1/201.2 or 201.A/201.B but over at thetvdb they number each show so it becomes 201 and 202 which then breaks the connection to the official site and other databases.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GeorgeIoak, post: 846759, member: 18976"] Let me explain what I am doing and maybe that will help. I am only using a TV Tuner card for ATSC signals. I installed the XMLTV add-in in MediaPortal and then I use MC2XML to grab the guide and place it into the tvguide.xml file. MP then grabs this tvguide.xml file and imports it into the databse so your EPG has information (how and when this happens I'm stll a little unclear on!). I created a service in windows that runs MC2XML every morning so the guide information is always updated. Episodescanner looks at information in the MP database and then uses that information to go query [URL='http://www.thetvdb.com']www.thetvdb.com[/URL] database and if it finds a match it then populates the season and episode number fields in the MP database. So far for me this seems to be working well for one scheduled recording (which BTW episodescanner just looks for shows that you have scheduled, it doesn't add season and episode numbers for everything, just shows you have scheduled. I'm not familiar with xmltvgui so I'll have to look into it. Right now I have a problem with episodescanner (ES for short) for one program because of how [URL='http://www.thetvdb.com']www.thetvdb.com[/URL] stores information. I'm thinking of trying to add a feature to ES for programs that have 2 shows in 1 episode (common for kids programs). The moderators have decided that each individual show should havce an episode number even though the official show's site and other databases define an episode as when the program aired. Many of them will then be tagged at 201.1/201.2 or 201.A/201.B but over at thetvdb they number each show so it becomes 201 and 202 which then breaks the connection to the official site and other databases. [/QUOTE]

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