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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1095887" data-attributes="member: 141969">The first problem that I had was downloading the file correctly!&nbsp; The Opera browser that I use gave me a place holder file that told me I had to enable redirection.&nbsp; I eventually found where to do that and downloaded the file successfully.The new file fixes the problem with the sample shown in the original screen shot, with the width of one &quot;n&quot; between the end of the programme title and the start of the genre text.&nbsp; However, scrolling around the EPG I found three longer programme titles.&nbsp; Two of the titles overlapped the genre text, but the titles themselves were not long enough to scroll; see the new screen shot &quot;absolute_radio&quot;.&nbsp; The third title was even longer, and so the title itself scrolled, but that programme did not have any genre, so there was no text overlap visible; see new screen shot &quot;hits_radio&quot;.So some further adjustment is needed.&nbsp; I am happy to adjust the value(s) in the xml file, but in looking at the EPG I wondered if a different solution was possible.&nbsp; Two alternatives occur to me:(1) The penultimate line on the radio EPG screen is the name of the radio station, followed by a large number of blanks.&nbsp; I would expect most radio stations to have short names, meaning that there would be plenty of room to accommodate the programme start and end times plus programme duration, to the right of the station name.&nbsp; The last line would need to display only the programme title and genre text, and scrolling would then be a lot less likely.(2) My second suggestion is to make the radio EPG more consistent with the TV EPG.&nbsp; In the TV EPG, the penultimate line shows the programme title, and the last line shows the programme start and end times, plus genre text; the channel name is not shown.&nbsp; (When live TV is playing, the genre text is omitted, and text below the thumbnail shows the name of the live TV station.)The two other DVR/MC products that I have used (a Humax PVR, and Windows MC) have both treated radio and TV identically, and I think that that is the right design.&nbsp; So I would actually vote for alternative (2) -- make the radio and TV EPGs identical.&nbsp; I think that displaying the programme duration is useful, so I would add that to the TV EPG.&nbsp; I am less convinced that the station/channel name is required, so I might omit that from the radio EPG if space is limited.Edit: ignore the following -- I realise now that it is entering the &quot;power saving mode&quot; that reduces the screen refresh rate.&nbsp; Doh!<s>There is one other quirk that I noticed while testing this.&nbsp; The auto-scrolling of long text works fine on initial entry to the EPG, but after several minutes it slows to a crawl; it is so slow that one can see the individual movements, so the result is a &quot;juddery&quot; look.</s>-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1095887, member: 141969"] The first problem that I had was downloading the file correctly! The Opera browser that I use gave me a place holder file that told me I had to enable redirection. I eventually found where to do that and downloaded the file successfully. The new file fixes the problem with the sample shown in the original screen shot, with the width of one "n" between the end of the programme title and the start of the genre text. However, scrolling around the EPG I found three longer programme titles. Two of the titles overlapped the genre text, but the titles themselves were not long enough to scroll; see the new screen shot "absolute_radio". The third title was even longer, and so the title itself scrolled, but that programme did not have any genre, so there was no text overlap visible; see new screen shot "hits_radio". So some further adjustment is needed. I am happy to adjust the value(s) in the xml file, but in looking at the EPG I wondered if a different solution was possible. Two alternatives occur to me: (1) The penultimate line on the radio EPG screen is the name of the radio station, followed by a large number of blanks. I would expect most radio stations to have short names, meaning that there would be plenty of room to accommodate the programme start and end times plus programme duration, to the right of the station name. The last line would need to display only the programme title and genre text, and scrolling would then be a lot less likely. (2) My second suggestion is to make the radio EPG more consistent with the TV EPG. In the TV EPG, the penultimate line shows the programme title, and the last line shows the programme start and end times, plus genre text; the channel name is not shown. (When live TV is playing, the genre text is omitted, and text below the thumbnail shows the name of the live TV station.) The two other DVR/MC products that I have used (a Humax PVR, and Windows MC) have both treated radio and TV identically, and I think that that is the right design. So I would actually vote for alternative (2) -- make the radio and TV EPGs identical. I think that displaying the programme duration is useful, so I would add that to the TV EPG. I am less convinced that the station/channel name is required, so I might omit that from the radio EPG if space is limited. Edit: ignore the following -- I realise now that it is entering the "power saving mode" that reduces the screen refresh rate. Doh! [s]There is one other quirk that I noticed while testing this. The auto-scrolling of long text works fine on initial entry to the EPG, but after several minutes it slows to a crawl; it is so slow that one can see the individual movements, so the result is a "juddery" look.[/s] -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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