RC3, upgrading and TV (1 Viewer)

[NorthernJohn]

Hi

I've been out of the loop for a while, been happilly running 0.2.2.0+svn with pretty good stability (and WAF).

I'm having a couple of issues creeping in since a house move and may take the opportunity to upgrade to RC3 to see if that helps.

I have a couple of questions:

1. What is the TV component of RC3? Is it the built in TVengine or do I need to go through the full TVserver install? For my needs the built in engine has always done the job.

2. Does the TV server pick up the epg from the DVB-T signal? That could swing my decision. Grabbers and aligning with the channel list was always a nightmare for me.

3. Is the upgrade path a complete uninstall and reinstall?


John

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Does the TV server pick up the epg from the DVB-T signal? That could swing my decision. Grabbers and aligning with the channel list was always a nightmare for me

That works fine.

Actually found TVE3 more reliable than MyTV because of MP crashing every so often.

Is the upgrade path a complete uninstall and reinstall

A lot of the database info has changed, so upgrading is advised as a clean installation (i tried but a few things screwed up).

 

[flokel]

Hi
1. What is the TV component of RC3? Is it the built in TVengine or do I need to go through the full TVserver install? For my needs the built in engine has always done the job.

You do not need to install the TVServer,
RC3 uses the build in tv engine.

 

[NorthernJohn]

Thanks for the replies.

You do not need to install the TVServer,
RC3 uses the build in tv engine.

But then I'd have to use epg grabbers rather than get the listings off the DVB-T signal. Correct? This point will determine whether I go with the server or MyTV.

Cheers

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

But then I'd have to use epg grabbers rather than get the listings off the DVB-T signal. Correct? This point will determine whether I go with the server or MyTV.

Both TV versions grab epg for me, TV2 you have to be at some point connected to each multiplex, to get full epg, TVE3 cycles through different multiplex's so it pulls in data for all received channels whilst idle.

 

[NorthernJohn]

I see. That's clear now. Thanks

 

[NorthernJohn]

Sorry to bump this but I have another related q.

I have a few things in my recorded tv and a few things on advanced schedule to be recorded. With previous upgrades, I was able to Backup my tv library and import it back in, thereby not losing any information about the recordings.

Is this still possible with the revamped database in RC3?

Cheers

 

[igalan]

I have upgraded to RC3 by uninstalling RC2, deleting everything remaining, then set up RC3 from scratch and then recovering the TV and video databases (well, and TV logos); that borught back all my recordings, schedules, etc. I don't think they have changed in any way. Don't keep the xml config files, though, that's a sure way to get into trouble.