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<blockquote data-quote="rsbrux" data-source="post: 1283156" data-attributes="member: 49539"><p>[USER=141969]@CyberSimian[/USER] </p><p>Thanks for responding, but I'm afraid I don't quite follow you. If the MP client doesn't consult the TV server to display recordings, then I don't understand why:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">TV server must be running to show recordings in the MP client.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The recordings must first have been <a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Recording#Recording-Databaseimport" target="_blank">imported into TV server</a>.</li> </ol><p>The <a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Recording#Recording-Databaseimport" target="_blank">wiki page mentioned above</a> supports your thesis, saying " MediaPortal only differentiates between channels by their names ". However, this doesn't jibe with my experience. I have loaded logos for all of the different name variants of my channels into c:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\tv\logos\ (see attached zipfile), but the older recordings still show no channel logos. I have also attached a zipfile containing most of the recording XML files, so you can see that there are logos for the channel names contained in them. In fact, there are cases where I have a new recording and an old one with the same channel name, but the channel logo is only displayed for the newer one.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Recording#Recording-Databaseimport" target="_blank">The wiki article</a> also makes me wonder if I couldn't fix the problem by re-importing the recordings, but since they are already in the DB, none appear on the "Database import" tab and I don't see any way to reset the DB, short of going into SQL Server Management Studio and dropping tables, which could go horribly wrong. I suppose I could try moving all recording to a new folder, but what would happen to all of the DB entries referencing non-existent files?</p><p></p><p>This also brings up a question which has long bothered me out of idle curiosity: Most of my recordings wind up directly in the folder specified on <a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Recording#Recording-Folders" target="_blank">the "Folders" tab</a>, but a few get stored in subfolders of the form .\channel\title\. I have observed this peculiarity in MP going back for years. Is there any rhyme or reason to this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rsbrux, post: 1283156, member: 49539"] [USER=141969]@CyberSimian[/USER] Thanks for responding, but I'm afraid I don't quite follow you. If the MP client doesn't consult the TV server to display recordings, then I don't understand why: [LIST=1] [*]TV server must be running to show recordings in the MP client. [*]The recordings must first have been [URL='https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Recording#Recording-Databaseimport']imported into TV server[/URL]. [/LIST] The [URL='https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Recording#Recording-Databaseimport']wiki page mentioned above[/URL] supports your thesis, saying " MediaPortal only differentiates between channels by their names ". However, this doesn't jibe with my experience. I have loaded logos for all of the different name variants of my channels into c:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\tv\logos\ (see attached zipfile), but the older recordings still show no channel logos. I have also attached a zipfile containing most of the recording XML files, so you can see that there are logos for the channel names contained in them. In fact, there are cases where I have a new recording and an old one with the same channel name, but the channel logo is only displayed for the newer one. [URL='https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Recording#Recording-Databaseimport']The wiki article[/URL] also makes me wonder if I couldn't fix the problem by re-importing the recordings, but since they are already in the DB, none appear on the "Database import" tab and I don't see any way to reset the DB, short of going into SQL Server Management Studio and dropping tables, which could go horribly wrong. I suppose I could try moving all recording to a new folder, but what would happen to all of the DB entries referencing non-existent files? This also brings up a question which has long bothered me out of idle curiosity: Most of my recordings wind up directly in the folder specified on [URL='https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Recording#Recording-Folders']the "Folders" tab[/URL], but a few get stored in subfolders of the form .\channel\title\. I have observed this peculiarity in MP going back for years. Is there any rhyme or reason to this? [/QUOTE]
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