recording programs broadcast in HD & SD (1 Viewer)

[CyberSimian]

As far as I've found, only the TVWishlist plugin copes with this. I'm also in the UK and I use the Alan Birtles grabber to get the Radio Times data. This gives me series and episode numbers which TVWishlist uses in conjunction with data in the recordings database to sort things out. Works for me - very very few failures.

Thanks for the info. I am currently a Windows Media Center user, but have been contemplating migrating to MediaPortal for some months. I have experimented with MP a bit, but not so far looked at any plug-ins. I will put the ones that you mention on the "to do" list!

-- from CyberSimian in the UK[DOUBLEPOST=1401447268][/DOUBLEPOST]

Not the series ID... but potentially the episode ID, depending on your guide data source and method of importing it into TV Server.

The series id and programme id in the UK broadcast EPG are not human-readable numbers such as "S3 E13" (which seems to be what most posters mean when they talk about series number and episode number).

The series id and programme id in the UK broadcast EPG are unique hexadecimal strings for use by software. For example, the BBC will occasionally schedule as a series a set of one-off programmes on a particular subject. These programmes all have different titles, and so would not be viewed as a series by any scheduling software that uses the title to identify programmes in the series. But these programmes DO all have the same series id, and so dedicated PVRs in the UK that use the series id (such as my Humax HDR FOX T2) would record all programmes in that series.

-- from CyberSimian in the UK