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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1099446" data-attributes="member: 141969">I am a recent convert to MP, having used Windows Media Center for five years.&nbsp; I also have a Humax PVR for &quot;emergency backup&quot;.&nbsp; In the UK we are lucky in that the EPG broadcast in the DVB-T/T2 MUXes contains unique programme ids for each programme, along with series ids for each series.&nbsp; This is what the Humax uses to ensure that all episodes in a series are recorded, whilst at the same time avoiding recording repeats.&nbsp; Unfortunately, MP does not use this information.There is an extension for obtaining the Sky EPG along with its series-record info, so if you are using satellite there might be something there that could give you what you desire (look for contributions from &quot;DJBlu&quot;).&nbsp;&nbsp; I shall be interested to see what more-experienced MP users can suggest, especially for users of DVB-T/T2 in the UK.In the absence of a suitable extension, the only choice remaining is to select as carefully as possible which of the 8 recording options will best suit what you want to record (and this will vary from channel to channel, and series to series).&nbsp; For weekly programmes, I like option 8 &quot;weekly on this channel&quot;.&nbsp; It restricts recording to one channel and one day of the week, but without requiring the programme to be broadcast at the same time each week, i.e. the programme can be broadcast earlier or later on the selected day, and MP will still record it.&nbsp; For the programmes that I watch, it is rare for a weekly programme to be repeated on the same channel and the same day, so option 8 eliminates many repeats.To find out which programmes are repeats, I would suggest purchasing each week the &quot;Radio Times&quot; (other listings magazines are available).&nbsp; Even that is not 100% correct, but in the five years that I used WMC, I found the &quot;Radio Times&quot; repeat indicator to be more accurate than the &quot;Repeat&quot; flag in the Microsoft downloaded EPG.-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1099446, member: 141969"] I am a recent convert to MP, having used Windows Media Center for five years. I also have a Humax PVR for "emergency backup". In the UK we are lucky in that the EPG broadcast in the DVB-T/T2 MUXes contains unique programme ids for each programme, along with series ids for each series. This is what the Humax uses to ensure that all episodes in a series are recorded, whilst at the same time avoiding recording repeats. Unfortunately, MP does not use this information. There is an extension for obtaining the Sky EPG along with its series-record info, so if you are using satellite there might be something there that could give you what you desire (look for contributions from "DJBlu"). I shall be interested to see what more-experienced MP users can suggest, especially for users of DVB-T/T2 in the UK. In the absence of a suitable extension, the only choice remaining is to select as carefully as possible which of the 8 recording options will best suit what you want to record (and this will vary from channel to channel, and series to series). For weekly programmes, I like option 8 "weekly on this channel". It restricts recording to one channel and one day of the week, but without requiring the programme to be broadcast at the same time each week, i.e. the programme can be broadcast earlier or later on the selected day, and MP will still record it. For the programmes that I watch, it is rare for a weekly programme to be repeated on the same channel and the same day, so option 8 eliminates many repeats. To find out which programmes are repeats, I would suggest purchasing each week the "Radio Times" (other listings magazines are available). Even that is not 100% correct, but in the five years that I used WMC, I found the "Radio Times" repeat indicator to be more accurate than the "Repeat" flag in the Microsoft downloaded EPG. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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