UK DVB-T epg - nothing grabbed (1 Viewer)

[Nemulate]

Good to hear you're going to persevere with the tv engine, I'm sure the more that can test it the better it will become!

 

[chenks]

just tried todays build from 20:03... and it grabbed the UK EPG in just over 30 mins - much improvement!

 

[HappyTalk]

OK I ran SVN 10th Jan
tvengine3-01-10-2007--01-12h--Rev12587 +
MediaPortal-svn--01-10-2007--00-59-Rev12587.exe

Running Refresh EPG in TV Server config DID now grab EPG info. However some channels aren't grabbed as it seems to think it has already grabbed them earlier when it hadn't? Namely BBC FOUR, Parliament and a few of the radio channels. It seemed to take an hour and a half from being kicked off before info began to filter through according to the epg.log (file attached). Prior to this I had just watched TV for a few hours, but it didn't grab any info, so AFAIK it's only grabbed info so far when I pressed refresh EPG from TV Server and left it running overnight without running the MP Client. TV Client watching began again at 11/01/2007 08:15. I'll update log of epg.log does grab while actually watching TV

Now that I have EPG info, I can actually run it and it seems pretty stable enough to use. Channel changing sometimes starts playing something you watched earlier from buffer (stop tv/select new channel cures it) and I can't seem to stop TV on a client (unless exit to homepage and press stop). I'll see if EPG gets updated over next few days (ie on sat has TV to next sat). Looking pretty cool though...

 

[tourettes]

Running Refresh EPG in TV Server config DID now grab EPG info. However some channels aren't grabbed as it seems to think it has already grabbed them earlier when it hadn't? Namely BBC FOUR, Parliament and a few of the radio channels. It seemed to take an hour and a half from being kicked off before info began to filter through according to the epg.log (file attached). Prior to this I had just watched TV for a few hours, but it didn't grab any info, so AFAIK it's only grabbed info so far when I pressed refresh EPG from TV Server and left it runnig overnight without running the MP Client.

TV server will grab EPG data only when the server is idling (no watching or recording ongoing).

 

[HappyTalk]

TV server will grab EPG data only when the server is idling (no watching or recording ongoing).

I presume if you have 2 cards and only 1 is being used it still won't try and grab EPG on the other card either as the idea is to not to do things that may cause stutter? which is fine. Though If somone uses MP like a set-top box they may well never actually turn the TV off. Does it grab EPG when you are watching back a recording, so tuners are not in use?

OK it has now grabbed EPG info for all channels so maybe I was focusing too much on it cos of earlier probs and not giving it a chance. It seems to get EPG for radio channels that are unticked in EPG page as well, so I just deleted them completely (teletext/game thingies). There may be an initial issue with it ignoring EPG for channels it thinks it had already got.

 

[tourettes]

TV server will grab EPG data only when the server is idling (no watching or recording ongoing).

I presume if you have 2 cards and only 1 is being used it still won't try and grab EPG on the other card either as the idea is to not to do things that may cause stutter? which is fine. Though If somone uses MP like a set-top box they may well never actually turn the TV off. Does it grab EPG when you are watching back a recording, so tuners are not in use.

Yes, tv engine will grab EPG when all tuners are in the idle state.

 

[guyf]

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Hi There,

I have 5 tunercards and always 1 is being timeshifted or in recording.
Can EPG be grabbed with a higher priority?

Thanks in advance
Guy forssman