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<blockquote data-quote="Mew" data-source="post: 190445" data-attributes="member: 29012">Hi rockmeissterYes. Hit the browse button and point it to &quot;C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\XMLTV&quot; if you installed MediaPortal using the default folders. As you are using MCE2005 the xmltv.dtd file should already be in this folder. If you were using Vista you would have to copy it there. The XMLTV plugin will scan for changes in tvguide.xml every minute. So if you run WebEPG.exe to grab the guide, after the new TVguide.xml has written (when the TVguide-writing.xml file in the XMLTV folder has disappeared) the guide should be imported. This may take several minutes. You can check if it has been imported by looking at the &quot;Import status report&quot; section of the XMLTV plugin configuration in the TV Server management console. The channels have to be added to WebEPG manually at present. The channel details are only imported automatically into WebEPG Config if you are using the TV Engine built into MediaPortal. Make sure when you add a channel that the name is exactly the same as it is set up in TVE3 or else the EPG will not be associated with the channel. Then you can pick the grabber details for that channel. Some countries may have more than one grabber that will get the details for the channel so you may have to experiment to find the best one.If you take a backup of the 3 files in the WebEPG folder (WebEPG.bak, WebEPG.xml &amp; WebEPG.xml.bak, you probably only need one of these files as 2 look like backups but I save all 3 to be safe) you will not have to go through the manual process again if anything deletes your MediaPortal installation or you want to do a completely clean install.Mew</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mew, post: 190445, member: 29012"] Hi rockmeisster Yes. Hit the browse button and point it to "C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\XMLTV" if you installed MediaPortal using the default folders. As you are using MCE2005 the xmltv.dtd file should already be in this folder. If you were using Vista you would have to copy it there. The XMLTV plugin will scan for changes in tvguide.xml every minute. So if you run WebEPG.exe to grab the guide, after the new TVguide.xml has written (when the TVguide-writing.xml file in the XMLTV folder has disappeared) the guide should be imported. This may take several minutes. You can check if it has been imported by looking at the "Import status report" section of the XMLTV plugin configuration in the TV Server management console. The channels have to be added to WebEPG manually at present. The channel details are only imported automatically into WebEPG Config if you are using the TV Engine built into MediaPortal. Make sure when you add a channel that the name is [B]exactly[/B] the same as it is set up in TVE3 or else the EPG will not be associated with the channel. Then you can pick the grabber details for that channel. Some countries may have more than one grabber that will get the details for the channel so you may have to experiment to find the best one. If you take a backup of the 3 files in the WebEPG folder (WebEPG.bak, WebEPG.xml & WebEPG.xml.bak, you probably only need one of these files as 2 look like backups but I save all 3 to be safe) you will not have to go through the manual process again if anything deletes your MediaPortal installation or you want to do a completely clean install. Mew [/QUOTE]

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