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<blockquote data-quote="KevinM" data-source="post: 168513" data-attributes="member: 50013">A bit more info.In the UK, behaviour of DVB-T and DVB-S cards is completely different:-The DVB-T cards (well my Pinnacle ones anyway), pull in a full 7 day EPG from a single channel. The whole process takes just under 14 minutes but grabs all data for 75 DVB-T channels. This is obviously the reason why people have recommended increasing the EPG timeout above the default 10 minutes for UK users.Freeview Satellite channels typically only pull in about 4-17 channels per transponder and take about 1-3 minutes for each one. On my setup I have over 30 transponders in use. Unfortunately, Sky only broadcast the 'Now &amp; Next' EPG on freeview satellite. This means that I can only just grab all the available EPG data in an hour and short programmes can result in gaps in the EPG.Also, on my system, the DVB-S EPG grab for Film4+1 stalls so I have to disable that one otherwise the whole thing falls down.It would appear that it is therefore beneficial to grab any satellite&nbsp; EPG data I can from the web and only enable DVB-S EPG grabbing for satellite channels that don't have a working web grabber.A big improvement that could be made to MP would be to add a separate option for each card for the DVB EPG data for all channels on a transponder to be updated whenever switching to a channel on a new transponder.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KevinM, post: 168513, member: 50013"] A bit more info. In the UK, behaviour of DVB-T and DVB-S cards is completely different:- The DVB-T cards (well my Pinnacle ones anyway), pull in a full 7 day EPG from a single channel. The whole process takes just under 14 minutes but grabs all data for 75 DVB-T channels. This is obviously the reason why people have recommended increasing the EPG timeout above the default 10 minutes for UK users. Freeview Satellite channels typically only pull in about 4-17 channels per transponder and take about 1-3 minutes for each one. On my setup I have over 30 transponders in use. Unfortunately, Sky only broadcast the 'Now & Next' EPG on freeview satellite. This means that I can only just grab all the available EPG data in an hour and short programmes can result in gaps in the EPG. Also, on my system, the DVB-S EPG grab for Film4+1 stalls so I have to disable that one otherwise the whole thing falls down. It would appear that it is therefore beneficial to grab any satellite EPG data I can from the web and only enable DVB-S EPG grabbing for satellite channels that don't have a working web grabber. A big improvement that could be made to MP would be to add a separate option for each card for the DVB EPG data for all channels on a transponder to be updated whenever switching to a channel on a new transponder. [/QUOTE]

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