Which EPG guide for Belgium - Dutch? (4 Viewers)

[patbis]

Yep tried it on 2 computers. I now tested it on an old laptop and there it works.

Thanks for the tip. I still need to find out why it's not working on the other 2 but I have .

 

[Peter2]

You could report this to the maker of mc2xml and ask him what the requirements/prerequisites are for the program.
Apparently, something about your configuration is nok, that is missing, misconfigured, ....

 

[Berns]

I've been using tvxb since the startup of my project, in combination with the server xmltv plugin.
I'm currently combining multiple sources into one tvguide.xml file for 70 channels (Flemish, Englisch, Walloon, French, German, Italian, Spanish channels and more)
For Belgian channels (and some others) I'm using input from humo. Some channels span over 2 pages. It took me a bit of time to figure out how to deal with this.

Success code for tvxb.ini for VT4:

[VT4.nl]
service=VT4
url=http://www.humo.be/tws/tv-gids/epg_zender.html?pagina=[set=1,2]&channel=VT4&dag=[day=mm/dd/yyyy]&channelPrev=VT4&dagPrev=[day=mm/dd/yyyy]
start=2
title=4
description=4(1)

The trick is in the [set=1,2] approach. For some reason, humo repeats the channel and the day at the end of the URL

 

[JochenAndries]

Lost in space :-(

Hey guys,

I'm totally lost in space

Situation :
Very nice, well equiped machine (specs doesn't matter)
Win7
for the moment : MP and TVserver 1.0.2
1 Hauppauge PVR PCI (double tuner)

Very soon :
Extra DVB-S tuners for TV-Vlaanderen (with HD)

Problem :
EPG (what else ?)
In Dutch : Ik kan het bos niet meer zien door de bomen (In English : I'm f*cked up )

I just want EPG, I tried several programs, but nothing works, well, It seems I'm missing some steps.
I just uninstalled everything MP, SQL,... related to be able to start a fresh install when I find a good manual to let EPG work with my config.

Pokerface : I'm a MCSE, MCSA and CCNA (and more), but cann't get EPG to work...

Please help, I'm beggin'

BTW :

Jochen

 

[maybeme]

mc2xml still works. Try it. If you can't figure out how to get it working, please post the steps you've done, and what fails to work.

 

[JochenAndries]

Fot mc2xml, you need to have xmltv working, I suppose.
The only thing I can download is jxmltv, but it's unlicented.

Where to start with xmltv ?

 

[maybeme]

You don't need xmltv, you just have to enable the xmltv plugin in MediaPortal, so MediaPortal can read the xml files mc2xml creates.

 

[JochenAndries]

OK,

xmltv-plugin enabled... (slapped my twice because it wasn't)

:-(
mc2xml.exe is not a valid win32 application

The DOSprompt didn't work :
C:\Program Files\Team Mediaportal\Mediaportal\xmltv (I made the dir myself)
mc2xml -c be -g 8670 -o tvguide.xml

=> ...is geen geldige Win32-toepassing.

EDIT : redownload, NOW OK !! (the program works, no EPG yet, still busy)

13h45 : in TV-server : Enabled xmltv
13h55 : downloaded mc2xml, placed it in the xmltv-folder
13h59 : DOSprompt : mc2xml -c be -g 8670 -o tvguide.xml
showed a dialogscreen with country-code (be) and postalcode (8670) etc.
14h03 : job done, no EPG yet, search goes on... (mapping of channels perhaps,...)

Update 14h38 : IT WORKS !!!

There's a lot of info here, but difficult to define the steps.
Solution : on the mc2xml-website : follow the howto for MediaPortal !!

BTW / THX Maybeme

 

[Berns]

Jochen, Maybeme,

How is the quality on the information for VT4 and Ketnet/Canvas?
Is the schedule covering the full set of programs?

Instead of using humo.be I'm currently trying to capture information from tv.be (TV.be - VT4 - Alle programma's op VT4 - online TV-gids) to have more program information.
Little or no succes. Help is welcome.

Would it be worth switching from TVXB to mc2xml. Would I still be able to capture EGP data for all those countries, in one single run, into one tvguide.xml file?

 

[maybeme]

VT4 info is OK with mc2xml