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<blockquote data-quote="winterescape" data-source="post: 408748" data-attributes="member: 90370">Adding some detail:This link has a detailed setup for this option:<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/webepg-136/tvgids-nl-sbs6-nl-grabber-problems-46684/index4.html#post318204" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/webepg-136/tvgids-nl-sbs6-nl-grabber-problems-46684/index4.html#post318204</a>For OTA US ATSC listings do this:1) Select Microsoft legacy2) Do not select OTA select &quot;digital cable&quot; on first run of mc2xml3) go to your local cable provider web site and find out what channel #'s your local ATSC OTA are rebroadcast onlike this for Time warner <a href="http://www.timewarnercable.com/CustomerService/TvListings/TvListings.ashx" target="_blank">| Time Warner Cable | Corporate</a>4) make a mc2xml.chl file with those channels in it, for example:110
524
433
1011
your tvguide.xml will now only contain content for these 4 channels
5)at the xml plugin map your OTA ATSC digital channels to the correct digital cable channel6) you should end up with a epg folder on your HTPC with the following content:mc2xml.bat&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (command line is:&nbsp; &nbsp; mc2xml -o tvguide.xml)
xml.dtd&nbsp; &nbsp; (downloaded from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39046" target="_blank">SourceForge.net: XMLTV: Files</a>&nbsp; , extract the package and get this one file)
mc2xml.chl&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; (with content example shown above, just a list of channel #'s)
mc2xml.dat&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (file created on first run of mc2xml to store zip and config data)
mc2xml.exe&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (downloaded from <a href="http://mc2xml.110mb.com/" target="_blank">mc2xml</a>)
tvguide.xml&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; (file generated by mc2xml with your tv listing data
7) schedule a windows task to run every night and execute the mc2xml.bat fileThat is it!&nbsp;&nbsp; oh yeah, then donate some $$ to the guy who wrote mc2xml to keep him happy and thank him for his hard work&nbsp; (link on the download page)...BTW,&nbsp; the reasons why&nbsp; I specify the above:1) I could find no other way to get OTA ATSC program guide for US besides MC2XML2) The titan TV option in MC2XML stopped working for me on 4/13/093) The OTA option from Microsoft will not contain all the sub channel listings (YMMV)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="winterescape, post: 408748, member: 90370"] Adding some detail: This link has a detailed setup for this option: [url]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/webepg-136/tvgids-nl-sbs6-nl-grabber-problems-46684/index4.html#post318204[/url] For OTA US ATSC listings do this: 1) Select Microsoft legacy 2) [B]Do not select OTA [/B]select "digital cable" on first run of mc2xml 3) go to your local cable provider web site and find out what channel #'s your local ATSC OTA are rebroadcast on [INDENT]like this for Time warner [url=http://www.timewarnercable.com/CustomerService/TvListings/TvListings.ashx]| Time Warner Cable | Corporate[/url][/INDENT] 4) make a mc2xml.chl file with those channels in it, for example: [INDENT]110 524 433 1011 your tvguide.xml will now only contain content for these 4 channels [/INDENT] 5)at the xml plugin map your OTA ATSC digital channels to the correct digital cable channel 6) you should end up with a epg folder on your HTPC with the following content: [INDENT]mc2xml.bat (command line is: mc2xml -o tvguide.xml) xml.dtd (downloaded from [url=http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39046]SourceForge.net: XMLTV: Files[/url] , extract the package and get this one file) mc2xml.chl (with content example shown above, just a list of channel #'s) mc2xml.dat (file created on first run of mc2xml to store zip and config data) mc2xml.exe (downloaded from [url=http://mc2xml.110mb.com/]mc2xml[/url]) tvguide.xml (file generated by mc2xml with your tv listing data [/INDENT] 7) schedule a windows task to run every night and execute the mc2xml.bat file That is it! oh yeah, then donate some $$ to the guy who wrote mc2xml to keep him happy and thank him for his hard work (link on the download page)... BTW, the reasons why I specify the above: 1) I could find no other way to get OTA ATSC program guide for US besides MC2XML 2) The titan TV option in MC2XML stopped working for me on 4/13/09 3) The OTA option from Microsoft will not contain all the sub channel listings (YMMV) [/QUOTE]

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