Manual TV Guide?

[jrothlis]

Hi Sub,

I am writing this because over the past few months my frustration with the whole PVR concept has been growing, for one very simple reason: in NZ there are *no* reliable XML TV Programme sources. I don't know how many times I have had to find a new source, only to see it dry up, either ocasionally, or at the worst possible time (i.e. the programmes I want recorded are missed out). Programme naming is not consistent, so if the guide changes the spelling or something, then the programme doesn't get recorded... In short, for a PVR to work correctly, there *has* to be a 100% reliable source for the XML feed, otherwise forget it!

So for all of us unlucky sods that don't live in the US (lucky in many other respects though)... What I would like to suggest/request is the following: for you to modify the manual recording section to make it a lot more user friendly. Namely:

Programme Name (for ease of reference within the list of recordings, and for the mpg filenames)
When (e.g. every friday from 9:00 to 9:30 pm -- of course the standard pre and post padding applies)

Basically to do away completely with the XML guide side of things, and to have only manual recording capability.

I have had very limited success with the current manual recordings, mainly they don't repeat like I ask them to.

Thanks for any help Sub. And thanks for a great product that unfortunately suffers from an infrastructure limitation.


--John

[sub]

I'll look at reoccuring manual recordings again for the next release to see if I can find any problems, but are you aware you can already name your recording? Just enter the name in the "name prefix" field. It'll use whatever you type in and append the date/time.

[jrothlis]

Yes, but the name only applies to the file, not to how it appears in the interface. And none of the recurring ones I setup ever worked more than the first time. They then just disappeared from the list, as if they had been one-offs.

I guess what I am after is a very simple system of reliably recording the same programmes, week after week.

[sub]

Quote[/b] ]I guess what I am after is a very simple system of reliably recording the same programmes, week after week.

Yes, well that is the intention. It was doing this last time I had a good look at this, but admittedly that was a few releases ago and I could easily have broken something in that time, so I'll take another good look at it for the next release.

[reven]

jrothlis have you tried my C# tv grabber, you can get it here most channels have multiple sources, tv3 has 5 sources, tv1,2 have 3 sources, prime has 4 i think. ive been using it and its been extremely reliable (kinda new thou, about a month old). gets more channels than any other one ive seen, triangle tv, channel 9 for dunedin. if you find a bug tell me and ill fix it, its under constant improvement. works great with gbpvr.