XMLTV Generator For US That Doesn't Use Schedule Direct

[mvallevand]

One thing I'd look for in a North American EPG is a good unique ID that you find from SD and mc2xml Scrappers and OTA EPG data likely won't provide this.

Martin

[Zeb]

I think there was an upgrade for Vista (TV Pack or something like that?)

Yes, but TV Pack 2008 was only released via OEM, and most OEMs didn't bother because Windows 7 was already on the horizon. As a Vista Home Premium user, I was blissfully unaware of TV Pack until my cable provider went all-digital in late 2012, when Vista Media Center's lack of QAM support became a major issue for me. True, TV Pack can be downloaded, but not from Microsoft (although Microsoft does have a 5-year-old update for it). TV Pack requires a clean install of Vista SP1, whereas I had a not-so-clean install of SP2 by the time I needed it. It cannot be uninstalled and does not include H.264 support. All things considered, I decided to install NextPVR instead! Meanwhile, my virtually useless VMC is still dutifully downloading EPG data several times a day, so I can't really feel guilty about using mc2xml to download the same data once a day. If Vista SP2 had upgraded VMC to the equivalent of W7MC, I doubt that I would be using NextPVR or mc2xml (#!@& Microsoft!). I could use VMC for ATSC, but can only get 4 channels in "Hicksville."

@Haselsmasher: You will need a batch file as discussed in the Wiki, but you should omit the quotation marks from the third line.

[Edit] A year and a half later, I actually installed TV Pack 2008 on a fully-updated Vista SP2 installation. Apparently it does not require a clean install of Vista and SP1 as reported.