sub Wrote:If you wanted to stick with XP and Schedules Direct, you'd probably need to switch to an XMLTV EPG source.
Okay, I had a couple hours to kill, so I fiddled with XMLTV. I've never looked at it before, never had to. (Well, I've looked at the format before, because I had to make a fake XML EPG file for a fake channel I made up, but that's a different story.)
The wiki just kind of points to it, and getting it is easy, but there were no real "How To Do It" tutorials that I could find. But on the SD site, the fabulous rkulagow has a wonderful writeup.
http://forums.schedulesdirect.org/viewto...?t=295&f=6
It might be a little over the head of the casual user, but I'm an old engineer so I had no problem. I now have SD EPG on an XP machine through XML.
The cool thing is that once you give it a clue, NPVR just goes and finds what it needs.
I still can't wrap my head around why NPVR can't get the data using an XP machine when XMLTV can. From what I read, XMLTV is using the JSON source. What am I missing?
It takes about ten seconds per channel to change from SD to XMLTV, so I just deleted all my channels and imported them anew from XMLTV. Of course, that's the full lineup when I really only get a subset of them (DTA vs. DVR). Now I have to go delete all all the erroneous channels again, but that's quite a bit faster than changing 157 channels one at a time.
Oh, and of course <DONATE>.
WinXP SP3 A8V-X Athlon 64 FX-60 2.60GHz 2GB
NextPVR 3.4.8
NextPVR 3.4.8