TV guide becomes corrupt over time

[teookie]

Anyone else having bogus channels popping up in the lineup? Every few months I have to go into config and uncheck boxes for bogus channels that popped up out of nowhere.

What I think is happening is MC2XML occasionally downloads a incorrectly formatted or otherwise flawed .xml file containing bogus channels. GBPVR then dutifully assigns the channels to a tuner - even though the channel does not exist.

Does this sound like a plausible explanation? Anyone else experiencing something similar? Is there a more stable tv guide fetcher I could be using?

[dennit]

Anyone else having bogus channels popping up in the lineup? Every few months I have to go into config and uncheck boxes for bogus channels that popped up out of nowhere.

What I think is happening is MC2XML occasionally downloads a incorrectly formatted or otherwise flawed .xml file containing bogus channels. GBPVR then dutifully assigns the channels to a tuner - even though the channel does not exist.

Does this sound like a plausible explanation? Anyone else experiencing something similar? Is there a more stable tv guide fetcher I could be using?

I've been using MC2XML for about a year now and have never seen bogus channels, but I do see new channels that come and go. Your local broadcaster/cable company reports channel changes, which then show up in the EPG file that MC2XML retrieves. GBPVR immediately adds those channels. If you don't want that behaviour, then just use the -c (channel) option in MC2XML and tell it exactly what channels you want it to get. Any "new" channels that MC2XML sees will not be added to the XML. Only channels explicitly listed in the -c channel file will be added, the others will be ignored. That's how I do it.

You will then be responsible for figuring out when your local broadcaster/cableco has added new channels that you might be interested in.
(BTW, I've noticed that MC2XML seems to ignore the first line of the -c channel file, so I put something bogus there, then start the list of the channels I want to pick up on the second line.)

[imagn]

(BTW, I've noticed that MC2XML seems to ignore the first line of the -c channel file, so I put something bogus there, then start the list of the channels I want to pick up on the second line.)

I have been using MC2XML as well for about a year and also have the channel fine, i have not experience any problems with MC2XML ignoring the first line of the file

[dennit]

I have been using MC2XML as well for about a year and also have the channel fine, i have not experience any problems with MC2XML ignoring the first line of the file

That's interesting. Which of these formats do you use to identify channels?

5
9-15
17-21.2
HBO
BBC2 London
I20.515292.microsoft.com
I51.5.34392.tmsdatadirect.com
I54.3.3945.titantv.com

Perhaps I've got an older version with this bug.