EPG issues with SBS Australia (perhaps relevant in other locations)

[ggeers]

Hi,
this is my first post. I'll start by saying I love NextPVR: great piece of software guys!

Now to the issue in the subject line  

SBS TV in Australia (at least in Sydney) shows (no lisitings) for all EPG entries on its multiplex (including radio).
The SBS entries on the 'Channels' page are blank.

I found the following on the SBS web site:

SBS EPG Enhancements

In order to add Consumer advice to all SBS channels and Country of Origin for SBS World  Movies
in the Electronic Program Guide (EPG), on 2nd December 2019 SBS has made the following
changes for Free-To-Air (FTA) Terrestrial and VAST satellite platforms (NOT for FOXTEL or FETCH TV):

TThe program synopsis has been moved from ‘Short Event Descriptor’ to ‘Extended Event Descriptor’
 in the Event information Table (EIT) that’s used by the Digital TVs and receivers to display the EPG.

The ‘Short Event Descriptor’ now contains Consumer Advice and Country of Origin information for relevant programs.

Some old TV sets may not be compatible and therefore, won’t able to display the program synopsis which is now 
under ‘Extended Event Descriptor’.

This incompatibility can only be addressed by the manufacturer. SBS recommends viewers with affected receivers 
to contact the manufacturer, report the issue and ask if a firmware update will be available to fix it.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this change may be the reason for the EPG not updating in NextPVR.

Anyway, just letting the NextPVR team know (if the they don't already) and hopefully they can look at adding a fix further down the development schedule 

I also note that I am running version 6.1.4.230625 under Windows 10.

Thanks in advance and keep up the great work!

Cheers,
Glenn

[sub]

It should already handle the Extended Event Descriptor, since this is used in several European countries.

You may need to use the eval version of TSCapture (from https://tscapture.com) to capture a one minute full transport stream from an SBS channel, and put the file somewhere like onedrive / googledrive, and let me know the download link. I'll try it here with my signal generator.

[sub]

Actually try this updated dll

https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid585454

[Battleaxe]

Same problem ( on the other side of the country in Perth) with SBS listings but the above fix worked great. Fantastic software.
Thanks
Russ

[sub]

Great.

[ggeers]

Actually try this updated dll

https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid585454

Worked fine thanks.

In lieu of rebooting, I replaced the file then restarted the NextPVR service. 

Cheers,
Glenn

[dawsonjw]

Actually try this updated dll

https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid585454

Thanks Sub.  Fixed my problem too

cheers

John

[Ericktreetops]

Hi , I did receive a reply from SBS about EPG changes.
They sent a diagram saying that they had not changed anything recently.
Which is strange my EPG for SBS stopped working end of September beginning October of 2023
Adding the DLL fixed my issue., 
Here is what SBS sent me to say they hadn't changed anything https://1drv.ms/i/s!ApXAQQ5XQRNG20jCLydN...f?e=qgu3tH