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THANK YOU Gary

Last post by adam1991 « Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:36 pm
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by testmonkey » Thu Jan 02, 2020 11:38 am
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Let us ALL say THANKS to Gary the developer of EPG123 with a monetary donation to the cause.
For his relentless pursuit of perfection.
For his unrelenting dedication to supporting the project and especially the time he spends on the tech support lately to get EVERYONE up and running.
During a...

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Donated! I'm using Plex and not WMC, but the epg123 tool allowed me to get accurate EPG data for the live TV. The default Plex data was quite inaccurate. I was able to update the Plex EPG in one simple step and didn't lose any functionality. Love this tool!

Are you using Schedules Direct data?...
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Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:36 pm
Bravo EPG123

Last post by garyan2 « Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:31 am
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by dxcc2009 » Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:00 pm

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a week ago my plans were to use Linux Mint with ME TV for live TV when WMC was gone.
Then I found out about EPG123. I was going to wait till Jan. 20 2020 when I thought WMC EPG would end.
Then I noticed WMC wasn't updating my EPG past 1/1/2020, so I decided to try to make the switch.
I did it...

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I believe FrankAZ is talking about the configuration GUI where I don't have the ability to do a multi-select. It would take some work to get the code right since each channel that changed state would trigger a change for all channels with that station in all lineups. I may look into it, but I...

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EPG123 Bug Reports

Last post by The Mac « Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:36 pm
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by HTBruceM » Thu Mar 03, 2016 8:05 pm
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New thread to report defects in existing functionality, crashes, etc.

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yup, looks like it never actually updated.

The homescreen icon never turned red, just the systray icon.

i will post in the other thread.
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Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:36 pm
v1.4.0 Release

Last post by stuartm « Thu Oct 08, 2020 8:42 pm
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by garyan2 » Fri Sep 25, 2020 10:50 pm
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Just released a new version. The big news on this one is that the installer/uninstaller and executable files are now signed so should lessen the trouble with UAC, SmartScreen, and AV/Firewall software. I encourage everyone to update to this version in order to increase my reputation score for that...

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I get the same thing although I can select keep from the download menu for the file at the bottom of chrome and it goes ahead and downloads it anyway.
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Thu Oct 08, 2020 8:42 pm
Introducing EPG123

Last post by garyan2 « Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:53 pm
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by garyan2 » Sun Feb 14, 2016 3:43 am
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So I, like everyone else here, have been very disappointed with Microsoft's decision to move to Rovi for their guide data. Even 7 months after the transition I am not impressed with Rovi's performance ... in fact it scares me to death. I started researching alternatives and found quite a few. Some...

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Hi,

My guide has not updated for the last two nights now. The problem seems to be due to missing channels in the data coming from Schedules Direct. Last night, the mxf imported, but the file is 72 hours old. So I'm not sure what that means.

I sent the trace log to you via email.

Thanks,
Jerry...
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Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:53 pm
1.5.0 - Verifying MXF...

Last post by Space « Sat Oct 31, 2020 12:06 am
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by Sancho » Mon Oct 26, 2020 3:12 pm
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Just installed the latest (1.5.0.0) on three PCs, but one has been doing Verifying MXF Load... for an hour and a half, and counting. The other two finished the MXF Import process in normal time. On one PC it took 44 seconds from entering the Verify Load step to the end of the import (and end of the...

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After having no issues for the past few days, today's run failed (last log entry):
Entering VerifyLoad()
I'm guessing that there were a large number of fixes that needed to be done and it took too long, so the process was killed. I will run it again later to see if it is able to continue where it...
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Sat Oct 31, 2020 12:06 am
EPG123 Guide update failed

Last post by WilsonFC « Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:49 pm
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by Rickt1962 » Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:23 pm
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Took the plunge. Installing EPG123 was easy but it fails on updating the guide :(

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Success after a few false starts.
From WMC I ran TV setup.
Got an error Download failure
The new TV setup data could not be downloaded.
Exiting data will be used ...

Everything seemed to proceed normally from that point.

EPG123 Client had data on both panels but no Guide. wWhen I attempted to...
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Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:49 pm
1.5.0 No Systray Icon?

Last post by garyan2 « Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:08 pm
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by kkingsto » Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:05 pm

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Just noticed when I upgraded to 1.5.0, the System Tray Icon disappeared. Am I missing something here? Do I need to reboot?

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No, it should be there. When upgrading it will kill the tray that is currently running and start a new one once the file is replaced. If it is not there, you can just double-click the file c:\program files (x86)\epg123\epgTray.exe. I've found myself accidently clicking the Exit option on the tray,...

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Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:08 pm
Changing schedule direct account in EPG123

Last post by geo100 « Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:32 pm
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by geo100 » Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:43 pm

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Hello, I succeeded using epg123 after 10 days experimenting with trial accounts of schedule direct.
Question:
- what is the easiest way to change from the trial account to an now existing 1-year accout?

regards Geerd

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Hello Gary,

everything now okay: after deleting account information in epg123.cfg I could use the new longterm account.

thank you very much for your fast help

regards Geerd

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Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:32 pm
Sky Arts on Freeview

Last post by johnmmason « Mon Oct 26, 2020 10:19 pm
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by johnmmason » Sun Oct 25, 2020 12:38 pm

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There is a new channel on Freeview called Sky Arts.
It appears in my guide but has no listings but the program displays fine.
Is there anything I should be doing.
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OK thanks that was the answer. Hadn't had to do that before

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Last post by johnmmason
Mon Oct 26, 2020 10:19 pm
Epg123 guide update

Last post by garyan2 « Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:27 pm
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by phillyb » Wed Oct 07, 2020 9:43 am

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Hi everyone

New to this forum hoping someone might be able to help.

I've installed a new tv tuner card into a new computer.

Media center so i needed to run the live TV setup again.

So i did the following:
Backup up Epg123
Ran the client setup
Restored the backup

See below picture:...

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Yes. Please send the trace.log file to support@garyan2.net.

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Last post by garyan2
Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:27 pm
Using two instance of epg123

Last post by adam1991 « Mon Oct 26, 2020 2:23 am
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by warham28 » Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:46 am

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Hello,

it's possible to use two instance of epg123 ?

i have 2 account at SD and i already use 4 lineup at the first one...

thanks!

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that Jurassic Park quote comes to mind here....

Now I'm curious. Can someone describe the use case here? I suspect the 4 lineups is the key.

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Last post by adam1991
Mon Oct 26, 2020 2:23 am
Scheduled tasks always fail

Last post by Gripweed « Sat Oct 24, 2020 12:56 am
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by delphimon » Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:54 pm

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OK, I've tried my best to figure this one out on my own, but I'm stumped. After a long time of working perfectly, for the past N months my scheduled tasks no longer complete successfully. If I manually launch and run EPG123 and hit the Save & Execute button, the update task works just fine, and my...

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When I was having trouble with the mcupdate task previously I changed my user/group to Administrators and that fixed it. Gary said that I shouldn't have to do that and that System was the correct entry but Administrators was the only thing that worked for me. I also made sure that the highest...

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Sat Oct 24, 2020 12:56 am
First failed import of MXF file

Last post by garyan2 « Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:56 pm
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by Space » Mon Oct 05, 2020 11:26 pm
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So, tonight there were a few last minute changes to the schedule so I did a manual update with EPG123 to see if they were reflected in the data from Schedules Direct...

I manually ran the update at around 6:30 PM ET and it created the MXF file but then failed to import......

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Here is a run at 0714Z that still had discontinuities for TENISHD/TENNIS which is expected since first program downloaded starts at 1000Z. I've just added code to proceed with verification even if there are no schedule entries covering the current time... only start with the first schedule entry...
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Last post by garyan2
Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:56 pm
Add a Logo Image to Channel

Last post by NOYB « Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:31 pm
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by NOYB » Thu Oct 22, 2020 11:44 pm

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There are a few channels that Schedules Direct does not provide a channel logo for. In some cases the channel does not have a logo. In some cases I suspect perhaps due to copyright/trademark. Is there a way to add my own images to these channels? Tried putting an image in the logos folder...

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That radio lettering is a little too small on a 40 inch screen at 12 feet. On a 15 inch laptop it's good. But that's equivalent to about 72 inch screen at 12 feet.

Doubled the radio lettering size and also used the base image from OPB Plus so they have same size and alignment in the guide....

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Last post by NOYB
Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:31 pm
Trying to create a custom lineup

Last post by NOYB « Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:38 pm
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by NOYB » Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:09 pm

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Not Implemented (dialog box)
This feature is not yet implemented. You can manually edit the custom lineup file C:\ProgramData|GaRyan\epg123\customLineup.xml .
I've done that and can see the custom lineup in EPG123 Configuration v1.4.10.
But the channels are not selectable. I presume that also needs...

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The custom lineup doesn't fit what I was going for.
I was going for a couple channels that Schedule Direct does not have. Yes I notified them a month ago. Pinged them and they don't seem to be able to find the necessary info about the channels. Nevertheless they are active broadcasts.

I could...

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Last post by NOYB
Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:38 pm
Garbage Collection

Last post by dopdahl « Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:12 pm
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by alhaunts » Sun Sep 13, 2020 11:55 am

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Got an old install of WMC on Windows 7 that's been working fine for years. Noticed after updating EPG123 to newest version that MCUpdate runs twice every 5 days (on different days). Once triggered by EPG123 and then a couple of days later from WMC itself. Is this expected behavior? I guess there's...

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Well, this is interesting. I, too, have Optimization enabled. Not only that, it's set for the exact same time at 2:00 AM as my EPG123 task. Hmmm.

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:12 pm
EPG123 client won't start

Last post by snotty « Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:52 pm
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by snotty » Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:30 pm

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I installed EPG123 client and server on an old Win7 machine a year ago and had few issues. Great program! That computer is now showing its age and so I want to change to a new Win10 Pro mini computer. I do a full install of EPG123 1.4.10.10 and it seems to install correctly, but the EPG123 Client...

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Success! Thank you very much.

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Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:52 pm
v1.3.9.0 -> v1.3.9.10 Release

Last post by garyan2 « Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:03 pm
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by garyan2 » Mon Jul 13, 2020 3:43 pm
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For those 30 folks that downloaded v1.3.9.0 already, I found an error in the configuration GUI that would ask the user if they wanted to save changes even if they were not successfully logged in to Schedules Direct. Since this could wipeout any custom station download selections, I removed v1.3.9.0...

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That's the thing. mcupdate did not run at that time, the epg123client intercepted the call and prevented it from executing. IT Troll has had some bad luck concerning the garbage cleanup as well and it looks like yours is similar/same.

So the progression, I think, is this...
1. Garbage cleanup...
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Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:03 pm
v1.4.x.x Bug

Last post by garyan2 « Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:52 am
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by garyan2 » Fri Oct 16, 2020 1:18 am

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With the help of WMCLives, I found a bug in the v1.4 release that would fail at stage 1 of an update due to a new station being added to a lineup. I would push out an update quickly on something like this, but I am in the middle of some large code additions. If you find something similar to the...

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A user helped me find another bug. If version 1.4.x.x was the very first version of epg123 you installed, you will not be able to save changes to your configuration file if you are not running with elevated privileges. If you need to make changes to your configuration file, run the configuration...

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Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:52 am
Red X

Last post by garyan2 « Mon Oct 19, 2020 1:07 am
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by jpendergraph » Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:06 pm

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Hi,
Recently I noticed that when I open WMC that the EPG123 icon in the lower right has a red x and the EPG icon in the system tray is red and says that there was an error during the last update. I have attached my log file below, I appreciate any help I can get in figuring out the problem....

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You can get rid of 1 of those cable lineups. Everything in the standard cable is repeated in the digital cable as far as I can tell, so whichever one matches your provider/subscription is the one you want to keep. In the configuration GUI, you can EXCLUDE the lineup from download or click the...

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Last post by garyan2
Mon Oct 19, 2020 1:07 am
thetvdb queries

Last post by Space « Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:55 am
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by Space » Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:37 am

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NOTE: You can ignore this post unless you are bored, I figured out what the issue is.

I was just looking in my EPG123 log and noticed a few movies that were being looked up (I believe in thetvdb.com).

I see this:

TMDb catalog search for My Husband's Secret Twin from 2019 found 0 results....

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You are too fast, I had already edited my post. Yeah, I figured all that out. Thanks.

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Last post by Space
Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:55 am
Few days ago EPG stopped updating?

Last post by garyan2 « Sat Oct 17, 2020 4:55 pm
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by testmonkey » Fri Oct 16, 2020 5:17 pm

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A few days ago (10-8) I noticed the red X appearing on WMC with EPG123
Checked in the log files and found :

Beginning epg123 update execution. version 1.4.10.10
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Beginning EPG123 update execution. 2020-10-16...

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On next release, I've added quite a few catches for any problems with the cache that will hopefully mitigate this. I suspect some of this is coming from problems compressing the file which introduces errors. Without an example, I can't know for sure if I capture all of them.

Sorry, going to have...

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Last post by garyan2
Sat Oct 17, 2020 4:55 pm
Duplicate Channels

Last post by IT Troll « Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:23 pm
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by IT Troll » Thu Oct 18, 2018 6:13 pm
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I think this may have been discussed previously with regards to US cable channels, but I am seeing something similar with UK DVB-T (Freeview).

I've had to do a few rescans recently following channel frequency changes. For some reason certain channels now have duplicates. The name and channel...

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In my experience, if Media Center is already open, it will continue to work perfectly fine until you close and re-open. There must be something which it only checks on launch. Perhaps a checksum in the database which is not being updated correctly. It pops up instantly and so it does not appear to...
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Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:23 pm
My Guide Stopped Updating

Last post by Scallica « Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:03 am
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by hoonk » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:03 am

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I have had EPG123 running in 2 houses for almost a year. Have been getting the epg icon and updates to the guide on both systems. 1 is spectrum, the other is comcast. Recently, The comcast system will not update the guide listings - Here's a log file - any suggestions? Thanks

Status request...

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Please use code tags when posting a log file a mile long.

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Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:03 am
How does WMC work when Comcast adds new channels

Last post by Space « Sun Oct 11, 2020 2:42 am
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by benhase » Sat Oct 10, 2020 9:38 pm

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Gary,
I am trying to understand how WMC works when Comcast adds new channels.
My configuration is WMC on Windows 8.1 with HDHRprime and Comcast.

I run the HDHRprime Detect Channels (via which shows 325 channels.
I remove the duplicates (channels over 1000) and the non-HD channels leaving 91...

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As far as I know, with a tuning adapter, it is the same (at least as far as WMC is concerned).

I don't know the details, but at a high level...

The CableCard Device periodically downloads a channel map from the service provider. This channel map is a listing of channel numbers and what frequency...

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Last post by Space
Sun Oct 11, 2020 2:42 am
Importing MXF file fails. MWC crashes after that.

Last post by garyan2 « Sat Oct 10, 2020 5:40 pm
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by Windom » Sat Oct 10, 2020 4:47 am

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Hi,

Just starting having this issue a couple of days ago. It seems that my MXF file is failing to import properly. After that, if I try to to use WMC, it crashes if I try to go to recordings or the guide and shows don't record. If I reboot the PC, WMC works fine until the next scheduled MXF...

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Awesome. I wasn't sure if the recording requests would be successful since I don't know exactly what happens when the database crashes like this. I may be just as relieved as you are on this one.

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Sat Oct 10, 2020 5:40 pm

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