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Welcome to the new TGB.tv Server

Last post by IT Troll « Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:03 pm
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by holidayboy » Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:50 am » in News and Announcements

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Hi everybody.

If you're reading this post then you have arrived on our new server.

You should be able to post etc as usual - please contact me if you have any difficulties at holidayboy thegreenbutton.tv

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Much more betterer. Thanks. :thumbup:

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Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:03 pm
Server and forum upgrades - July 2020

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by holidayboy » Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:36 am » in News and Announcements

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Hi all,

After talking to our current hosts, a few upgrades are required in order to (hopefully) keep the site working well. :|

We're running on a server OS that is nearing end of support and there is also a newer version of phpbb that we'd benefit from as well.

It means that I'll have to take a...

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I thought the only things holiday boy's did were to take holiday's

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Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:10 pm
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

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EPG123 Bug Reports

Last post by garyan2 « Wed Jul 08, 2020 2:52 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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What postal code do you search? I'll verify that is how the data is provided by Schedules Direct. EPG123 will make all channel numbers of certain lineups to be -1 intentionally, but I don't think that is happening in this case.
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Wed Jul 08, 2020 2:52 pm
v1.3.7 Release

Last post by garyan2 « Thu May 21, 2020 2:43 pm
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by garyan2 » Mon May 11, 2020 3:31 pm
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It's been a while since I released something that adds new features, but I'm pretty excited about this one. The biggest add to this release is the ability to select what style of station logos you want. The options are white , gray , logos for dark backgrounds , and logos for light backgrounds ....

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Yah, now that my memory is fully restored on this matter, this occurs when there is no short description in the data. When scrolling through the guide data, in the absence of a short description, WMC will show the long description which includes the appended season and episode text. In doing so, it...
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Thu May 21, 2020 2:43 pm
Introducing EPG123

Last post by garyan2 « Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:00 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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Not quite as much, but I did see a difference. For an update run that was typically around 22s, I am now around 16s with the .20 version. This is on a circa '16 Mushkin SSD.
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Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:00 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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Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:31 am
EPG123 says there's a recording in progress

Last post by technodevotee « Fri Aug 14, 2020 7:41 am
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by technodevotee » Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:04 am

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EPG123 says there's a recording in progress but there isn't, there was what seemed to be a hung instance of ehrec.exe however.

Beginning epg123 client execution. version 1.3.9.30
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Beginning epg123 client execution....

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It worked fine this morning.

I'm going to have a think about the other matter we discussed.

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Fri Aug 14, 2020 7:41 am
1.3.10.0 Release

Last post by garyan2 « Wed Aug 12, 2020 8:00 pm
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by StinkyImp » Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:37 pm

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Hi Gary!

Thank you for your recent release and all your hard work and dedication! It truly is appreciated!

I noticed a new file epgTray.exe is included and relates to your release note:

added a tray notification program to relay status of updates and ability to access EPG123 programs.

I...

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Next release.
trayupdate.PNG

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Wed Aug 12, 2020 8:00 pm
Failed to import MXF file

Last post by garyan2 « Wed Aug 12, 2020 2:49 pm
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by dmagerl » Mon Aug 10, 2020 7:21 pm

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EPG123 has been work great for months. All of a sudden I ran out of listings. Running the EPG123 program and save and execute creates the mxf file, but the epg123 client, when doing a manual import, aborts.

I tried attaching the trace.log file but i cant get the forum software to accept the file....

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The first rebuild should have taken care of it unless it failed to delete the current database. Was there anything in the trace.log file to indicate problems doing the rebuild?

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Last post by garyan2
Wed Aug 12, 2020 2:49 pm
v1.3.9.0 -> v1.3.9.10 Release

Last post by dopdahl « Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:40 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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Ok, moved things to run at 2 am... I'll keep an eye on it.
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Last post by dopdahl
Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:40 pm
No Updates to Guide - Failed to create MXF file

Last post by StinkyImp « Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:51 pm
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by mawse1 » Tue Jun 30, 2020 7:26 am

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Hi there

Im running version 1.1.17 and have been for a couple of years with no problems.
Nothing has changed, it just keeps on working as it should (big thumbs up Gary), but I noticed yesterday only had guide listings until friday - so had a quick look in the log file and found this..........

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UPDATE:

I know the client execution time includes other processes but it looks like my average time for PerformGarbageCleanup will be around 10 minutes (give or take) and everything is running as smooth as silk. That's awesome!

Thanks Gary! :clap:

EPG123 Log Parser (and Report Generator) - v...

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Last post by StinkyImp
Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:51 pm
Unhandled exception

Last post by garyan2 « Fri Aug 07, 2020 3:01 am
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by Space » Sat Jul 25, 2020 12:03 am

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Any idea as to what caused this error?

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Exiting buildAllGenericSeriesInfoDescriptions(). SUCCESS.
Entering getAllMoviePosters() for 4262 movies.
Unhandled exception caught from epg123.exe. message: The given key was not present in the dictionary....

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I believe so, yes. Older versions would have kicked out and failed, but I added the trap here for missing md5 program hash. It would have probably worked on next update once SD got synchronized.

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Last post by garyan2
Fri Aug 07, 2020 3:01 am
Task Scheduler

Last post by garyan2 « Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:45 am
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by John UTAZ » Thu Jul 30, 2020 6:51 pm

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This is likely not a very common problem. We were gone for over a month and shortly after leaving, we had a short power outage that caused the WMC PC to reboot. When we got back, it appears that the guide downloaded just before the power outage eventually ran out... then no new recordings after...

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No, that one is still a mystery. Running the task in Win7 as NETWORK SERVICE would still run. It would just fail to access the registry keys I take a look at on each update to ensure the guide is active in WMC and to check what your status logo options were set to.

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Last post by garyan2
Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:45 am
Guide update has stopped working

Last post by jasmithvr6 « Mon Aug 03, 2020 5:01 pm
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by johnmmason » Sat Jul 25, 2020 1:22 pm

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My guide has not been updated for a few days now, I've updated to the latest version 1.3.9.30, and after the scheduled task has run the status icon remains red with the correct date showing.
I have attached my latest trace.log if you could help me please.
Regards
John

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Thanks Gary. The GUI must have been running in the background. I reinstalled 1.3.9.30 and the program guide is downloading successfully again.

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Last post by jasmithvr6
Mon Aug 03, 2020 5:01 pm
Cannot get the guide

Last post by mhagar « Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:55 pm
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by mhagar » Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:32 pm

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I have tried everything more than once, not real savvy on this program but have been using it for some time until it will not transfer over to WMC. sending log for examination at the time i think things went wrong.

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Sometimes it's just the simplest thing....it was the PGTS....thanks Gary, you da bomb

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Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:55 pm
EPG123 Perform Garbage Cleanup

Last post by StinkyImp « Wed Jul 22, 2020 2:51 pm
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by Bewick Place » Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:11 pm

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Hi,

I'm a long standing user of Windows Media Center and am grateful to EPG123 filling the gap that Microsoft left behind and continuing to keep WMC alive. I've been using the app for well over 18 months.

My setup is on Windows 10.
I've just upgraded from v1.3.6.? to v1.3.9.10.

I have a...

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I am now writing in a universal time format rather than using whatever the systems culture may be for a guaranteed correct parsing of the registry key.

A few years ago when I was trying to figure out how to parse the trace.log dates for ALL Windows users (no matter how they were formatted) I...

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Last post by StinkyImp
Wed Jul 22, 2020 2:51 pm
Support for EPG123 while TGB site down for updates

Last post by garyan2 « Tue Jul 21, 2020 9:03 pm

by garyan2 » Tue Jul 21, 2020 9:03 pm

All,

For any needed support while TGB site is down for maintenance or any other reason, feel free to contact me via email at support@garyan2.net and I will respond as quickly as I can.

Thank you,

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Tue Jul 21, 2020 9:03 pm
.Net unhandled exception

Last post by garyan2 « Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:56 pm
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by StinkyImp » Sat Jul 11, 2020 3:18 pm

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This is an FYI.

My gut feeling is this is a one-off.

I haven't seen this unhandled exception previously... The given key was not present in the dictionary.

Pertinent versions:
10/5/2019 epg123 version 1.2.7.0
10/6/2019 epg123 version 1.2.18.0
10/7/2019 epg123 version 1.2.7.0
10/8/2019 epg123...

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Yah, it looks like when SD was having problems on 7/11 it caused some issues with the EPG123 cache. Clearing the cache and rebuilding was all that was needed.

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Last post by garyan2
Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:56 pm
No Service after rapack-rescan and several clean starts

Last post by howiez69 « Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:06 am
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by howiez69 » Mon Jul 06, 2020 4:03 pm

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I'm at a loss and could use a kickstart of ideas.

A little background:
I'm in the Green Bay, Wisconsin area. We had a local channel move towers and it turned my WMC world upside down. So the channel in question is WLUK Fox 11 (RF channel 12). They are the only VHF channel in my area to the best of...

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Well, I dunno what I did, but it works today. After all my remove/readd and change tuners picked by WMC, nothing worked.

I checked it again just now and it's working, all three 11.1 11.2 and 11.3 all come in loud and clear, all guide data is there.

I'll just call it the ID10T factor and I pushed...

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Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:06 am
EPG123 Failed to import .mxf file

Last post by garyan2 « Sat Jul 11, 2020 6:45 pm
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by Curly73 » Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:24 pm

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After working flawlessly for about four months, I suddenly have empty guide data. Upon checking trace.log I find errors started around June 25th. It appears that EPG123 is updating properly but the client is unable to import the .mxf file into WMC. Here's the latest from trace.log:

Completed...

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I'm seeing a message that the imported MXF file is 25.73 hours old.

Also error message Unhandled exception caught from epg123.exe. message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Please follow this thread ( for updates on this.

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Sat Jul 11, 2020 6:45 pm
Why is WMC "green button" icon now appearing in system tray??

Last post by garyan2 « Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:03 pm
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by DSperber » Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:30 am

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Just started happening yesterday. Maybe it's purely a coincidence, but just two days ago I installed EPG123 1.3.8.20. Before that I'd been at 1.3.7.30 for quite a while, and the WMC green button icon never appeared in the system tray.

The green button icon used to appear nightly, when WMC started...

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No harm in ending ehtray.exe. It is shown due to an event, probably mcupdate related, and is probably waiting for another event to occur to close it. It doesn't actually control anything, it can just initiate some processes and will wait for it to signal it is complete or provide more information....

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Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:03 pm
Error when running PerformGarbageCleanup during recording?

Last post by RyC « Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:30 pm
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by RyC » Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:52 am

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Hello,

My EPG123 scheduled task is set to run at 9am, and usually nothing is recording at that time but when something is, EPG123 has previously worked fine waiting until all recordings are finished to do the import. I recently updated to 1.3.8.20, and I've been following the thread on how this...

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Thanks Gary and IT Troll,

My garbage cleanups (even when WMC runs them on its own) have taken around 15-20 minutes for several years now. I do have almost 9000 recordings so that definitely could be part of it. I've been running 1.3.8.20 since July 4th, so just under a week, and I think this was...

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Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:30 pm
Channels not updated after repack

Last post by Markinsac « Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:57 am
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by Markinsac » Wed Jul 01, 2020 2:59 am

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Most of the channels that changed updated in EPG123. Two channels, which I don't use for recording often, did not.

One moved RF from 40 to 22, the other from 46 to 23. EPG123 still shows the old RF frequencies. My HDHomeRun will allow me to see the channels using its own viewing app.

Does this...

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The old frequencies are no longer active. They all did a clean switch at the end of April.

I ended up using the split option. I can see the channel live when selecting. Have not tried recording a show yet on that channel, but will try soon.

Thanks for the help.

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Last post by Markinsac
Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:57 am
What programs(s) need to stay open?

Last post by lightvox « Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:14 am
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by lightvox » Sun Jul 05, 2020 10:49 pm

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Hi. First, thanks Gary for creating this option/solution to allow us to still use WMC. Everything seems to be working well, and the listings are updated on a schedule.

I just have a quick question. What program or programs do I need to leave open for everything to work? Both the config tool and...

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Thanks!

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Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:14 am
Accidentally messed up all my guide data in EPG123 Client - anyway to revert?

Last post by camelopardis « Wed Jul 08, 2020 1:42 am
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by camelopardis » Wed Jul 08, 2020 12:46 am

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Totally my own fault but I was trying to add listings to a new channel in the EPG Client Guide Tool and I stupidly clicked MATCH BY NUMBER on the left side. This has now destroyed by carefully compiled custom listings with custom numbering. The media center guide is now just showing completely...

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Gary - Thank you SO much for your amazingly quick reply! Option 3 worked perfectly and I didnt even need to use safe mode. This has saved me hours ... I've topped up your beer fund ;)

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Wed Jul 08, 2020 1:42 am
Getting error "failed to import .mxf file"

Last post by proboscis « Tue Jul 07, 2020 9:39 pm
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by proboscis » Sun Jul 05, 2020 11:30 pm

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This may be similar to the other thread “failed to create .mxf file” but I’m getting “failed to import .mxf file”. I noticed the EPG123 icon was red a few days ago and just updated to the latest one, still happening. The entry in the event viewer is:

“Beginning ep123 client execution”
Error using...

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That did it! Thanks very much Gary!

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Tue Jul 07, 2020 9:39 pm
Channels came back?

Last post by StinkyImp « Sat Jul 04, 2020 4:45 pm
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by StinkyImp » Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:31 pm

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I had to do a rescan the other day and decided I'd get rid of all the unwanted channels that were filling my guide.

I opened the EPG123 Client and then opened WMC - Settings - TV - Guide - Edit Channels.

I placed them side-by-side and then unchecked and unsubscribed the channel in EPG123 and...

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I think your confusion here is...

Once again, YOU NAILED IT!

I have to say... this made me chuckle at myself!

Thanks Gary! Have a great weekend!

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