One of the big problems of a general EPG grabbing application, like XMLTV, in MediaPortal is that channel names don't match the names used in MediaPortal, causing the TV guide data not to be imported properly.

There are several other programs that do what WebEPG does, but not as easily and not as well integrated with MediaPortal. Let me know what you think.WebEPG is a Electronic Program Guide grabbing application. You'll also be able to do a new channel search (f.e when the provider adds new channels) and reuse all the mappings that are currently available.ĭon't know if the above makes any sense, especially if there's a better way of doing this already. That mapping file will then be used for each new xmltv import. The options will be presented according to the closest matching name, if there are any. It'll give you an option to change the mappings that were automatically created in case the names aren't matching. If the answer is yes on the first question, no on the other, i might actually try and write a xmltv2 plugin that'll create a xml mapping file using the display-name in the tvguide.xml file that'll map the id to the channelid, f.e '' -> 2:TV 1000 and so forth (I'll keep the name from the channel search in the xml file also, for potential future use ). Swedish channels in this case, i'm using tv_grab_se_swedb. If it is, is there another plugin for xmltv that does this a better way ? Which means that the channels will have to be renamed to match the xmltv (tvguide.xml) name exactly before importing.

If there's no such channel available, it'll create a new channel with no information about the channel, dvb-s in this case.Īll those channels will of course be unusable.

The programs for Eurosport () is then mapped to the existing channel with the name 'Eurosport'. If i'm not mistaken, the way that the plugin works is that it takes maps the channels using their display-names. I'm having some problems with the xmltv plugin.

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