Similar is the case with Media Portal and both these are free apps. If not epgstream, we anyway have the wonderful mc2xml to get our XMLTV files (India is one of the countries that MS has EPG for).Īnyway, coming back to my point, once I have my local copy of XMLTV file in PVRs like GBPVR all that I have to do is to point the location of the XMLTV file and the program guide is fully loaded into the application. It is one of the slickest interface I have come across in the PVR domain. To top it of, epgstream has some excellent video tutorials on youtube (search for epgstream on youtube). Next, if required, it can also create a proxy guide service for Vista Media Center which replaces the native Guide service of VMC and reads the local XMLTV file and loads into VMC Guide. You give it a source to download your XMLTV from. (We are in the testing phase of getting XMLTV format files through .)Į is a beautiful example of how xmltv download and import into PVRs should be.
Here in India, I have managed to get the only EPG provider (who provides to most of the Satellite TV providers) to part with their data in XMLTV format for free. Oops! Sorry! I think I did not elaborate my point clearly. That's why some of the grabbers continue to get broken because the companies that own that info want to charge for it and don't want to give it away for free. I would venture to guess is that it is a legal question about gaining access to TV guide info thru xmltv.
As can be witnessed by their various International user forums. As it stands now their customer base is not limmited to North America. If it is too difficult then someone needs to build a better plugin. They have provided the path to get the info in there.
SageTV provides a connection to the tv tv services Guide Data also. Stephane has built one and from the posts in that thread it looks like it works very well. But it is up to the plugin builders to get it in and get it in easily. Is it any wonder why Sage doesn't want to support XMLTV by building it in? They have provided a way of getting the info in from any xmltv source. Here is a test report from the latest grabbers that work with XMLTV.
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