TV 3 on MS Media Center EPG

stanstaple

Is it possible to add the TV 3 schedule to media center. I've just bought a new digital tuner & the schedule works fine for digital RTE 1, 2 & News. TV 3 is listed, but there is no program info. Thanks

pa990

tv3 not being broadcast on digital at the moment.

blueser

Anybody got any idea when TV3 will start broadcasting on DTT? I'm getting p*****d off looking at that RTENL testcard whenever I try the channel.
:mad:

watty

No.
Probably TV3 hasn't decided.
It's unlikely before full Launch in Q2 2011 or later.

They will join before 2013

Sam Russell

watty wrote: »

They will join before 2013

Perhaps .. but then again, who knows?

stanstaple

I should have been clearer. My tuner is dual analogue/digital and I receive and can watch TV 3. Media center recognises the channel as TV3 but doesn't give any schedule details.

Gerry Wicklow

Media centre detects the station name from teletext on analogue. You can't get an EPG from analogue.

stanstaple

Is that new? A few years ago (5?) I used media center to watch NTL cable (analogue, I assume) on my da's PC. The listings were all available- downloaded from the net I think. I'm picking up the signal over an aerial from three rock now.

Gerry Wicklow

Media center downloads an extended 14 day EPG based on the country setting. I use a welsh post code to fool it for FreeView. Without the correct post code it only uses the broadcast EPG.
If I understand correctly the OP is trying to show an EPG for an analogue signal. I don't know if a downloadable version of TV3's EPG is available. Media center (like many TVs) will show a station Ident based on the analogue teletext signal.

stanstaple

Interesting. I am the op btw. Would it be naive to assume that making available a downloadable version of TV 3's EPG would be fairly simple & cheap? Surely watching tv on a computer isn't so niche that they wouldn't accommodate it? Even if TV 3 couldn't be arsed, surely someone else would (What's on TV now?). Are you picking up UK DTT in Wicklow, and if so, could I- in Kilmainham?

Gerry Wicklow

I don't know where windoze gets its EPG. Any online schedule services I have come across are all subscription based. AFAIK stations supply the broadcaster ($ky or FreeView or whoever) with an XML file listing proposed schedule. Whether TV3 would be bothered to post that online is doubtful. There are better qualified members here to correct me on this.
I get FreeView from Preseli in south Wales. From my knowledge of the city it would be very unlikely for you to get Wales or NI without a massive aerial on the roof in your area. FreeSat would give you all the main channels for free if you are allowed erect a dish.

stanstaple

Thanks for the info Gerry. I still feel there's some obvious solution to my problem that i just can't grasp. I used to be able to get listings for analogue cable...

mossym

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

I don't know where windoze gets its EPG. Any online schedule services I have come across are all subscription based. .

xmltv will allow you pull an epg from the uk radiotimes webpage for free, or at least it used to. i haven't used it in a while as i grab my epg from the DVB sources, so it may have changed.it could also integrate parsers which could strip the epg from a standard webpage, like the tv3 page. thye were a bit of work to sort out, but once done, you had a standard xml epg file

Bob_Harris

If you use guidetool you should be able to "subscribe" to the TV3 epg and then associate that with the analogue channel.

If that doesn't work, you might be able to inject xmltv data into the Media Center 7 epg.

Use xmltv gui or similar to grab EPG data from your preferred source (radio times seems to be down lately) then use something like this to import the data into Media Center.