[mythtv-users] MS media center
Nick Morrott
knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 18:33:00 UTC 2010
On 27 February 2010 12:52, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> It may also be possible to import EIT data via XMLTV (tv_grab_dvb)
>> into Media Center (convoluted, and getting very off-topic) in those
>> territories that do have over-the-air listings data, but no service
>> available from Microsoft.
>>
>
> EIT data is (with W7) natively supported by WMC. They do a lot of things
> wrong, but a few things they just get "right."
>
> You simply click the "WMC" icon, tell it you're in DVB territory, the
> channel scan works (nice!), BOOM you're in.
>
> I will NEVER cross borders and run WMC as my system (mythtv or die!) but W7
> really leapfrogged for people in DVB countries. No mucking around with
> broken channel scanners, importing channel.conf or scan.conf, no setting a
> starting freq based on some text file you dig up.... it all really just
> works, including over the air EPG.
Thanks for this updated information.
Cheers,
Nick
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