Hi Paul, You may want to look at http://www.home.zonnet.nl/erik_nospam.arendse/ - he has a brief discussion on this issue. Also, I would say that I find it easier to xlmtv grab to a file and use mythfilldatabase --file ... to load. But I'm still at the early stages of getting this working :( No working video yet but a fully loaded EPG :) Cheers, Colm