John Lockwood

Hmm. Thanks always good to learn new things. I believe there have been times when Freeview has used Huffman on some SD channels, possibly ones sharing the same multiplex as HD channels. A different approach that would work then would be to grab all EPG data - which I presume you already do, filter only for Huffman encoded records - whatever channels that might relate to and then import those to WMC. I am presuming from what you say that you currently grab all EPG data and filter for records for the...

Yeah, I found that one as well. It is a single Tuner although it should be possible to use two of them. They did use to make a twin tuner model but that is discontinued. I will bear it in mind. My ideal solution would be a network tuner.

I currently use a SiliconDust HDHomeRun DVB-T2 tuner and this works great with both EPG Collector and WMC. I would however like to also add a DVB-S2 satellite tuner. What makes this more complex is that the system I am using does not have any PCI slots and I am also still running as mentioned Windows Media Centre. SiliconDust did a few years ago suggest they were going to launch a DVB-S2 tuner but never did. (As an aside they also promised to add DVB subtitle support to their own software and also...

I currently use a SiliconDust HDHomeRun DVB-T2 tuner and this works great with both EPG Collector and WMC. I would however like to also add a DVB-S2 satellite tuner. What makes this more complex is that the system I am using does not have any PCI slots and I am also still running as mentioned Windows Media Centre. SiliconDust did a few years ago suggest they were going to launch a DVB-S2 tuner but never did. (As an aside they also promised to add DVB subtitle support to their own software and also...

I am currently using EPG Collector with WMC and it is working very well. (Thanks once more for this tool.) If anything it is far more reliable than the Microsoft EPG was - even before they started having deliberate outages as part of the process of weaning people of their product. I used to have a lot more corruptions of the channel/guide data when I was using the Microsoft source and this required periodically doing a full reset. Anyway, moving on to my request. I use a SiliconDust HDHomeRun DVB-T2...

Whilst making WMC reveal the correct data I paid a bit more attention and noticed something. I don't know if it will help you shed any more light but here it it. As mentioned the EPG Collector data is usually present as shown by the fact that for the affected channels merely selecting "Show no listings for this channel" actually does restore the EPG Collector data. I noticed that when the channel has a problem and I edit its listing setting it initially shows that is using the listing for "Quest...

In Windows Media Centre as previously mentioned the problem channels if I edit their 'listings' option will often let me cause the EPG Collector data to reappear by choosing Show no listings. I can also see that for the problem channels no option to use inband source is available because I have deliberately disabled inband for these and some other channels. I can see this option on channels I have not done this for. This confirms to me that inband guide has been disabled on these channels. I use...

As requested here is the log. The channels currently exhibiting this problem if I remember them all correctly are as follows. 55 - 5Star +1 64 - FreeSports 69 - CBS Justice +1 83 - NOW 80s 89 - Together +1 93 - PBS America +1 96 - Forces TV 114 - QuestHD