Steve Bickell

Looks OK when I run that file. Here's an entry from the output xml <programme start="20240923115605 +1200" stop="20240923122506 +1200" channel="10 Adelaide"> <title>The Drew Barrymore Show</title> <desc>Host Drew Barrymore brings her infectious brand of humour and positivity to daytime with guest 50 Cent.</desc> <category>Special Interest</category> <rating> <value>PG</value> </rating> <episode-num system="SxxExx">S05E12</episode-num> <episode-num system="original-air-date">2024-09-22</episode-num>...

That's odd, it looks OK when I run it. Is your import file small enough to attach to a post.

There are a couple of options. EPG Centre has a 'Clear programme guide' option under Run - WMC Maintenance. Try this first. Otherwise you can delete the WMC database and its backup. I don't have WMC installed on any machines now so I'm not sure where the files are. I seem to remember that they used to be in c:\programdata\microsoft\ehome.

Try the attached version. Don't set 'Create Plex compatible tags.

As the software you are using (EPGC and WMC) haven't changed it must be something to do with the data. Have you tried recreating the WMC database? This is the quickest and easiest thing to do first.

I know its been a while but hopefully you are monitoring this thread. The xmltv_ns tag is lost because EPGC is only passing thru 1 episode-num tag it doesn't use, the last one it comes across. I can fix that. A couple of questions. Does it matter if the original-air-date tag has the time as well as the date and does it matter about the empty previouisly-shown tag? That was a request from another Plex user a long time ago.

EPG Collector uses the utility LoadMXF.exe, which is part of WMC, to load the MXF file into the WMC database. It doesn't do it itself. And the disable in-band setting isn't relevant to the process. I would imagine EPG123 does the same thing and uses LoadMXF. There is no way to stop EPG Collector running LoadMXF but there is no reason you can't run EPG123 afterwards as well.

It looks like the only field that could cause it is a blank program title. I've put in a check avoid the error.