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If you use ARGUS TV Recorder, you can select the channels you would want to grab in ARGUS TV Recorder Console.If you suffer from bad signal, grabbing the DVB-EPG parallel to recording puts quite a load to your machine - which could even lead to bad recordingsĭVB-EPG must be activated in your recorder.DVB-EPG uses your tuners and while doing so, you can't use the tuners for recording - depending a bit on the recorder machine you're using.Especially some "low-budget" stations don't provide DVB-EPG at all - or only a very general one You can only get, what the station is willing to send.not all entries include season/episode informations. It usually provides less information, e.g.DVB-EPG usually has a higher up-to-dateness than the XMLTV information.Some important information about DVB-EPG: You can see feedback of this process in the log screen of the ARGUS TV Scheduler Console:ĭVB-EPG is EPG information that is streamed with the TV signal itself. Mostly people schedule a job that will launch a batch file to start fetching the XMLTV file and dropping it at the proper location for import into ARGUS TV.ĪRGUS TV will automatically import the data into its database. You can use the guide grabber of your choice, and drop the guide XML file in the ProgramData\ARGUS TV\XMLTV. So for example, in MediaPortal TV Server's case these are its scanned channels which contain tuning information for the cards they are scanned on and mapped to. This is basically a channel known by the recorder/tuner. If you use MediaPortal TV Server, we need to bring on board a third kind of channel: the tuning channel. If you use ARGUS TV Recorder, you will have to link your channels to services that are found on your digital cards. A guide channel, that is not attached to a TV channel, can't be recorded nor played. And since a guide channel on its own is not so useful it will also auto-create a default TV channel for each guide channel it creates (using the same name as the guide channel). If you import an XMLTV file ARGUS TV will check all channels in the file and auto-create guide channels if needed. So in ARGUS TV, both "één" and "één HD" as TV channels and both are associated with the single guide channel "één". In Belgium we have a channel called "één" and they have an HD version of the exact same programming called "één HD". This means it's quite possible to have two channels linked to the same guide data.

The guide channel binds the guide data to the TV channel so to speak.

If a Guide channels name is exactly the same as the TV channel, the guide will be automatically mapped during first import.Ī TV channel is often, even usually, linked to a guide channel.

TV channels are “real” channels, attached to services, the ones you and I work with, possibly see in the guide, and schedule recordings on.

Guide channels are low-level channels that contain guide data, they're auto-added if a XMLTV file is imported and ARGUS TV finds new channels in it when an exact corresponding TV channel doesn't exist.

In ARGUS TV there are two kind of channels, guide channels and TV channels: Some important information about "channels":

Mediaportal tv guide update#

ARGUS TV will detect when this changes and update its guide data You generate or obtain an XMLTV format xml file and provide this by yourself, chosing your preferred source.ARGUS TV Recorder can extract the data for you from the TV stream - the so-called DVB-EPG.You have a few options to get guide data into ARGUS TV Please refer also to our Wiki-Article EPG Grabbers For a quick start, consider using DVB-EPG initially, which is natively supported by ARGUS TV.After first installation of ARGUS TV, you won't have an EPG nor a pre-installed way to grab XMLTV files from guide providers - this has to be done.ARGUS TV does not activate one of the below options just by itself and thus.ARGUS TV can’t schedule recordings if it is not in the possession of up-to-date TV guide data.