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SETTING UP MY EPG or DVBEPG

I personally like: DVBEPG myself, but alot of others like MYEPG . This is actually pretty simple to do.

1. Get the EPG (electronic programming guide) that you want to use.
2. Extract the DVBEPG or MYEPG .zip file to: C:/ProgramFiles/MyTheatre/Plugins. I would use one or the other and not both at the same time.

* With DVBEPG, you will have more files that extract to the Plugin Folder. MYEPG only has 1 .dll and a readme.
1. Put the .dll's that extacted from DVBEPG into the MT root or into the system 32 folder. You may want to check first to see if you already have them there before doing that.
2. Go into the Plugins folder that extracted and Cut & Paste them into the MT Plugin Folder. You can now delete the Plugin folder inside of the MT Plugin Folder.
* Fire up MT and use the shortcut key to start up your EPG program. Read the readmes included with each package to set-it up properly and to know what your shortcut key is. In DVBEPG it's ctrl-alt-G and in MYEPG it's the G key.
* To get your remote to pull up the third party EPG Plugin, please refer up to the Remote Section of this to do so.

In order for the guide to update you need to be on a EPG channel. You can go to lyngsat.com to look for the EPG channels if they ever change.

* Sat 119-TP19 - Channels 176, 199, 200, 202, 303, 320, 820, 821, 955, 977, 978, 979. I find that 303 works the best for me.
* Sat 110-TP21 - Channels 119, 163, 195, 309, 321, 329, 330
* Sat 110-TP29 - Channels 100, 503, 506, 510, 516, 521, 523 - *EEPG
* Sat 121-TP21 - Channels 733, 734, 737, 738, 761, 766
* Sat 61.5-TP29 - Channels 578, 579, 607, 609, 615, 620, 645

Here is more info taken from another post:
MyEPG Frequently Asked Questions


Problem:MyEPG Freezes on Doing List Queries, and MyEPG.LOG file reveals the following error: "OpenDatabaseConnections Exception message: Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done."
Solution:In a number of cases, users have been using Windows
Compatibility Mode on either the MTStart.EXE or the
MyTheatre.EXE files. To access compatibility options,
right click on an exe file in Windows Explorer and go
to Properties. Turning off compatibility options
resolves this issue.

Q: Why can't I see any EPG information in MyEPG?

1. Is your Windows System date and time set correctly?
2. Open up MTs built-in EPG browser. Does it display any more info than MyEPG?

A:

* If not, then MT is not downloading EPG info. Check EPG tab in "General Settings" and turn on internal parser, etc... Then tune to appropriate channel to receive EPG info data and wait.
* If so, go into MyEPG settings and turn Off "Display 2 hrs of data only". If this was not checked, you likely have some issue with the way MyEPG is set up. Maybe you have two MyEPG DLLs in your plugins folder. It always seems to be a configuration issue. I have never received a real bug report on this.

Q: Why do I get blank channel lines in MyEPG?
A: When selected, this description appears: "EPG data was found for this channel but the channel does not exist."

* Even after re-scanning transponders the channel is not found. This is because the provider is distributing EPG
data for channels that are not available from this
source. It is just the way they like to do things.

** Note that this only applies for EPG based filters such as Genre or Fav Shows. On the other hand, Fav Chan or Provider filters would not have this issue because their
channel list is derived from the Channel database.

You can prevent this superfluous data from displaying by configuring MyTheatre to only download EPG data for
favorites. See General Settings -> EPG. Yes, this means
that you must put your desired channels in a channel
favorite list.

Q: How to get MyEPG to open with out MT's EPG?
A:

1. General Settings>Presets tab
2. Choose MyEPG from the first drop down menu.
3. General Settings>Shortcuts>(under live mode section)
4. Remove settings for Show EPG Windows and OSD EPG.
5. Go to section just above and click on Favorite Plugin #1
and enter your twinhan epg button.
6. Bring up MyEPG, go to options and change remote settings if necessary.

Q: Is there away to get the EPG to show the order by channel # and not the SID for my locals in the 8000's?
A:

* Set channels up in favorites
* Open myEPG Options and go to Display tab
* Uncheck "Use SID as Channel Number" if checked
* Go to Filter tab
* Set Default Filter to "FavChans" & Default Filter Sub Selection 1 to "ALL FAVORITES"

Q: My time is off after daylight saving time, what can I do to fix it?
A: You have to open your windows clock and click the time zone tab and UNCHECK Automatically adjust daylight savings time. It's a bug in the software that they are aware of but seem to not be too worried about it.

If you are getting high CPU usage while using DVBEPG & MT, here are some things that I do.

I prefer [thread=30238]DVBEPG[/list], but I was having problems with high CPU usage. I have done the following to help that out and this is now working AWESOME! Please note I have updated this to show the NEW DVBEPG and many problems were fixed and this may not be necessary to do.

Here are a few things which I did that has this FAST EPG working GREAT!

1. Open up MT and right click the video area. Go to Settings>General Setting. Click the EPG Tab.
1. Uncheck Everything, you don't need any of it.
2. Only have Internal Manger & Compact on Exit Selected.
3. Restart MT.
2. When MT starts again, open up the EPG, either via remote or the shortcut key Ctrl>Alt>G and open up the settings.
1. Under EPG Grid, Uncheck 24 hour (not necessary).
2. Under Channels, Select Show Known Channels Only.
3. Under Internal Parser.
1. Check EIT Parser Active.
2. Pid to Parse = 0x0012 for 2 day guide or 0x0300 for 9 day guide.
3. No Check by DVDCore internal Parser Active.
3. Now Press ok and go to the correct EPG channel for your selection. I use 303 for 2 day and 100 for 9 day.
4. Once the guide has updated for the time frame you selected, open up DVBEPG and go to settings.
* Go back to the Internal Parser Tab and uncheck whatever Pid to Parse you used and select ok.
* Go to Shortcuts Tab and set the remote up to browse through the EPG menu.
* You can also customize the look and feel of DVDEPG at this time if you so desire.
* Once you are done, close out DVBEPG

* You can now open up Task Manager and see that you should Not have a high CPU usage.
* Your guide will not update until you open up settings again in DVBEPG and Select the Pid to Parse Again. You will need to do this everytime you start MT because DVBEPG does NOT save the guide list.


This should take care of any high CPU usage you were experiencing before. The EPG updates fast so this should not be a issue if you don't keep MT up 24/7. If you use a 7 day guide, doing this every 4-7 days should not be a factor either. If you prefer another EPG, that is fine, but I will say that none compare to the speed, look, and functions this one has. I would like to see it be able to do Favorites like MYEPG, but since you can fly through the guide, this is not really a issue for me. Please, if you have anything to add, let me know.

* I guess I should mention that after I extracted the .zip to the Plugins Folder in MT, I deleted all the skins except for the Default one. I did not feel the need to have all that stuff in there and I like the color of the default one. You can look through them ahead of time if you prefer another color or just use em all.
* Prior to using all those .dll's, I did a search in my PC to see which were already in my System 32 Folder. In my case, I only needed to add the CGI one to the System 32 folder and then I deleted the rest. I could not be any happier.
* If the newest beta does not work for you, then try the release prior to it......1025. That did work real good for me too, I just figured newer is better and if there were any bugs, I could send that info to Momotte without being told to use the newer version.