SplaTT's Blog: Working EPG for Windows Media Center in Australia

April 8, 2005

Working EPG for Windows Media Center in Australia

Yeehaa....a huge thank you to Mark Baartse for pointing me in the direction of this forum posting and the associated site. When i combined the info on those pages with some of the fine points from this forum thread which focussed on the Sydney setings...i now have a fully working EPG on my Windows Media Center Edition PC.

The EPG functionality rocks...this is the "killer" component that the Media Center is lacking in Australia, and with the help of the above mentioned threads from the Australian XP Media Center Community website, its now a reality in my lounge room.

A huge thanks to Mark for pointing it out, to Ben Pettit for putting together the "oh so simple instructions", to specks90 (who ever you are) for providing the changes required for the Sydney setup and the people over at The Green Button and the Australian XP Media Center Community for finding ways around the bizarre reasoning that stopped the EPG being available in the first place.

I have said it before...and i will say it again...the Windows XP Media Center is an amazing tool that has changed how i live in my loungeroom, and whoever is stopping the "real/official" EPG from being released by Microsoft needs to be dragged aside and {insert favoured form of punishment here}.

Posted by Mick (SplaTT) Stanic at April 8, 2005 8:24 PM | TrackBack

Comments

Yay! Glad it worked! You are my EPG guinea pig :)

I WAS going to set it up this week, my TV tuner card finally arrived, but they sent me an NTSC one - argh! Fortunately, Hauppage are being pretty co-operative so far about doing the swap - fingers crossed.

Posted by: Mark at April 9, 2005 9:40 PM

Welcome to the EPG club :)

Ian

Posted by: Ian at April 10, 2005 2:53 AM

G'day Mick,

I was out and about checking my external links in Google and found this post.

I have to agree that the EPG is THE killer component of MCE and I'm so glad that we were able to help out.

Please drop by anytime time and say HI! - we'd love to chat.

Kind regards,
Mike - Administrator
Australian XP Media Center Community
http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au

Posted by: Mike at April 15, 2005 7:22 AM

I am looking for an application that can run on the windows media pc and be able to sync to an external epg xml file.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Posted by: Margaret Kho at January 18, 2006 10:58 PM

Hi I to need assistance on seting up an epg for media centre in Melbourne Australia i dont have any software dont know what is best and works well as in ice or epgrunner.

Please help me

Thank you

Posted by: John at August 8, 2006 7:56 PM

Hi John,

I have heard some really good things about EPGStream - http://www.epgstream.net - but i haven't had a chance to try them out yet...my Media Centre is currently sitting in storage until aI find a new house :(

SplaTT

Posted by: Mick (SplaTT) Stanic at August 9, 2006 7:09 PM