EPG: Gift to the HTPC Community

[skoka123]

Here’s my gift to the HTPC community of India: electronic program guide.

After eight months of persuasion with the electronic program guide provider I have managed to get the Electronic Program Guide for 300+ Indian Channels. The electronic program guide will be provided in XMLTV format and the medium of distribution is through epgstrem dot net’s XMLTV Guide Pack (epgStream.net Support Forum &bull; View topic - DOWNLOAD >> XMLTV: Guide Pack <<).

For those of you who are wondering what this is about, think of it as Tata Sky+ on PC without being tied to Tata Sky.

Currently the guide pack provides only one line up that includes almost all the major channels’ electronic program guide. In due course the line up will have multiple options to choose from, one for each service provider (Big TV, Dish Tv, Tata Sky etc).

The XMLTV guide pack does two things.

1)Download XMLTV electronic program guide
2)Work as a proxy Windows Media Center guide provider (instead of going to MSN India for downloading the electronic program guide)

The XMLTV electronic program guide is not limited to WMC/VMC. It can be used with any PVR application that uses XMLTV format for electronic program guide (example: GBPVR).

There are some very good videos on Youtube for setting up WMC/VMC and epgstream ( source ) Search for epgstream user on Youtube for more videos.

Note: epgstream keeps reminding you to donate. If you feel like it, even a $1 donation is enough to get rid of that nag or if you can live with it, just ignore the nag screen.

I request you all to complete this poll.


Thanks,
Srikanth

[raddy]

Hi Srikanth

Although i wasn't able to see the electronic program guide you have created yet, But your work is commendable.

But i wonder how much HTPC population is there in India,

If you also provide the electronic program guide in RSS format even non HTPC community will be greatly benefited as they don't need to always sit in front of their TV to track their favorite programs.

[skoka123]

For you, I would say the most wonderful resource at this time is ZipAZap Indian TV Guide, Indian TV Listings, TV Schedules, TV Timings. They have electronic program guide for almost all the channels. They even give you free SMS reminders and email alerts etc. It is the absolute best in India at this moment IMO.

[gsmsikar]

For you, I would say the most wonderful resource at this time is ZipAZap Indian TV Guide, Indian TV Listings, TV Schedules, TV Timings. They have electronic program guide for almost all the channels. They even give you free SMS reminders and email alerts etc. It is the absolute best in India at this moment IMO.

thanks very much for this link ...