EPG Collector No to Part Collection 20 July 2025

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MWA

14 posts

Geek

#3397892 29-Jul-2025 00:45

Hi David

I haved tried again on my Windows 7 Media Centre machine using EPG Collector EIT to Windows Media Centre, still no TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2 and TVNZ 3. I have also now installed MediaPortal on the very same Windows 7 machine and can confirm that EPG Collector EIT to XMLTV file imported via the MediaPortal XMLTV Plug In is working for the full 7 days on TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2 and TVNZ 3.

Cheers

Mark

Wrangler

3 posts

Wannabe Geek

#3398097 29-Jul-2025 18:38

Hi Mark,

I haven't used MediaPortal at all - just Windows Media Centre (right back to Windows XP and analogue transmission). I'm now using a Hauppauge WinTV-quadHD tuner on Windows 7 with an XBox extender and have been using EPG Collector since at least 2010. It has been very reliable till now, so seems odd that the MHEG5 has stopped. I might try and contact Kordia or FreeView to see if anything changed.

Anyway, I'm not familiar with the MediaPortal plugin - does it just import the XMLTV output file that EPG Collector can optionally produce? If so, I have inspected that file and for me it is only gives now & next for TV1 & TV2.

Just to clarify some of your earlier comments - are you talking about DVB rather than satellite broadcast?

You mentioned there are five multiplexes used - is that per frequency. Sugarloaf broadcasts on 562, 578 and 594 MHz and EPG Centre's "Find EPG Data..." scan shows seven or eight PID's for each frequency. If you were talking about DVB then I'm unclear how to select a specific multiplexor and stream in EPG Collector.

I'm also interested in SepticSceptic's Web based XMLTV source. I remember using an XMLTV scraped from the web back in the analogue days - but think it got shut down due to copyright.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers, David

MWA

14 posts

Geek

#3398496 30-Jul-2025 20:59

Hi David

It was fe31nz that mentioned the five multiplexers. I am not entirely sure how to do that.

Yes, I have only been talking about DVB-T (Terrestial). I have two machines, one with the same Hauppage WinTV-quadHD as you and an older machine with the Hauppage WinTV-HD-2200 dual digital and dual analog tuner card.

I scan on either 562 MHz, 578 MHz and 594 MHz to Waikato - Te Aroha.

I am not that familiar with MediaPortal, only tried it when I recentyly upgraded to Windows 10 on a machine because it deleted Media Centre during the upgrade.

Yes, the MediaPortal XMLTV plug in imports the tvguide.xml file generated by EPG Collector. https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/XmlTv+Plugin

I have also been using Windows Media Centre since 2010.

Cheers, Mark

SepticSceptic

2193 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

#3398562 30-Jul-2025 23:04

This is my primary XMLTV: https://i.mjh.nz/nz/epg.xml

Haven't the EPG Collector for the longest time, and used terrestrial TV.

Now use XMLTV, on Hauppauge usb dvt tuner, hosted on Emby

fe31nz

1232 posts

Uber Geek

#3398568 30-Jul-2025 23:47

MWA:

Hi David

It was fe31nz that mentioned the five multiplexers. I am not entirely sure how to do that.

Yes, I have only been talking about DVB-T (Terrestial). I have two machines, one with the same Hauppage WinTV-quadHD as you and an older machine with the Hauppage WinTV-HD-2200 dual digital and dual analog tuner card.

I scan on either 562 MHz, 578 MHz and 594 MHz to Waikato - Te Aroha.

I am not that familiar with MediaPortal, only tried it when I recentyly upgraded to Windows 10 on a machine because it deleted Media Centre during the upgrade.

Yes, the MediaPortal XMLTV plug in imports the tvguide.xml file generated by EPG Collector. https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/XmlTv+Plugin

I have also been using Windows Media Centre since 2010.

Cheers, Mark

That is "multiplexes", not "multiplexers". A multiplex is a set of channels broadcast as digital streams on one transmitter frequency. NZ has five multiplexes at all locations around NZ for FreeviewHD. There may also be one or more local only multiplexes, such as 45 South from Oamaru at present. The local multiplexes have come and gone over the years. The official table of the frequencies can be found here:

https://www.rsm.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/documents/digital-television-channel-usage-table.pdf

All the FreeviewHD multiplexes are supposed to broadcast the same EPG data, and that EPG data should be for all the channels on all the FreeviewHD multiplexes. If you can not get good EPG from one FreeviewHD multiplex, the first thing to do is to try all the other multiplexes as there is usually only one or two that will currently have a fault and be broadcasting bad EPG or no EPG.

MWA

14 posts

Geek

#3398685 31-Jul-2025 12:23

Thanks Fe31nz.

So when the MHEG5 was playing up for me and I tried scanning on 562 MHz, then 578 MHz and lasty 594 MHz. That meant I was actually scanning on DTV32, DTV34 and DTV36 respectively? As none of them were actually working for me, I should have then tried DTV28 526-534 MHz or DTV38 606-614 MHz?

fe31nz

1232 posts

Uber Geek

#3398943 1-Aug-2025 00:14

MWA:

Thanks Fe31nz.

So when the MHEG5 was playing up for me and I tried scanning on 562 MHz, then 578 MHz and lasty 594 MHz. That meant I was actually scanning on DTV32, DTV34 and DTV36 respectively? As none of them were actually working for me, I should have then tried DTV28 526-534 MHz or DTV38 606-614 MHz?

Yes. The frequency you need to tune to is the centre frequency, so if it says 526-534, then 534-526=8 Mhz, the bandwidth of NZ DVB-T muliplexes. Half of that is 4 MHz, so the centre frequency is 526+4=530 MHz. Similarly, for 606-614, use 610 Mhz.

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