customize program guide

[jnaranjo]

Hello!
I am testing out the new BTV and it seems great. I have a question concerning the program guide though, I need to manually adjust the channels because I've basically spliced my cable feed and where I live the channels do not match up with what's given as options during the BTV install. Example: I live in NYC and CBS is on channel 2, because of the way I've spliced my cable and I'm using the Tuner card CBS shows up on channel 12. This is just one example, all the channels are off and I need to manually set these up, is there a way to do this or am I out of luck and will not be able to use the program guide? Thanks for any help!
-me

[RobertH]

as long as the times still line up you can use this and change the freqency tables snapstream uses for tuning so you get on the right channel:
http://www.snapstream.com/Community/...s/customorder/

[jnaranjo]

Thanks for this, it looks exactly like what I need. Will try it tonight.

[jnaranjo]

I've finally had some time to look at this, apologies for bringing this back up, and I realize I may have left out some important information. Example I am using an nvidia personal cinema card which I believe uses WDM instead of directx for the channel line up. I did a search in my registry for the reg key mentioned in the article above and it does not exist. Am I right in thinking that this will not work for me? Thanks for your help.
-jn

[RobertH]

the registry keys in the article only exist when you are overriding the frequencies, on most stock machines the tables dont exist and windows will just use the defaults for the current tuning space/country

[jnaranjo]

RobertH,
Finally bought SS:BTV a few weeks ago. I never really had a chance to work on this and instead used XMLTV which works ok, couple complaints about the manual process and sometimes information is missing(where is the best place to go find information about XMLTV?) so I want to try this again through the next couple of days and have a question. Basically want to know if you've ever tried what you recommended and if you know if SS will be allowing us to cutomize the EPG directly instead of using this type of hack.
Thanks for your help.
jn

[RobertH]

ive never had to use it because I just have basic cable and ive never had the channels in the wrong order cause of a mix up or anything. Ive heard other users having success with it

the best place for xmltv would be their website over on sourceforge. the best place for the importer woul d be the development/support thread for it on these forums.

btv like many other programs that just rely on directshow to control tuner cards dont allow doing any re-alignment like this unless you fudge with the freqnecy tables in the registry.

[jnaranjo]

OK!
Wanted to follow up and let you all know that this worked fine. My first atttempt failed miserably but this time worked beautifully! Yahoo I am very very psyched!
XMLTV is nice but I found it flaky cannot compare to the SNAPSTREAM.NET information. If there are ever any questions on this do not hesitate to contact me!
WooHoo!!!
RobertH thanks for the direction!