IceTV Forum

Hi, and welcome to the beta test for IceTV's EPG for Windows 7.

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What is this?
This is a beta test, meaning that we need help from our users in getting the final touches working.  Things may be broken or may not work at all.  Things might work and then suddenly break.  Your TV shows might not get recorded, your channel listing might get completely hosed, and you might even have to reinstall Windows 7 to get things working again.  We'll of course avoid these problems as much as we can, but don't blame us if your significant other's favourite show doesn't get recorded and you cop the blame for it.  :)  Needless to say, this should probably not be used for your primary TV recorder.

Who can use this?
All IceTV subscribers are welcome to join.  You'll need the User ID and password for your account.  If you forgot your password, you can get it emailed to you here (http://www.icetv.com.au/cgi-bin/webmembers.cgi?op=login).

What is the goal?
To get the EPG working in Windows 7's Media Center at least as well as it does in the XP and Vista versions.  Windows 7's Media Center has some nice new features, and we'll try to support them as best we can.  The Interactive client will be updated for Windows 7 some time in the future.  Right now we're concentrating on the guide data.

What's working now?

• TV guide data for all regions.
• Automatic channel mapping for guide listings (although there may be a couple where we don't have the channel names quite right yet).
• Program attributes such as titles, descriptions, genres (categories), ratings, year, original air dates (on some programs), and indicators for movie, repeat, CC, and HD.
• Series and single recordings.
• Series and episode descriptions both displayed on the program details pages.
• Searching. Categories should show up right away, but searching by Title and Keyword takes some time for the data to be indexed by Media Center. See note further below about searching.

What's not working yet?

• Cast list. On the program details pages, you can use the left and right arrow keys to move between the pages "synopsis", "actions", and "other showings". There's supposed to be a 4th page for "cast + crew", which probably only shows up on Movies. We've been told that this is currently broken in beta 1 of Win7, but has been fixed in a later release (which hasn't been released to the public as of yet).
  Update: The cast list is now working also.

Setup Media Center First
If you just installed Windows 7, run through the Media Center setup before loading the IceTV guide data.  We've had reports of problems when the IceTV guide data is loaded before scanning for channels in Media Center.  Once it finds all your channels and you have your tuners and other hardware setup, then continue with these instructions.

Download
Download the file "icetv_win7_epg_2.zip" attached at the bottom of this post. This file contains the "webget.exe" program for downloading the guide data, and a batch file to run webget and load the data into MCE.

Install
Unzip the files to any directory on your hard drive.  For example, "C:\IceTV" would be fine.  Open the file "load_icetv_epg.bat" in Notepad and edit the following line, changing "USERID" to your User ID and "PASSWORD" to your password:

webget.exe "http://iceguide.icetv.com.au/cgi-bin/epg3/iceguide.cgi?op=mxfguide" -u USERID -p PASSWORD -o icetv_epg.mxf

If your Windows directory for Windows 7 isn't on the C drive, change the path "C:\windows\ehome" also.

Load the guide data
Double-click the file "load_icetv_epg.bat".  This will run webget to download the guide data and load it into MCE.  This can be done with Media Center running or not, so there's no need to shut it down first.

Check the channel mappings for guide listings
In Media Center, go to Tasks / Settings / TV / Guide / Edit Channels.  Take a look at all the channel names.  They should end with "-IceTV" when they're correctly mapped to IceTV listings.  For example, if you have a channel with the scanned name "ABC1", it should show up here as "ABC1-IceTV".  If it doesn't, see below for how to map it manually.  Be aware that in some cases such as with regional channels, it might create a new channel that you don't actually have.  For example, in Adelaide, 7 Digital can be on both 6 and 7, and you'll probably see "7 Digital-IceTV" for both of these channel numbers.  If you only get a TV signal on channel 7, you'll want to uncheck 6 to hide it.  If you're not sure, go to the TV guide (use the green button as as shortcut) and see if you actually have a TV signal on all the listed channels.

Manually map channel listings (if needed)
If any of your channels aren't already mapped to the IceTV listings, you'll need to map them manually:

• First, make a note of the original channel name as it was scanned by Media Center.  
• Then click the channel name to go to the settings page.  For example, when mapping channel 2 for ABC1, the title of the settings page would be "Settings for 2 ABC1".  
• Then click "Edit Listings" to go to the page titled "Channel 2 Listings".  
• There should be a list of channel names in the lower right part of the screen.  Scroll down until you find the channel name you're working on, but with "-IceTV" at the end of it.  In this current example, we'd look for "ABC1-IceTV" (sometimes you have to scroll down further than you think, but they should be in alphabetic order unless you've clicked "Sort by Number" on the left side).  If you don't find the one you need, then something's wrong.  Skip down to the section below named "Help! It's not working!".  
• If you find it, click to select it, and it should take you back to the page titled "Settings for 2 ABC1".  On this page, look for the "Channel listing" and make sure the name still has "-IceTV" in it.  In this example the "Channel listing" value would be "ABC1-IceTV".  If it doesn't end in "-IceTV", try editing the listings again, and if it still doesn't work, skip down to the section below named "Help! It's not working!".

Important: If you have to manually map a channel to the IceTV guide listings, please post a message on this board to let us know what the original scanned channel name was before you mapped it.  We'll use that to update our database, so the next person gets it mapped automatically.

Check the guide
When all the channels look ok, go to the guide (use the green button as a shortcut) and check your listings.  Hopefully you have good guide data for all your channels.  If you need help, skip down to the section below named "Help! It's not working!".  If it all looks good, celebrate by dancing on the nearest table, and then post a message in this board to let us know.

Tip: Disable EIT guide data
Once you get the IceTV guide data working, you won't need (or want) the limited guide data that's sent over the air with digital channels.  Here's how to disable it:

• Go to Tasks / Settings / TV / Guide / Edit Channels.
• Click one of the channel names that you've enabled with a check mark (for example: ABC1-IceTV).
• Click "Edit Listings", and then click "Disable Inband".  Then click Save, and then Save again, to take you back to the Edit Channels page.
• Repeat for each enabled IceTV channel, then click Save on the Edit Channels page when done.

Tip: Setup automatic guide downloads
You can use Win7's Task Scheduler to have the batch file run automatically to update the guide:

• In Windows 7, go to Start / Control Panel / All Control Panel Items / Administrative Tools / Task Scheduler.  
• Click "Task Scheduler Library" on the left side of the window to list existing tasks.  
• Click "Create Basic Task" on the right side of the window.  
• Enter a name for the task, such as "Update IceTV Guide", then click Next.  
• Leave the Trigger option set to "Daily" and click Next.  
• Set a start time for the task.  We usually recommend that the guide data be updated sometime after 1pm, but please do our servers a favour and pick some time other than exactly 1pm so everyone doesn't hit us at once.  ;)  Then click Next.  
• Leave the option "Start a program" selected and click Next.  
• Click the Browse button and navigate to the directory where you saved the files you downloaded earlier.  Select "load_icetv_epg.bat" and click Open.  In the "Start in" box, type the directory again, so it's the same as where the file is located, then click Next.  For example:
  
  Program/script: C:\IceTV\load_icetv_epg.bat
  Start in: C:\IceTV
  
  
• Check all the settings, then click Finish.
• You should then see your task in the list at the top.  If not, make sure you have "Task Scheduler Library" selected on the left side of the window, and not "Task Scheduler (Local)".
• To edit the task's settings, double-click it in the list.
• To run the task manually, select it and then click "Run" on the right side.

Tip: Searching in Media Center
After loading new guide data, it may take some time before Windows indexes everything. Until that happens, searching in Media Center by Title or Keyword may not find what you want. You can either wait for Windows to re-index everything on its own schedule, or you can force it to re-index everything immediately:

• In Windows 7, go to Start / Control Panel / All Control Panel Items / Indexing Options.
• You should see "Windows Media Center" in the list of "Included Locations".
• Click Advanced, then click Rebuild, then click OK.  This will rebuild the index and include all the latest guide data.
• When it says "Indexing complete" at the top, click Close, and then searching in Media Center should include all the latest data.

Tip: enable colours in the guide
To turn on different colours in the guide based on the show's category (Movie, News, etc.), go to Tasks / Settings / TV / Guide / Guide Page Options.  Then enable the checkbox for "Apply colored backgrounds to shows, based on their category".

Help! It's not working!
If something just isn't working, then, well, maybe you found a bug.  It might be our bug, or it might be Microsoft's (remember that Win7 is still in beta too).  Instead of using the normal support options on our web site, please post a bug report in this board and tell us everything you can think of that might help us (and other users) understand the problem.  At a minimum, please include the guide region you're in (Sydney, Melbourne, etc.).  If you're having trouble with channel mapping (which is the trickiest part of this whole process -- we feel your pain), let us know the original channel name as it was scanned by Media Center ("ABC1"), the channel number it's on (2), and what you're seeing (or not) when you try to map the listings to it.  Details are good -- we love details -- we can't get enough of them.  :)

Good luck!

Russell

thanks very much, will test it soon.

I know that its early days, but will ICETV incorporate:
tv logo's into the guide?
interactive
iphone app etc etc.

Also, any possibility of a Nokia touch screen app for ICETV? (i'm probably dreaming :))

We are definitely looking at ways to enhance the guide and use the built-in functionality of the guide in Windows 7.

From the original post:

QuoteWhat is the goal?
To get the EPG working in Windows 7's Media Center at least as well as it does in the XP and Vista versions.  Windows 7's Media Center has some nice new features, and we'll try to support them as best we can.  The Interactive client will be updated for Windows 7 some time in the future.  Right now we're concentrating on the guide data.

So, yes, IceTV Interactive will be updated in the future to support Windows 7 and this will include support for recordings via all the current available options like iPhone app and IceTV Widget.

Hi I don't have ABC1-ICETV in my list to choose. The original name is ABC1. I am in Melbourne and I hope it's just an oversight on your part and it was forgotten to be put in.

Also TEN HD is doing the same as above but I use ONE HD so I get away with that.
At least the ABC1 over the air EPG is fairly good.
Also does anyone know where I can see the file with the guide data so i can check if ABC1 is listed correctly or not.
Kevin

Edit: I tried Sydney and got the same so I went in and reset up the tv (Melbourne again) and got ABC1-IceTV but now ONE HD is missing hmmm do I blame ICE or Microsoft lol back to try again.
Kevin

Edit2: Got all working but had to do one manual edit. "Nine Digital HD" was the original in Melbourne.
Also One HD has 3 listings in the edit Menu all have IceTV after the name but at least only one shows in the guide no mater how many are ticked.
Ah the fun of playing with betas.
Kevin

Well done! So far so good.
ancall

Hi there,

As I am also located in Melbourne, my initial experience is similar to that of zoszos68.

* The only channel listing that didn't automatically map was Nine HD-IceTV.  As he said, the original scanned channel name for Channel 90 is Nine Digital HD.

* There were no IceTV channel listings downloaded for ABC1 or ABC HDTV.

* The Network Ten mapping was:

• 1 - ONE HD - no mapping
• 10 - Ten Digital - Ten Digital-IceTV
• 11 - ONE HD - no mapping
• 12 - One Digital - One Digital-IceTV

Thanks for this guys.  Whilst I know it's only beta, I was getting frustrated watching my subscription tick away after moving to Windows 7.  Happy to provide any feedback you need.

Patricio.

Quote from: Patricio on February 25, 2009, 01:48:24 AM
* The only channel listing that didn't automatically map was Nine HD-IceTV.  As he said, the original scanned channel name for Channel 90 is Nine Digital HD.

Thanks for letting us know.  I've updated our database so hopefully it should auto-map for the next person in Melbourne.  Strange that the scanned name is different in Melbourne than Sydney, but I guess that's just the way it is.

Quote
* There were no IceTV channel listings downloaded for ABC1 or ABC HDTV.

Sorry to hear that.  All the listings for those channels are being downloaded, but for some reason MCE isn't letting you select them when doing manual mappings.  We saw something similar in our own testing, but only on one machine, when other machines worked fine with the same data.  I've also been reading similar reports from other forums, so my guess is that we're looking at some kind of bug in Media Center that will hopefully be corrected in a future version.  We're still investigating, and will get back to you when we know more.

Thanks for the report.

Russell

ABC data not being able to be mapped is a known bug in Windows 7 Media Centre and it's being worked on by Microsoft. AFAIK, it's close to being resolved and will hopefully be in the RC1 build.

Hi guys,

Maybe i'm missing something, but after running this beta on Windows 7 i find that media centre no longer recognises any shows as being a series. This means the record series option is never present. Any ideas?

Also, I'm in Canberra and the following channels didn't map automatically:

SC10 Canberra
WIN TV Canberra
Prime Canberra
Prime HD

Cheers

Quote from: s3070416 on February 25, 2009, 10:06:41 PM
...media centre no longer recognises any shows as being a series. This means the record series option is never present.

Looks like you found a bug!  ;D  It was being displayed for some shows, but not nearly enough.  I've fixed it now, so if you update your guide you should see the Record Series option available on a lot more shows.  There may be the odd one still not showing right, but about 99% of them should be ok now, and by the end of today (Thursday, 26 Feb) they should all be fixed.  Thanks for reporting this.

Quote
Also, I'm in Canberra and the following channels didn't map automatically:

SC10 Canberra
WIN TV Canberra
Prime Canberra
Prime HD

Great, thanks, I've updated the database so they should be correct for the next person.

Russell

Great, thanks, Russel.

I am in Sydney and have had technical problems with recording in MCE. It may be the way in which MCE treats my dual Haupauge HVR-1100 tuners or something to do with the guide until recently entirely EIT. So I am interested to hear that ABC guide entries are a 'known problem' for ICE. Does the problem apply to EIT entries for ABC too?  I have not been able to load ABC ice entries in Sydney so am still using EIT for ABC, but ICE for all the other channels which have been correctly mapped by Russel's software. After one (1) day, it seems that the tuner issues may be resolved for the channels that are now using ICE data, but not the ABC on EIT. Has anyone else experienced this issue or any change since the release of this beta? What is the particular problem with ABC?

Regards
Stuart

Hi Stuart,

I can't really say why your recording problems are different with the IceTV guide vs. EIT guide, but I do know a bit about the ABC mapping problem.  Most of our test machines mapped all channels fine, but one machine had trouble with ABC1 and ONE HD.  We have no idea why, since the data was the same on all machines, but we've been hearing through the grapevine that this may be a known issue in Win7 beta 1, and that Microsoft may be working on it already.  We're still trying to get confirmation on that, and we'll let you know when we know more.  In the mean time, it seems like some people are able to map all channels successfully (even automatically, in most cases), but others are seeing the problem.

Thanks,
Russell

Hi,

Just wondering if I can get ahold of the beta program. It would seem I'm either blind, or it has been removed from your post. I am very interested to try it

Thanks

Chris

EDIT: Ignore me, i'm blind!

Ok, all installed, but I only get listings for ABC, and nothing else! Im in the Canberra region

Quote
Ok, all installed, but I only get listings for ABC, and nothing else! Im in the Canberra region

Hi Chris,

After you load the guide, go into the Edit Channels page like I described in the long post above, and see how many of your channels have "-IceTV" at the end of the name.  For the ones that don't have it, follow my instructions for manual channel mapping, to map the IceTV listings to the channel.  If you have trouble with it, let us know what you're seeing and we'll be glad to help.

Russell

Setting them manually, I can get all of them except
ABC3
SBS3
SBS4
SC TEN.

Hope This is helpful.

Just a quick note, i'm at work testing it out at the moment (its a home PC, just got some time on my hands) but don't get prime here on the rabbit ears. Will let you know how they go when I take it home

Quote from: csmlsim on February 27, 2009, 04:46:55 PM
Setting them manually, I can get all of them except ABC3, SBS3, SBS4, SC TEN.

Ok, you're doing pretty good then.  The only one of those we provide guide data for is SC TEN, which someone else said was being scanned by Media Center as "SC10 Canberra".  When you get home, take a look at that channel again in the Edit Channels page and see what the name is.  If it has "-IceTV" at the end of it, like "SC10 Canberra-IceTV", then it's setup correctly.  If not, what is the name you're seeing?  And also, do you see "SC10 Canberra-IceTV" as an available option when trying to do the manual mapping for it?

Thanks,
Russell

Yep, got them all except SC Ten. There was an SC10 Canberra, but no SC10 Canberra - Ice TV. I'm not at home atm. It was a busy weekend so didn't get a chance to look any further into it. I will double check when I get home

Yeah, ther is no SC10 Canberra - IceTV. Sorry for the late replay, been very busy last couple of weeks

Hi, has anyone tested the beta against buid 7057 yet?

Yes I've just tried with 7057 x64. It works perfectly, the ABC and 10 issues seem to be fixed, every channel I wanted had an IceTV mapping without me having to do anything.

Also Media center just seems to run much nicer, in previous versions it would pause and take a few seconds to switch between full screen and windowed. In this build it is completely instant. Very nice. There are also new sounds at media center startup and moving around the menus as well.

The new wallpapers in the this build are really nice too.

Quote from: splark on March 14, 2009, 05:55:09 PM
Yes I've just tried with 7057 x64. It works perfectly, the ABC and 10 issues seem to be fixed, every channel I wanted had an IceTV mapping without me having to do anything.

Also Media center just seems to run much nicer, in previous versions it would pause and take a few seconds to switch between full screen and windowed. In this build it is completely instant. Very nice. There are also new sounds at media center startup and moving around the menus as well.

The new wallpapers in the this build are really nice too.

I have now upgraded to the 32 bit version. At this stage, although I agree that it works with 7057, my ieeus with ABC 1 and ABC 2 have not been resolved. But I didn't set up the TV settings, just let it use my previous settings. What did you do? Should I ask it to set up all my settings from scratch?

Ok, I set up the TV signal afresh, and although none of the channels were not automatically mapped to ICE-TV, I was able to manually map each of them including the ABC channels which had been problems.  So apart from the fact that the Hauppague HVR tuner drivers are still not working properly with Win 7, I am a little bit closer to where I need to be.

Can also confirm 7057 32bit working well.
Slightly off topic, I have just noticed a new option in the stop time setting too. You have an option to stop 5, 10,15, etc minutes after like before, but now you can say "if possible" what a good idea! I am quite sure that wasn't an option on previous builds.

Thanks so much for working on this guys and thanks for making it available as an open beta.

I'm running on 7057 64bit version of Win7, using Sydney Region and all is well so far.   :D


Thanks again!

I have Win 7 7068 installed and am still having lots of problems with dual  HVR 1100 tuner cards with series recording.I should say that this may well be because I have not done clean installs but upgrade from 7000 - 7057 - 7068 but who knows. The latest behaviour is that ABC programs, in particular, record on both ABC1 and ABC HD even though specifically instructed only to record on ABC 1. I also seem to get WIN 7 reporting that ABC news will not record because another airing of it will be in a week. In other words, shows like ABC news at 7pm are coming up as  a repeat and being ignored. This is even the case when I have record new and rerun selected for the series.... It is unclear to me whether this is a ICE TV issue or Win7, but I would assume that if the data were correct, ABC News at 7pm should be recognised by Wind 7 as 'New' and not repeat or rerun...

Regards
Stuart

Quote from: hamping on April 09, 2009, 09:43:51 PM
I have Win 7 7068 installed and am still having lots of problems with dual  HVR 1100 tuner cards with series recording.I should say that this may well be because I have not done clean installs but upgrade from 7000 - 7057 - 7068 but who knows. The latest behaviour is that ABC programs, in particular, record on both ABC1 and ABC HD even though specifically instructed only to record on ABC 1. I also seem to get WIN 7 reporting that ABC news will not record because another airing of it will be in a week. In other words, shows like ABC news at 7pm are coming up as  a repeat and being ignored. This is even the case when I have record new and rerun selected for the series.... It is unclear to me whether this is a ICE TV issue or Win7, but I would assume that if the data were correct, ABC News at 7pm should be recognised by Wind 7 as 'New' and not repeat or rerun...

Hi Stuart,

Yes, I'm afraid most of what you're describing is probably due to problems in the IceTV guide for Win7.  This is a known issue at the moment, and unfortunately one that hasn't been resolved yet.  But it's definitely on the list of things that need to be fixed, so hopefully we'll get it done soon.  There's more info here:

http://www.icetv.com.au/iceforum/index.php?topic=1638.0

Russell

Nice piece of work, thank you IceTV!

I, too, can confirm that it is running OK on Window 7 Build 7068 (x86).

One issue for me:  I'm in Melbourne.  TEN Digital does not map to TEN Digital - IceTV and is not shown for manual mapping, however the listings against TEN Digital in the Guide appear to be IceTV's (and full listings that span a week).  In practical terms it makes no difference to my use of the Guide but it would be good to have it fixed because it would reassure me that the Guide is fully IceTV's.

All working well on W7 7100 (32 bit). WMC looks even better and the guides are fully loaded... just need the interactive server scheduling to work. Any ETA on a beta?

thanks, boh

Windows 7 RC 7100 X64

Everything is working great, Including the cast listings.

However :(

I have recently moved from Clare SA, To jamestown SA

We only get SC10 Port Pirie and GKS/BKN, plus all the SBS and ABC rubbish that gets aired. these channels are al SD.

I have seen people talk about SC10 listing for cambera and the likes.

Is it possible to use these listings for SC10 port pirie ?

Hi. A non technical issue. Eventually we will cater for regional SA and its many channel permutations, and we thank you for your patience. Unfortunately there is no capability to 'cherry-pick' channels, so were you to opt for Canberra's SC10, you'd have to take the rest of its Channel line-up. Your best bet anyway would be Vic Regional SC10, as it more closely reflects the AFL-affected program line-ups than the East Coast.

Thanks for you reply,


I am unsure how, but when my EPG updated last night, I now have a correct EPG listing for SC10 and GKS/BKN. right times and programs.

Thanks alot for what ever you did.

Cheers.

i am in Ballina Northern NSW and recieve TV Signial from the Lismore transmitters.
in setting up the EPG for win 7 i get no ice conversion for
ABC1
Prime Lismore
Sc10 Lismore

D Moore

Hi guys,

I just installed the Windows 7 RC and so far it looks....the same.  One IceTV related thing I did notice is that I can't get an IceTV guide listing for PRIME HD in Canberra. The automapping failed so I followed the usual procedure for manual mapping but found no '...-IceTV' listing related to Prime's HD channel. In my IceTV account settings, I have Prime Southern HD in the ACT region selected so I don't think it's been excluded from the EPG download.

Is this possibly a problem with the IceTV database?

Thanks

Hi Guys,

Just installed on clean build of RC 7100 (TV had already been setup however). Looks fine except for two probs:

1. There's no channel 7-icetv to map seven to
2. Good news week (can't seem to find any others) doesn't offer to record the series option (i noticed there's no data for next monday, unsure if that effects it - i.e. no multiple showings)

I have 4 digital tuners and 2 analogue tuners registered with media center (doubt it would matter though).

Cheers.

Hi everyone, I'm a Perth WA user here , and I'm having problems trying to get IceTV guide data into Windows 7 MCE. Tonight I've just completed another fresh install of 7100, followed the IceTV beta instructions to the point where all of my scanned stations have the '-icetv' after them, but there's no data showing up in the guide at all apart from the OTA now showing info. I've checked the downloaded file (by deleting the line in the batch file that deletes it) and there's guide data in there OK, it's just not showing up in MCE. All hardware tried and tested working flawlessly with Vista MCE.

I'm using a FusionHDTV Lite and a Hauppauge HVR2200.

Any ideas? This is the third fresh reinstall I've done on this system. I can't go back to Vista 'cos I'm deaf and find the captions on live TV invaluable.

Would you believe it? I hadn't noticed that when Win 7 7100 reinstalled it got the date wrong. Fixed the date and everything worked OK.

I'm in reception area of transmitter between Batemans Bay & Moruya on NSW South Coast.  I'm downloading "Wollongong" EPG data from Ice.

All ABC & SBS channels mapped to IceTv automatically but commercials had to be done manually.

Broadcast IDs for commercials were:  SC10 SOUTH COAST, WIN TV SOUTH COAST, SC10 HD (maps to ONE HD), WIN TV HD, PRIME STH COAST & PRIME HD

Just a couple of things.

I just finished setting this up on the w7 RC, and I wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to the IceTV guys. Seriously, guide data makes MCE, and for a little while I was worried that I was going to have to roll back to Vista.

One minor point - WIN HD didn't seem to be mapped correctly. I'm in Canberra, FYI.

Thanks again,

Ben

Loaded RC1 on my media centre did the Astro black mod and changed the channel colours. installed the ice TV beta, all installed without a hitch. it recognised my 2x nova T500's etc, I never had to find and load any drivers. all up and running in a couple of hours. its running as sweet as.... WAF is 9/10.

in the interests of keeping the WAF high, the Question I have given that ice tv wiped out the coloured TV channel icons upon install, will reinstalling them bugger up the ice TV settings? 

Hi,

When can we expect full support for Windows 7? I know there is only a RC version released, but from a support perspective it doesn't look to change before full release 22 October. I would guess that most people who use your services are early adopters, so it would make sense to support us early. What is the problem in supporting windows 7 full out?

thanks.

Hi,

I am trying the Beta on Windows 7 RC. TV Card is Hauppauge HVR2200.

I am in Alice Springs, N.T.

I followed the instructions, set up my channels first in MC, then put my username/password in the bat file and executed it. But I don't get any -IceTV channels (nothing changes). I also tried to do the Mapping, but again don't see the "-IceTV" on any of the channels.

When I execute the bat, the command prompt flashes for a second then dissappears, but I printscreened to see what it says. I just typed up what it said:

QuoteDownloading Guide Data from IceTV
webget.exe 1.4

Downloading 100% >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|
File retrieved OK.

Loading Guide Data into Media Center....
Loading... 0% Error: The following error was encountered while processing the fil
e. Aborting.

Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, Position 1.

Channels include

No.      Name
2         ABC1 
22       ABC2 
23       ABC3 
20       ABC HDTV 
30       SBSHD  
3         SBS ONE 
202      Unknown (182250 kHz)
203      Unknown (196250 kHz)
204      Unknown (527250 kHz)
205      Unknown (548250 kHz)

Any suggestions?

(Oh when I signed up to ICETV, I picked QLDRegional for my Region. Because Central Australia wasn't listed. And QLDRegional has the same channels. Is this what the issue would possibly be? Do you support Central Australia? What region should I set up for Central Australia?)

Windows 7 Build 7260

9 HD is listed on scan as "90 Nine High Definition"  IN ICE it is listed as 90 Nine HD - ICE TV

Michael

Hi Guys,
Trying to install the beta on my Win7 machine, but when I run the batch file (after updating it with my username and password), I get the error "Error 401 retrieving file: Bad username or password."

I'm at a loss as to what to do now.

Real Version of Win7 Home Premium (not a RC).

Never mind, just realised that this account is not active... used the wrong one.

It's October 23. The full version of Windows 7 (RTM) has been available since the last week of July. That 3 months - 13 Weeks. Now the RTM is on the shelves and on shipping PC's. When are we likely to see the FULL Windows 7 compatibility with IceTV? Yes, I know you want to get the bugs out, but everyone else out there have been working hard since July when they gained access to the full retail version of windows 7. The Media Centre plugin "My Movies" is now ready to go, today! They have been working hard the last three months testing it on the RTM, making sure it all worked well. What has IceTV been doing these last three months? There is no excuse, whatsoever, for any software maker of hardware manufacture to not have their programs upgrades and drives complete, ready, and fully compatible as of the 22nd.

It seems that you can only adjust the preset record padding to 2 minutes maximum. 30 minutes would be nice.

Quote from: RufusBoy on October 23, 2009, 09:59:22 AM
What has IceTV been doing these last three months?

Are you running the Beta of IceTV Interactive for Win7 http://www.icetv.com.au/iceforum/index.php?topic=2137.0 (http://www.icetv.com.au/iceforum/index.php?topic=2137.0) yet?

Works great guys. A nice touch is the support for movie covers. I'll definately be renewing my subscription. As mentioned, the 2 min recordings are a problem. I'm hoping you can improve this with the release.
Thanks,