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Season and Episodes numbers are added in xmltv_ns format understandable by most TV solutions. If there is no description existing in RAW EPG data they are added from TVDB too (if available). WebGrab+Plus – a free but slow source for nearly every country and language in the WorldĮxternal XML files - to use XMLTV- compatible XML files from other sourcesĪll sources can be combined as wanted and after data download the EPG can be compared with to grep season and episodes numbers often missing in the "raw" EPG data. TVSpielfilm - a fast and free source for German speaking countriesĮpgData - a fast but paid source for German speaking countriesĬlickfinder - a fast but paid source for German speaking countries a fast and free source for North American countries (USA, Canada, Mexico) The recent supported EPG data sources are: The installation and configuration is described in the manual, available in English and German for download. Version 0.5.0.1 (and higher when available) has full NextPVR Support included. This way you can use EPG-Buddy together with nearly every TV Solution for PC. But you always can match channel names manually. That's why this comfort function is not available for some TV engines. There is one comfort function, the matching of channel names read from TV Database, that needs to be written individual for every TV engine. As EPG-Buddy delivers it’s data in XMLTV compatible format it can be used together with nearly every available TV solution for PC including, but not limited to MediaPortal, Argus TV, NextPVR, DVB-Viewer,… Some features may not be available for every solution but the main features are working with all of them as long as they are able to use XMLTV compatible EPG data. You can use various sources for your EPG data. With EPG-Buddy you can configure your EPG with a few mouse clicks and after you're done your EPG is refreshed completely invisible and automatic on a daily or weekly base. Available Sources for grabbing EPG data from online sources are hard to configure, especially if you are new to this topic. "On Air"- EPG often is of bad quality or not available at all. Nearly all available sources needs complicated scripting and fiddling with XML files or similar.

Up to now a good EPG is one of the most complicated things to achieve in the HTPC world. This program should make EPG grabbing as easy as possible.

I like to introduce our latest tool, called "EPG-Buddy".