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sarah_tech replied to the thread The early days of EPG for IPTV: getting program guides to work in 2012.The effort involved meant only technical users had proper EPG. Casual users went without. -
SupportAlex replied to the thread The early days of EPG for IPTV: getting program guides to work in 2012.I spent a full weekend in 2012 getting EPG working for 150 channels. It was a badge of honor. -
AdminSarah replied to the thread The early days of EPG for IPTV: getting program guides to work in 2012.Getting the EPG to correctly match channels across different sources was genuinely difficult. -
jake_m replied to the thread The early days of EPG for IPTV: getting program guides to work in 2012.Syncing EPG data with XBMC or MediaPortal required manual mapping between channel names and IDs. -
AdminSarah replied to the thread The early days of EPG for IPTV: getting program guides to work in 2012.The data quality was inconsistent — scraped data sometimes had wrong times or missing programs.
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chris_tv replied to the thread The early days of EPG for IPTV: getting program guides to work in 2012.Running WebGrab+ required scheduling it daily to keep the EPG data fresh. -
STBsupport replied to the thread The early days of EPG for IPTV: getting program guides to work in 2012.WebGrab+Plus was the most popular. It had community-maintained configuration files for hundreds of channels. -
sarah_tech replied to the thread The early days of EPG for IPTV: getting program guides to work in 2012.What scrapers were available for XMLTV data in 2012?
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jake_m replied to the thread The early days of EPG for IPTV: getting program guides to work in 2012.XMLTV was the standard format. Community members would scrape TV schedule websites to build XMLTV files.
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STBsupport replied to the thread The early days of EPG for IPTV: getting program guides to work in 2012.EPG was the holy grail in early IPTV. Getting actual program schedule data was a complex problem.
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TechMike88 posted the thread The early days of EPG for IPTV: getting program guides to work in 2012 in Archives 2010–2012.Electronic Program Guides were a major community project in 2012. This is how we obtained and displayed them. -
Moderator_Max replied to the thread Setting up a home media server for IPTV streams in 2011.Looking back I am impressed by how much the community accomplished with the tools available then. -
AdminSarah replied to the thread Setting up a home media server for IPTV streams in 2011.We did not have simple apps. Everything was manual configuration and command line tweaking.
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DaveStreamer replied to the thread Setting up a home media server for IPTV streams in 2011.The whole experience required technical knowledge that would seem excessive by today standards. -
TechMike88 replied to the thread Setting up a home media server for IPTV streams in 2011.I remember upgrading from 100Mbps to gigabit switches specifically for multi-room IPTV.