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Windows vista/xp #14

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stubbertville opened this issue Dec 16, 2022 · 42 comments
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Windows vista/xp #14

stubbertville opened this issue Dec 16, 2022 · 42 comments

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stubbertville commented Dec 16, 2022

is there any chance of adding vista or xp support? I would understand xp but vista with the 2008 media center update basically makes it windows 7 media center, as well as I know some people who are hell bent on using vista and would use epg123 if supported!

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garyan2 commented Dec 16, 2022

There are a lot of differences between VMC and 7MC. For 7MC, Microsoft had published information on the structure of the MXF file to import into WMC as well as provided loadmxf.exe to perform that import. I don't have any information on a structure for VMC and don't even know if loadmxf.exe is included. So, without anything to guide me on how to make it possible, no, there won't be any VMC support.

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I mean fair enough, https://sourceforge.net/projects/epgcollector/files/V4.0/ found this, it might help!

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garyan2 commented Dec 16, 2022

How is epg collector going to help? Does it work for VMC?

@stubbertville
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it seems to support xp and vista, It was just something I found seems like yours but was way less user friendly

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which btw I do really appreciate what youve done!

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garyan2 commented Dec 16, 2022

Yah, definitely way less user friendly and more focused on getting guide listings from the broadcast stream. It can make an MXF file for WMC, but for 7MC and newer. I haven't seen anything for VMC.

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stubbertville commented Dec 16, 2022 via email

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garyan2 commented Dec 16, 2022

No discord or twitter, but use thegreenbutton.tv mostly for support. Being able to run on Vista is not the same as supporting VMC. Heck, I can run epg123 (server side) on XP, but no way I can support the XP media center. Same goes for Vista without any understanding of how to import guide listings into it, if even possible.

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stubbertville commented Dec 16, 2022 via email

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stubbertville commented Dec 17, 2022 via email

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garyan2 commented Dec 17, 2022

Well then, take a generated mxf file from epg123 or epg collector, edit it to change 'version="6.1.0.0"' to 'version="6.0.0.0"' in 2 places, and try to import it into your VMC.

Import it by using the command shell with 'loadmxf.exe -i "<path_to_mxf_file>".

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stubbertville commented Dec 17, 2022 via email

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garyan2 commented Dec 17, 2022

The mxf file is really an xml file so you can open/edit in notepad.

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stubbertville commented Dec 17, 2022 via email

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garyan2 commented Dec 17, 2022

Not surprised. The differences between VMC and 7MC are pretty big and I have nothing to work with to know what they all are to even contemplate supporting VMC.

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EPG Collector V4.0 Fixpak 2 Release Notes.txt
Its so weird here the txt for epg collector and says it supports vista

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stubbertville commented Dec 17, 2022 via email

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garyan2 commented Dec 17, 2022

TLS 1.2

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stubbertville commented Dec 17, 2022 via email

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garyan2 commented Dec 17, 2022

So I tried it and it just gives an error about manifest definition does not match assembly reference Exception from hresult 0x00131040

This could be due to the publicKey being different for mcepg and mcstore. Since I don't have those files, I don't know what they should be.

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stubbertville commented Dec 17, 2022 via email

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https://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/viewtopic.php?f=93&t=8837&start=20#p95691 found out windows xp is actually kinda easy

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garyan2 commented Dec 17, 2022

So I tried it and it just gives an error about manifest definition does not match assembly reference Exception from hresult 0x00131040

This could be due to the publicKey being different for mcepg and mcstore. Since I don't have those files, I don't know what they should be.

Well, it's not the publicKey. They are the same, but it could be the version number needs to be 6.0.6000.0 instead of 6.0.0.0. You can try that and import with loadmxf.exe.

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stubbertville commented Dec 17, 2022 via email

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garyan2 commented Dec 17, 2022

Interesting. It looks like it doesn't like the copyright character. Delete the © symbol in providers and try again.

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stubbertville commented Dec 17, 2022 via email

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stubbertville commented Dec 18, 2022 via email

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garyan2 commented Dec 18, 2022

Access is denied to what?

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stubbertville commented Dec 18, 2022 via email

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stubbertville commented Dec 18, 2022 via email

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garyan2 commented Dec 18, 2022

That would be helpful to see what is going on. email link to download from to support@garyan2.net

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stubbertville commented Dec 19, 2022 via email

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garyan2 commented Dec 19, 2022

Take a look here https://garyan2.github.io/addchannels.html

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stubbertville commented Dec 19, 2022 via email

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garyan2 commented Dec 19, 2022

Yes.

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stubbertville commented Dec 19, 2022 via email

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garyan2 commented Dec 19, 2022

I did. It's been a little strange. Changing the version should do the trick but I am getting the same access denied error as you. It is coming from loadmxf when trying to insert an item in the WMC database. What is really strange is I actually got to 94% import complete and then got a "object reference not set to an instance" error and then right back to access denied. I wonder if there is an update missing.

I also tried someone else's MXF file from long ago for Vista that supposedly worked back then but get an access denied on that one as well.

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stubbertville commented Dec 19, 2022 via email

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Hey sorry to bump the thread but any way you could take another’s look at it? I’d be willing to pay you

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