Vista SP2 with TV pack.

When I first installed TV pack, the sub-channels were working great, I was enjoying 60+ different channels for free...but just the last few days, all my sub-channels are showing the same content as the main channel. Can anyone tell me why? And how do I go about correcting it?

 

 

The TV Pack is very unstable and you might as well get used to things like this happening. I'd recomend going to 7, which is 5X more stable.

Anyways, what you need to do is resetup the TV data from scratch. To do this stop all the Media Center services and processes, then delete this directory.
%ProgramData%\Microsoft\eHome\mcepg*.db

Now reboot and the next time you launch MC it will prompt you to re-run the TV setup.

I probably had to do this once a month when I was running the TV Pack, which really sucked because it took me like an hour to add all my channel mappings and series recordings back in. One thing I did to prevent this was to make a full image backup at 4am, then on the days it did something like this I'd just restore. Still a big pain, but not as bad as setting it up from scratch.

Wouldn't it be easier if I go into setting/general/windows media center setup/run setup again? Think of that...I think I am going to try it now.  

 

EDIT: I am happy to report that I got all my sub-channels back by rerunning the setup. God knows when I am going to lose them again.

Glad to hear you got it working. I have to say though, I assumed you tried that already.