Latest version of the tool is here:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/dz4vzhzoynd/GimmeITVHD.zip

This version should work on systems which previously reported "Devices have different scanned lineups"
Some setups used 1 lineup for all devices, others used 1 lineup per device.
This should also fix MR-HIPPO's "LNB doesn't have a satellite" issue.

Can I give a very big thankyou to my Beta testers who patiently ran (sometimes rather buggy) diagnostics code. 

I think it was worth the hassle.

As there were no objections last time, if you find the tool useful and would like to leave a donation please do so Here.

Alban

 The new version has indeed solved my problem.

Thank you. :)

Hi Vistademon - and thanks for this ... never replied with thanks sooner because I have been sweating over Guide Tool trying to make your suggestion above work! Your suggestion really seemed to make sense .. but it doesn't work for me. Not sure if this is off topic (and if it is then somebody tell me and I'll back off quickly) I run Guide Tool and selecting All Lineups shows me the following BBC HD guide services: (-1) Freesat Unmapped - Sky (-1) DVB-S Astra 2A-B-D 28.2 East (-1) Astra 28.2 East (Sky Digital) Free Se (143) Sky Digital BBC Yorks/ITV Yorks (-1) Freesat Unmapped (143) Sky BBC Yorks/ITV Yorks (-1) DVB-S Astra 28.2 East If I Suscribe the BBC HD Channel to any of these services then right click on the Windows Media Centre System Tray icon and select "Update Now" I eventually get the error: "Failed to retrieve EPG Listings Error HeadendID XXXXX is invalid" where XXXXX = 212000, 210000, 120004, 120153 - there doesn't seem to be total consistency here ... I have tried each service twice, run Update Now and on a couple of occasions get a different HeadendID number each time?! (-1) Freesat Unmapped - Sky - 210000 (was 212000 on first test) (-1) DVB-S Astra 2A-B-D 28.2 East - 212000 (-1) Astra 28.2 East (Sky Digital) Free Se - 212000 (143) Sky Digital BBC Yorks/ITV Yorks - 212000 (-1) Freesat Unmapped - 212000 (143) Sky BBC Yorks/ITV Yorks - 212000 (was 120004 on first test) (-1) DVB-S Astra 28.2 East - 212000 (was 120153 on first test) I can get "Now and Next" (and assume this is from the on air info) if I select a channel for a few minutes. All other channels (which are Freeview via my HDHomeRun) work fine and I can see data for one week ahead. So - I am in the lucky position to be able to recieve BBC HD and ITV HD but without the guide information it is a pain to record anything and impossible to "record series" etc. Any help from anyone really appreciated! Thanks Dave

@ phillipo

 What hotfix ????

 

Update for Windows 7 Media Center (KB978632) “Tuner Busy Issue”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978632/en-us

 

 

I don't know how others are faring or if Alban has a remote kill-switch because I hadn't got my lazy-ass round to donating yet but I'm having problems again with ITV HD.(Using the latest version of gimme)

Although I can get it to work most of the time, sometimes when I select ITV HD I get sound only, sometimes picture only, sometimes nothing. I have done a disk check.

phillipo:

I don't know how others are faring or if Alban has a remote kill-switch because I hadn't got my lazy-ass round to donating yet but I'm having problems again with ITV HD.(Using the latest version of gimme)

Trust me - there is no kill switch. Donating is completely optional and was an after-thought anyway.

phillipo:

Although I can get it to work most of the time, sometimes when I select ITV HD I get sound only, sometimes picture only, sometimes nothing. I have done a disk check.

 

This actually sounds like the way the old Red Button version of ITV HD used to behave. Have you still got the fAllowDvbsMHEG registry fix applied? It is not needed for the full-time channel, and could interfere.

The tool just adds the configuration necessary for Media Center to tune into ITV1 HD. After that it is up to Media Center to handle the tunning. It has no resident portion.

As you have experienced issues with missing tuners I suspect there is a deeper problem with your system.

Can you receive ITV4 +1, ITV1 Wales and ITV1 Westcountry reliably? They are on the same transponder.

If you record ITV1 HD, do you have problems with the playback and does playing back the same file repeatedly give the same results?

I don't know what else to suggest. If ITV were messing with the streams then I think others would have noticed it.

Alban

I will do some checking but one thing I noticed was that when the sound was missing I could turn it back on from the context menu - never saw that menu before... cheers

ITV1 HD has 2 audio streams. The primary is Dolby Digital 2 channel. The secondary is MPEG 1 Layer 2 (MP2).

 

Hi

 

V1 worked for me so I am very happy. Tried V2 and it gave me the HD flag but that doesn't really do anything yet that I can see ?

Haven't tried any later versions as I have a nice working system. I am going to try a 32bit install of Win7 so will see how that goes ! ! !

Thank you Alban - Please accept a pint of cooking lager to say thanks for all your hard work.

 Cheers Pete

petrev:

V1 worked for me so I am very happy. Tried V2 and it gave me the HD flag but that doesn't really do anything yet that I can see ?

As I understand it, the flag tells media center to respect the HD flags on individual programmes, but as the guide data doesn't include any it makes no difference. If ITV start flagging programmes, it may start working

petrev:

Haven't tried any later versions as I have a nice working system. I am going to try a 32bit install of Win7 so will see how that goes ! ! !

 

The later versions only contain fixes that allow it to update systems that V2 could not cope with.
There may be other tools in the future that are more flexible.

Note: although it was written for Windows 7 Media Center, it is possible it may work on Vista TV Pack, as I think that uses the same database. Unfortunately I cannot provide support if it doesn't work.

Alban

Dave

Media Center will download all available lineups, i had the same issue with ITV4 +1 until i used guidetool & mapped to a different lineup.

In guidetool you can select anyone of the lineups, with ITV4 +1 i mapped to Freesat and got the full listings, other channels are mapped to Sky Digital, its a question of finding which lineup has the correct listing.

It most likely is Media Center is not downloading all the listings.

Have you tried selecting different lineups for the channels, and theres no need to update guide listings everytime you select a lineup.

Hope this helps.

Alban:

petrev:

V1 worked for me so I am very happy. Tried V2 and it gave me the HD flag but that doesn't really do anything yet that I can see ?

As I understand it, the flag tells media center to respect the HD flags on individual programmes, but as the guide data doesn't include any it makes no difference. If ITV start flagging programmes, it may start working

Isn't everything upscaled anyway that wasn't filmed in HD?

 so why would they "FLAG" it as HD as the whole channel is supposedly HD. (not a very convincing one mind!)

I'm not being clever, just saying... no attitude intended!!

Great tool BTW (already donated)

@alban "This actually sounds like the way the old Red Button version of ITV HD used to behave. Have you still got the fAllowDvbsMHEG registry fix applied? It is not needed for the full-time channel, and could interfere."

 

I went into the registry and turned off MHEG and now all is well - thanks a lot!

milli260876:

Isn't everything upscaled anyway that wasn't filmed in HD?

 so why would they "FLAG" it as HD as the whole channel is supposedly HD. (not a very convincing one mind!)

 

Basically to distinguish between those programmes that are true HD and those that are upscaled. Channel 4 used to put this information on its guide data as C4HD is a simulcast channel with upscaled SD content.

Note upscaled content will be better than SD broadcast (both because of better upscalers and lower compression artifacts) but you still cannot turn SD content into HD.

BBC HD on the other hand only transmits HD content (although part time)

Alban