Sunday 14 September 2008

Missing Guide Listings - Windows Media Centre

I have had the problem for a while that some channel's guide listings in my Vista Media Centre application where not showing up. In their space was just a message saying "No data available." I have found two possible reasons for this and the solutions are the same.

Firstly the lack of listings may be due to regional differences in the channels schedule. Sometimes media centre will pick these up automatically, like mine did with BBC1, and sometimes it will not, like my ITV1. The other reason may simply be that media centre has lost the listings association with the relevant channel.

To solve the problem, in Media Centre go to: Home > Tasks > Settings > TV > Guide > Add Listings to Channel
Now select the channel you are missing listings for and look through the list that is displayed. You may find a regional variation of the channel eg. 'ITV1 West of England' and if you do, this is probably the culprit. If you can't find a regional listing just select the normal channel name. This should re-establish the association between the channel and the listing.

I have had missing listings for both of these reasons and using the method above now have a full guide, no more manual scheduling of recordings for me!

If this doesn't solve your problem make sure you selected the correct transmitter when setting up the guide. You can do this again by selecting 'Set Up Guide Listings' from the guide menu as before.

Hope this helps.

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