Writing a Myservices file to get VOD channels

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I'm not a great Tutorial writer so bear with me on this. If anyone wants to copy this and touch it up - help yourself :)

VOD is sent to a specific part of the network when ordered by a user, with the D-box, you cannot order or control a VOD but you can view any that are sent to your part of the network. The easiest way is to make a "myservices.xml" file, you can use a tool like Bouquet Wizard but for this case we'll use a text editing tool like Ultraedit.

Firstly, we need to find the active transponders on the network, for this I load an enigma image and do a service scan, copy the service file to your PC then load your favourite image back onto the D-Box do another service scan and load that service file onto your PC.

Open the Enigma service file in Ultraedit and note the transponders with no (or very few) services on them, now open the Neutrino service file to use as a template. You will notice it starts something like this:-

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Change the first transponder name to the first empty transponder you found with the Enigma scan, eg change:

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The details will likely be different for you as we need the ID, Symbol rate and Frequency used by your network.

Next we add the code to add a channel to your file together with the channel ID used by VOD and give it a name:-

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Then repeat this for the other transponders with no (or few) services, giving each channel a unique name for easy identification later, using the same channel_service_id's for each transponder:-


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When you've finished you could have anywhere from 3 to 8 transponders of VOD channels detailed. Make sure the file ends properly using your neutrino scan as a template:-

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Then save this file as myservices.xml making sure the save as type is "all files (*.*)"

Copy this file over to your d-box and reload the channel lists, you should now find your Teleport channels listed in the Others or Andre bouquet. Now comes the bit where some patience is required. When you go through these channels most (if not all) will say "channel not available" you will only see anything when someone else has ordered a VOD, they are inactive at all other times! Don't expect to find anything immediately. The best time for finding VOD is Sunday Afternoon, but they could appear at any time and bear in mind that when you find anything it will usually be the free stuff rather than a PPV movie.

After a few weeks, you will get the idea of which channels are used and which aren't (in my area only 3 transponders are used), you can then go back into the myservices file and delete the spare entries.
 
Hi Lincsat,

basically have a quick read trough here: http://www.digitalworldz.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=121516

Set your Scanning Options to all not just TV & Radio

Delete all transponders out of your services.xml apart from BBC and then follow the above link.

You need to make sure that you kill the sectionsd and then restart it with sectionsd -d and have a nullmodem connected to capture the output

Sectionsd Scan needs to be turned on

You should see 2 files being created within /tmp

Get back with these ;-)
 
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