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[tzr916]

Any way to change the number of rows/columns? Like 8 channels & 3 hours worth?

Is it possible to bring up the guide overlay while playing live tv or recorded show? keyboard shortcut for that?

[imugli]

Any way to change the number of rows/columns? Like 8 channels & 3 hours worth?

I believe this is dependent on your screen size. What screen size are you running on? I run on 1920 * 1080 and I get 6 or 7 channels and a good 3 hours listings.

Is it possible to bring up the guide overlay while playing live tv or recorded show? keyboard shortcut for that?

Not an overlay, but if you're using a standard WMC remote you can press the guide button and it will take you to the TV guide. If you set Tools > Options > Theater View > Pause video playback when entering theater view to Off, you'll still see what's showing in the bottom right corner.

[CountryBumkin]

Like imugli said, if you go to Tools>Options>Theater View>Appearance>Size you can reduce the guide size to see more channels and time slots. Adjust according to your display size and eyesight.

On my laptop (1440 x 900), I set the Theater View size to 75% and I get 13 channel rows and 3 hours of scheduling. On my big 64" TV (1080) I set the size to 125%. It's all personal preference.

[tzr916]

Testing on laptop. Screen resolution is 1920x1080.

Theater View SIZE was the key. Defaulted to 125%, changed to 75% and all is good!

No remote with laptop so cannot try guide button. WMC keyboard shortcut is CTL-G, but does not appear to do anything in MC.

[imugli]

According to this

http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Keyboard_Hot-keys

There's no keyboard shortcut to TV Guide.

Post a request, you can't be the only one for whom this would be useful :-)

[tzr916]

It's ok for testing...

Any way to highlight or mark NEW tv show episodes in the guide displayed in Theater View?

[imugli]

Not currently, no. But again, a great idea.

You can currently set up a theater view item to search for things, but I'm not sure what you'd be looking for and it would display in a list, not a grid like the guide.

[RoderickGI]

There's no keyboard shortcut to TV Guide.

However you can create one, which may be helpful in your testing.

• First pick a keyboard shortcut that is not in use yet from the list of built in keyboard shortcuts.

           Ctrl+G (for Guide) and Ctrl+E (for EPG) are in use, so perhaps Ctrl+Shift+G?

• Create a User Defined Global Custom Keyboard Shortcut.

           This step requires a little work, but it isn't too bad.

• Assign the command "MC21.exe /MCC 22001,9" from the Media Center Core Commands list.

Done.

[tzr916]

However you can create one, which may be helpful in your testing.

• First pick a keyboard shortcut that is not in use yet from the list of built in keyboard shortcuts.

           Ctrl+G (for Guide) and Ctrl+E (for EPG) are in use, so perhaps Ctrl+Shift+G?

• Create a User Defined Global Custom Keyboard Shortcut.

           This step requires a little work, but it isn't too bad.

• Assign the command "MC21.exe /MCC 22001,9" from the Media Center Core Commands list.

Done.

I've got as far as downloading the resource.xml, opening it in editor. But from there it's over my head. Just guessing I need to add a line somewhere in that file like:

<Entry Key="Ctrl;Shift;g" Command="22001" Param="9" Global="1" />

Don't know if that is close or not?
Don't know where in the file I need to add the line?
Don't know if I leave all the other stuff in that file alone or delete it out?

The wiki and "example xml" just doesn't explain things.

[RoderickGI]

The documentation isn't that good, I know. It has been quite a while since I looked at it, and I'm not an expert on that bit. I knew that would be the hardest bit! 

Anyway, search the forum for threads that have discussed modifying the resource.xml file. There have been a few, and some were quite informative. It may take a bit of searching to find them though. Sorry I can't help more just at the moment.