Reproducible outages in EPG in part of DVB-T multiplex

[Poutnik]

Hello, I have recently switched from analog TV device to DVB-T one, as far analog TV is being turned off gradually in my country.
I have noticed at one of program multiplex, that 2 of multiplex programs have very big holes in EPG program list items.
These holes are totally reproducible, i.e if I delete EPG list and reload it, I got the exactly same result as before.
Software shows at signal level indicator full signal level, with no visible disturbances in signal quality.

Could it be caused by signal errors ? I ask because of I would guess signall errors as random phenomena should cause random EPG list outages.

I use Leadtek DTV DONGLE GOLD - USB2, with Winfast PVR2 software ( both SW and drivers as last versions ).
I live in big city with local DVB-T broadcasting. I use room active antenne with 35-40 dB gain.

[Guest]

Probably the software's EPG parser is broken. Try something else to parse it.

[Ghitulescu]

Are you sure it's YOUR problem and not related to the sender? You may ask your neighbours, friends if they experienced the same issue ...

The infancy of a technology is always problematic ...

[Poutnik]

I have tried ProgDVB 6.11.7.0, and even if I have not made it to fully run yet, it provides full EPG program list.

So, neuron2 is probably right about EPG parsing problems with Winfast PVR2.
Note that my native language ( czech ) can make parsing troubles by diacritics.....

[Ghitulescu]

I live in Germany and I do not use SW solutions to DVB-T but a Topfield. If I click EPG then the data fills the screen randomly, eg 20:15 Movie 1, 23:45 Movie 3, 22:30 Movie 2 - after completion I'll have them however in the correct order. So if the EPG parser is not capable of rearanging them in order (Movie 1, 2 3) then you'll have these gaps. I tested myself AltDVB, ProgDVB (and another one I don't remember its name) and had no problems, therefore I assumed it must be a problem with your sender.

[Poutnik]

I may was not clear enough.
My DVB-T device vendor SW - Winfast PVR2 by Leadtek is not parsing EPG correctly, but ProgDVB performs well.
So it seems it is sent OK, but winFast has problems with it.
Unfortunately, ProgDVB does not play TV well for me yet.

[Ghitulescu]

Try then alternative softwares (drivers) or buy yourself a PVR, I find the latter much convenient than DVB-T on PC.

Or ask LeadTek for updates, you're entitled to if you've legally bought the device.

[Poutnik]

Interesting point is, that the other Winfast user, living in the same place, has no problem with EPG for given channels....

so, it seems different possible reasons are likely to exclude each other....

Well, I am a fun of PC processing of TV programs.