Overview

MediaPortal provides the ability to map EPG program genres to one of seven available MediaPortal genre names. The purpose of genre mapping is to limit the number of genres that users see in the TV guide so that programs may be colored by genre.  For example the EPG provider genres Action sports, Aerobics and Archery can all be mapped to the MediaPortal genre name Sports, then the Sports genre may be assigned a color for easy identification of Sports programs in the TV guide.

See TV Guide for more information.

As of 1.3.0 beta you may also control these settings via the new TV settings within MediaPortal. 

Configure Genre names

Genre names can only be configured with TV-Server configuration tool:

Configure Genre Colors

Genre colors can only be configured with the MediaPortal configuration tool. 

Additional Information and References