Media Center 2005 Question

kbc · 14 Sep 2006 at 16:24

Hi,

I'm in the middle of building an HTPC and intend to use MCE to control everything. The connections will involve a PC, NTL Cable box and an Amplifier.

Within the HTPC - I will be using 2 capture cards, one dual analog capture card to capture NTL TV and standard Terrestrial and another DVB-T capture card for freeview.

Now if I was to use MCE, is it easy to configure it so that I can use both capture cards at the same time?

Chaos · 14 Sep 2006 at 16:43

I've never tried 2 capture cards but from what I've read its fairly simple, for more than 2 cards have a look here for some guides -

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/26/ShowForum.aspx

kbc · 14 Sep 2006 at 16:58

Chaos said:
I've never tried 2 capture cards but from what I've read its fairly simple, for more than 2 cards have a look here for some guides -

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/26/ShowForum.aspx

Excellent thanks Chaos! Will look into that!

Phil99 · 14 Sep 2006 at 17:17

I've got 2x DVB-T tuners in here and it works flawlessly with timeshifting, recording one channel while watching another, recording 2 channels etc. Very easy to setup, but I'm not sure how it would work with 2 different types of tuners.

Once you get it setup MCE really is a great front end, especially with the amount of community support with things like hacks/mods/plugins