Media Centre Software... multiple dual tuner cards

Conanius

Conanius

Conanius

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All,

bit of a random question...

I'm looking at building my first HTPC and I ideally wanted to put 2 dual tuner freeview cards in (so that I can potentially record 3 channels and watch 1 other)

Has anyone done this, and if so, using what software/OS ....

Would appreciate also knowing which cards you used, or, if a quad tuner card exists !

many thanks
 
OzyOly said:
MCE05 can't do this without reg hacks. Vista can I believe. What dual tuners were you wanting to buy?
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I havnt fully specced up the system yet, but basically i'll buy whichever cards will work... Vista Home Premium is the OS id need right?
 
Becca said:
I havnt fully specced up the system yet, but basically i'll buy whichever cards will work... Vista Home Premium is the OS id need right?
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whoops, used the wrong account again :mad:

as for media portal, I have that on this PC now, looks pretty good to use... and being free helps ! however I have been quite happy using windows media centre on a mates HTPC, so if vista can do it... id probably go for that
 
Conanius said:
whoops, used the wrong account again :mad:

as for media portal, I have that on this PC now, looks pretty good to use... and being free helps ! however I have been quite happy using windows media centre on a mates HTPC, so if vista can do it... id probably go for that
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Media Portal works fine on Vista, I have it on my gaming rig (Vista OS), and on my HTPC downstairs (XP). I have it on Vista upstairs, coz I need to have it installed for the TV server to work (stream TV up to my room).
 
sup3rc0w said:
Media Portal works fine on Vista, I have it on my gaming rig (Vista OS), and on my HTPC downstairs (XP). I have it on Vista upstairs, coz I need to have it installed for the TV server to work (stream TV up to my room).
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would you mind to listing down all of your hardware and all software/codec installed

no matter what i do i cannot get any video running smooth in media portal, but perfectly on MCE, even on same machine

thanks
 
wesley said:
would you mind to listing down all of your hardware and all software/codec installed

no matter what i do i cannot get any video running smooth in media portal, but perfectly on MCE, even on same machine

thanks
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sure will do, off to sleep right now though, will do tomorrow for ya mate.
one thing I can say though, is that I do NOT install any codec packs, I only installed a few codecs, and it's all i needed. My MP plays everything I can throw at it, even finally got Daemon Tools to auto mount a image and play it... took me ages to get it right :p
 
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