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Originally Posted by Callifo By the looks of it you wont be able to use the MyTV module at all because without a tv card you cant set the recording directory (logically thats correct). Ive looked through my various configuration files and non list a default recording's directory. MP will import metadata from the recorded tv directory but without it thinking theres a card in there I cant see a way to do it. |
With MCE to enable and configure the TV module you need to temporarily install a tuner card, set everything up, and then remove the tuner card (if desired). At that point everything works except if you attempt to watch Live TV an innocent tuner missing error message pops up. Watching Recorded TV works fine and a remote folder can be added to the list of watched folders. Will something like this work with Media Portal?
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Originally Posted by Callifo As far as I can tell thats about as good as it gets unless you want to use the movie database. The folder view of myvideos will allow passwords and such, but Im not sure if thats carried over to the movie database. |
Does the movie database download information based on the file or folder name? This is how the MCE "My Movies" works, but it wouldn't work well for Recorded TV (too much work creating folders and moving dvrms files). Is this similar to Media Portal?
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Originally Posted by Callifo Ill just take a guess and say no the video card probably wont work because its ancient. I dont think it would even have any directx acceleration at all so you will need a DX9 video card. Not sure how how a 600mhz would take playing back high birate mpeg2s either. |
I guess that's the question. Does Media Portal force you to use VMR9 and a fully DX9 compliant video card? MCE does require this and the best solution (IMO) for MCE is an nvidia 5500 pci card for systems without AGP slots. If it has an AGP slot or PCI-E a 6200, 6600 or 6800 is a better option (my daughters PC doesn't have AGP so a PCI 5500 is the solution). BTW, the built in video does show it supports everything when running dxdiag.exe (I'm not sure why. I haven't looked at this closely though). DX9c is installed.