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<blockquote data-quote="mattjcurry" data-source="post: 1010702" data-attributes="member: 116338">This is mostly about improving MediaPortal usability. If we want to improve usability for US users, then a lot of them will have Hybrid cards. However most people do not even know if they have a hybrid card or not. I know when I setup mediaportal, I had no idea if I had a hybrid card. It took me quite a while to figure it out.&nbsp;Here are the device paths from my system:[ATTACH=full]132580[/ATTACH]&nbsp;[ATTACH]132581[/ATTACH][ATTACH]132582[/ATTACH]I have another tuner on the same card and the device path is the same all the way up to the last digit for tuners of the same type.&nbsp;I am not sure how you would know which of the two tuners were on the same port and which two were not.&nbsp;Also, I was not suggesting that we throw an error that is visible to the user, but that we just trap exceptions during channel scanning and see if we can use that information to determine if there are any hybrid cards.&nbsp; It would only happen once during setup, and then we could remember the settings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mattjcurry, post: 1010702, member: 116338"] This is mostly about improving MediaPortal usability. If we want to improve usability for US users, then a lot of them will have Hybrid cards. However most people do not even know if they have a hybrid card or not. I know when I setup mediaportal, I had no idea if I had a hybrid card. It took me quite a while to figure it out. Here are the device paths from my system: [ATTACH=full]132580[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]132581[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]132582[/ATTACH] I have another tuner on the same card and the device path is the same all the way up to the last digit for tuners of the same type. I am not sure how you would know which of the two tuners were on the same port and which two were not. Also, I was not suggesting that we throw an error that is visible to the user, but that we just trap exceptions during channel scanning and see if we can use that information to determine if there are any hybrid cards. It would only happen once during setup, and then we could remember the settings. [/QUOTE]

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