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<blockquote data-quote="mcraenz" data-source="post: 183424" data-attributes="member: 54136">@Omen: No RF out and DVB-S are very different. DVB-S can only be connected to a dish. Also you cannot receive sky directly from the dish in to the DVB-S card. this is becuase the of the encryption sky uses can only be decoded using the sky digital STB. DVB-S can only be used to receive freeview. To get sky in to mediaportal you need to take the video output (preferably s-video) output from the sky STB and run that in to an analog card. (preferably a Hauppaug PVR-150). Your dvb-s card (what model?) may have an aux analog s-video input but it's probaly not that good because it will not do hardware (MPEG2) compression like that PRV-150 will. Once you have the sky stb connected to an analog video/audio input on your mediaprotal PC you need a way for mediaportal to change channels on the sky stb. This is where infra-red blaster comes in. They come with microsoft MCE remotes and also with some Hauppauge PVR-150 bundles.Hope this helps.&nbsp;@mruane: If I were you I'd delete the database, un-install and re-install TV3 and let it re-create the DB just to be sure everythign is as it should be. (maybe don't bother unless you have any issues??)Also update to the latest SVN(15972) there seem to be some important fixes for the heartbeat stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mcraenz, post: 183424, member: 54136"] @Omen: No RF out and DVB-S are very different. DVB-S can [B]only[/B] be connected to a dish. Also you cannot receive sky directly from the dish in to the DVB-S card. this is becuase the of the encryption sky uses can only be decoded using the sky digital STB. DVB-S can only be used to receive freeview. To get sky in to mediaportal you need to take the video output (preferably s-video) output from the sky STB and run that in to an analog card. (preferably a Hauppaug PVR-150). Your dvb-s card (what model?) may have an aux analog s-video input but it's probaly not that good because it will not do hardware (MPEG2) compression like that PRV-150 will. Once you have the sky stb connected to an analog video/audio input on your mediaprotal PC you need a way for mediaportal to change channels on the sky stb. This is where infra-red blaster comes in. They come with microsoft MCE remotes and also with some Hauppauge PVR-150 bundles. Hope this helps. @mruane: If I were you I'd delete the database, un-install and re-install TV3 and let it re-create the DB just to be sure everythign is as it should be. (maybe don't bother unless you have any issues??) Also update to the latest SVN(15972) there seem to be some important fixes for the heartbeat stuff. [/QUOTE]

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