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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 707613" data-attributes="member: 82144">Hi and welcome Impuls <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />What do you mean by "HD"?- h.264 (MPEG 4 AVC) video- DVB-S2 signalsMost current consumer DVB-S2 tuners support simple DVB-S2 modulation modes (8 PSK). That should be fine for the DVB-S2 channels that you would want to watch. Support for h.264 depends on the software *not* the tuner. MediaPortal supports h.264 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />You can record/watch as many channels as you like with one tuner as long as they are on the same transponder. Each extra tuner allows you to record/watch all the channels from an additional transponder. For example:Transponder A------------------ ch 1- ch 2- ch 3Transponder B------------------ ch 4- ch 5- ch 6With MediaPortal and one tuner you can watch/record all channels on Transponder A or Transponder B, but you can't watch/record ch 1 at the same time as ch 5. For that you need two tuners. With two tuners you could watch record all channels on Transponder A and Transponder B at the same time if you wanted.I can't really comment about that specific provider. You should search the forums since there appear to be some comments...Digital tuners (DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-T, DVB-T2, DVB-C) don't have encoders on board. The stream is already encoded by the broadcaster. Your tuner takes the stream from the dish/cable/aerial and passes it to software like MediaPortal so that video and audio can be decoded. Only analog signals require encoding, but that doesn't seem to be what you want...MediaPortal supports MPEG 2, AAC, LATM-AAC (also called HE-AAC), AC3 (also called Dolby Digital) and Dolby Digital Plus, but you need to have codecs that can decode these formats. Many codecs are available for MPEG 2. There are free codecs for AAC, LATM-AAC and AC3. I'm not so sure about Dolby Digital Plus...Regarding DTS: I think this is supported with AC3, but I'm not 100% sure.DTS MA and Dolby TruHD are *not* supported yet.As mentioned above, the codecs are the most important things because they decode the audio. The soundcard (render) receives the audio after the codecs. If you want to pass the signal to a receiver then you can choose to use a renderer that passes the audio to SPDIF (optical) or HDMI. Most modern ATI and NVidia cards provide an onboard soundcard so that audio and video from your computer can be passed through HDMI to external receivers and TVs...No you are not too soon - MediaPortal is ready for you. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Like I said earlier, a second card can allow you to record or watch all the channels from two *transponders* - you are not limited to two channels.It seems like you want a video card that can output HDMI to your receiver. The receiver will decode the audio and pass the video to the TV/projector.Unfortunately MediaPortal does not support Bluray. The problem is the copy-protection. Bluray certification is expensive and would require us to go "closed source". We don't intend to do that, but support for non-copy protected Bluray might be added in the future.I hope that helps <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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