MediaPortal Version: 1.0.2
Okay, I just had my cable company ram an external set top box down my throat as part of the USA converting to all digital cable. I was given the choice of "free" STB or no more cable. OTA sucks here, so this is it. I tried to hook the cable straight to my analog card and got nothing but scrambled channels. I also tried and ATSC tuner and got 2 channels advertising HDTV so no dice there, either.
How in the heck do you use MediaPortal with and external box? I have read all of the forums posts and wiki sections I could search for and the only answer I have found so far is "it doesn't work, it's next to impossible, you can't turn off the buffer so the remote doesn't work right, the EPG will have to be done by hand (for 200 channels!!! NO FARKING WAY!), etc, etc."
I have been running an HTPC since the very early days of myHTPC and Meedio (so many years ago) and I don't see any way to keep doing it. If anyone out there knows how to do two things I will be eternally grateful:
1. How the heck do I switch to live television with no buffer? Since the cable box runs everything and has dozens of menus, the delays in button clicks is maddening (the wife threw the remote at the TV and broke it (the remote, not the TV)... it is very frustrating). This is the deal breaker. I have to be able to do this to keep using the software.
2. How do you set up the EPG in MediaPortal without wanting to kill yourself? I have over 200 channels (most are sports package stuff) and setting them all to channel 3 by hand is NOT gonna happen. I need a tool to put the channels right. This is not as important. I have video on demand, so I don't really care about recording anything or pausing anymore.
Okay, I just had my cable company ram an external set top box down my throat as part of the USA converting to all digital cable. I was given the choice of "free" STB or no more cable. OTA sucks here, so this is it. I tried to hook the cable straight to my analog card and got nothing but scrambled channels. I also tried and ATSC tuner and got 2 channels advertising HDTV so no dice there, either.
How in the heck do you use MediaPortal with and external box? I have read all of the forums posts and wiki sections I could search for and the only answer I have found so far is "it doesn't work, it's next to impossible, you can't turn off the buffer so the remote doesn't work right, the EPG will have to be done by hand (for 200 channels!!! NO FARKING WAY!), etc, etc."
I have been running an HTPC since the very early days of myHTPC and Meedio (so many years ago) and I don't see any way to keep doing it. If anyone out there knows how to do two things I will be eternally grateful:
1. How the heck do I switch to live television with no buffer? Since the cable box runs everything and has dozens of menus, the delays in button clicks is maddening (the wife threw the remote at the TV and broke it (the remote, not the TV)... it is very frustrating). This is the deal breaker. I have to be able to do this to keep using the software.
2. How do you set up the EPG in MediaPortal without wanting to kill yourself? I have over 200 channels (most are sports package stuff) and setting them all to channel 3 by hand is NOT gonna happen. I need a tool to put the channels right. This is not as important. I have video on demand, so I don't really care about recording anything or pausing anymore.