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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BioEgo" data-source="post: 1231915" data-attributes="member: 74791">Ok, took me a while but I did some tests with other programs and had a few curious results.- DVBViewer Terratec Edition: being an OEM version only detects the Cinergy tuner and not the PCTV. Tuning ok, live TV ok, recording seems ok but it always started live TV when recording so not meaningful. Uninstalled.- NextPVR: detects both tuners, but is unable to tune with Cinergy (probably due to the same reason that requires me to use the DVB-T provider in TVE3 instead of the Generic one with this tuner). Didn't feel like exploring it too much, uninstalled.- DVBLink: find and tunes with both cards. Live TV and recording is fine with both of them, no discontinuities reported in the diagnostics. Set service to manual, still installed. (not considering it an option though since it's not free and for the same amount of money I can buy another tuner to use with MP!)- MP2.1.1: unable to find the Cinergy DVB-T tuner, had to use the modified TVLibrary.dll. After that it finds and tunes with both cards. The Cinergy is working fine, no discontinuities in LiveTV/Timeshifting and even when recording alone. Unfortunately the PCTV has lots of discontinuities even in LiveTV/Timeshifting, both within MP and in manual control from SetupTV <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite12" alt="o_O" title="Er... what?    o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" /> [EDIT: see post #25, PCTV issue fixed by changing USB port]. Service set to manual start, still installed.After those tests I decided to revert to MP1.18 and check whether using an IPTV source for LiveTV/Timeshifting would help. The results left me a bit confused....If I start watching something using the IPTV source recording with the Cinergy works fine even when stopping the IPTV live show. Tried disabling the IPTV source and I was back to the usual situation, re-enabled the IPTV source, tried to start the IPTV live show and got an "Unknown error" instead, but still the Cinergy started recording fine regardless of LiveTV/Timeshifting status. Made a few more tests and I can confirm that regardless of the fact that the IPTV successfully connects to the live stream it fixes the issues with the Cinergy. If I do not try to start the IPTV channel the recording issues are back as usual.This led me to start thinking about the possibility to set up a workaround: I just need to make it so that every time I start recording with the Cinergy I also start timeshifting with the same card (similar to what manual control in SetupTV does) or try to connect to an IPTV stream (even failing). Do you think something like that is technically possible with a plugin or using some external program? Not asking you to do that, but if it can be done I'll start looking into that myself and see what I can get. It's a bit hacky but if it works....why not?<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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