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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 774709" data-attributes="member: 82144">You are correct - the Colossus and HDPVR are the only capture devices that we support at present. I guess I should learn to refer to that list as a device list in the future. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />I'm told that Hauppauge have released a plugin to allow the Colossus to be used in Windows Media Center. It may be installed by default with the latest drivers...There are bits and pieces of information scattered throughout our wiki that describe how things work. In short, TV Server is responsible for all TV functions in MP. There are a few components in the MP-TV Server system, the most important of which are:1. TsWriter and MPFileWriter - receive the data streams from tuners and capture devices. These components enable channel scanning, EPG grabbing, timeshifting and recording. Primarily they receive bunches of channels and copy the stream from the channels that you want to watch or record into TS files on your hard drive.2. TV library - knows how to control tuners and capture devices. In particular it knows how to tell them to tune to specific channels. This component controls TsWriter and MPFileWriter as required.3. TV engine/scheduler - the core of TV Server. It controls the TV library and is responsible for high level management like ensuring recordings happen when you schedule them to occur, starting timeshifting (choosing a tuner, telling TV library to tell the tuner to tune etc.) when you want to watch TV, scheduling EPG grabbing.3. TV plugin - the TV and radio screens in MediaPortal itself, including the TV and radio home and EPG screens.4. TsReader - reads the files created by TsWriter and MPFileWriter and splits them into audio, video and subtitle streams that can in turn be actually decoded by codecs that understand the audio, video and subtitle formats.5. Codecs (3rd party software) - these are specific bits of software that know how to decode particular media formats, for example MP3, MPEG, Dolby Digital, or h.264.6. MediaPortal - controls TsReader, connecting the appropriate codecs between TsReader and renderers (which are basically the drivers for your video card and sound card).That is probably as simple as I can make it. TV Server itself is always running in the background so you don't have to have MP running when you want recordings to take place - TV Server can handle them without you even knowing that they are happening. Communication between the TV plugin in MediaPortal and the other parts of the TV Server (in particular the TV engine) allows TV Server and MediaPortal to be installed on separate computers. Multiple computers can have MediaPortal installed on them and receive TV from a single TV Server. This is what we refer to when we talk about multi-seat and single seat installations - <a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/15_Customization/TV-Server/1_How_it_Works" target="_blank">wiki info</a>.mm</blockquote>

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