Is my Hauppauge Dual T-500 card a hybrid? (1 Viewer)
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Hello Dans1982,
if you mean "Hauppauge NOVA-T 500", yes it's dual tuner, no it's not hybrid :
Hybrid means two different technologies (like f. instance DVB-T and Analog), but the NOVA-T 500 has 2 built-in DVB-T tuners, so you car record and view 2 different channels at the same time.
I hope it helps
if you mean "Hauppauge NOVA-T 500", yes it's dual tuner, no it's not hybrid :
Hybrid means two different technologies (like f. instance DVB-T and Analog), but the NOVA-T 500 has 2 built-in DVB-T tuners, so you car record and view 2 different channels at the same time.
I hope it helps
Dan
You need to first tune both cards, don't map one lot of channels from one card to the other, you will be there for what seems forever, then just delete scrambled\unused channels from the tv\radio channels tab.
You need to first tune both cards, don't map one lot of channels from one card to the other, you will be there for what seems forever, then just delete scrambled\unused channels from the tv\radio channels tab.
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I think I have good news for you: not only you can access two channels at a time (record both or watch one and record the other), but actually you can access two separate muxes at a time. So in theory, if you have 3 channels on one mux and another 5 channels on a second mux, you can record all 8 channels at the same time. I did this, and it works (not with so many channels but the same principle applies). It all comes down to the speed of the hdd/cpu you have. The channel you watch at the time might stutter. If that channel is also recorded, the recording will be just fine, with no stuttering.
or record two channels and watch a third, as long as the third channel is on the same mux with one of the first two channels... don't worry, MP will tell you if you try to record off more muxes than you can access. Just keep adding simultaneous recordings in tv guide and you will be amazed by the number of actual recordings the system accepts. If you get an error on one channel when setting a recording, go to the next one, just to see how many can you actually access at the same time... the error sounds like "no card available" or something like that...
what do you say about this? is it good news or not?
I think I have good news for you: not only you can access two channels at a time (record both or watch one and record the other), but actually you can access two separate muxes at a time. So in theory, if you have 3 channels on one mux and another 5 channels on a second mux, you can record all 8 channels at the same time. I did this, and it works (not with so many channels but the same principle applies). It all comes down to the speed of the hdd/cpu you have. The channel you watch at the time might stutter. If that channel is also recorded, the recording will be just fine, with no stuttering.
or record two channels and watch a third, as long as the third channel is on the same mux with one of the first two channels... don't worry, MP will tell you if you try to record off more muxes than you can access. Just keep adding simultaneous recordings in tv guide and you will be amazed by the number of actual recordings the system accepts. If you get an error on one channel when setting a recording, go to the next one, just to see how many can you actually access at the same time... the error sounds like "no card available" or something like that...
what do you say about this? is it good news or not?
If you tune both tuners, forget the word mapping.
, they do it themselves.If you tune one tuner, you then need to copy (map) all the channels from the first tuner to the second one by hand
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If you tune both tuners, forget the word mapping.
If you tune one tuner, you then need to copy (map) all the channels from the first tuner to the second one by hand
aha! Thanks once again for your superior knowledge. So just scan both cards for channels and job done!
aucklander - That is good news!