Looking to Switch (1 Viewer)

[Scaldari]

Hello, i am currently a Snapstream refugee and i am looking for something else. I have a full HTPC built and have been using thier product for better part of 2 years, but the lack of devopment on the BeyondMedia software has me disolutoned. See i see mine as a Media Server first,TV tuner second. I have been looking through your forums and i see some hope. My question is, before i start taring appart my exisitng setup is a. is the media support realy better then Beyond Media and b. if anyone see's any incompatibility between my hadware setup and this software. I am a computer fidgiter so i dont mind having to tweek and rig, as long as i end up with something better inthe end. system config below. Just trying to get an honest opinion as to weather this is what im looking for, or keep looking

Asus M2N32-SLIDeluxe AM2 3800+ DualCore
512x2 XMS2 Corsair,
NX8600 GT 256 MSI PCIe,
PureVideo Plat.
Seagate 80 Gig SATA2 x2 RAID 0 Operating,
Seagate 300gig SATA2 x2 RAID 0 Record,
<Gigabit LAN>
Seagate 300gig SATA2 X4 RAID 5 NAS Storage
Creative X-FI eXtreem Gamer,
Gigaworks 750 7.1 speekers;
nVidia PCI Dual Tuner and Pinacle USB 150 tuner; Generic USB external DVD drive and a Full Fledged Firefly. XP 32 Pro

 

[and-81]

If you look at what other people are running you will see that your setup is well within the requirements of MediaPortal.

You certainly wont need to rebuild anything and you should be able to install MediaPortal while your other software is still installed (but disabled). That way if MediaPortal is not to your liking you can also go back.

Hope that helps,

 

[Scaldari]

I know "In General" i have more then enough. I was more woried about specific hardware Idiosyncracies/Incompatibilities being a "home grown" application. I had read somewhere that i would have to completly remove my beyond media to use my firefly remote, glad to hear that is not the case, its highly customized and i dont even remember what all ive had to do to it. so just disable autoload and give it a go eh??
*Scaldari aproaches the unknown with trepidation*