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<blockquote data-quote="mike_b" data-source="post: 768031" data-attributes="member: 114444">Hi,I'm a SageTV refugee looking to try different HTPC software. My goals are simple, I want to record over-the-air TV shows and automatically skip commercials during playback. It looks like MediaPortal is a nice interface to record TV shows and I see that there is a Comskip plugin to skip commercials.I will be installing MediaPortal on a spare Windows XP SP3 computer with an AMD X2 dual core 2.6 GHz processor with 2GB of memory. I ordered an HVR-1250 TV Tuner card that will be here in a few days to use in this test system. I was reading the <a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/11_Preparing_Your_System/XP_User_Guide" target="_blank">XP Setup Guide</a>. I am a little confused about the codec section. Do I need to install a codec to play recorded TV shows? If so, which one?For guide data it looks like <a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/14_Using_MediaPortal/3_TV/0_TV_Guide/0_EPG/3_WebEPG" target="_blank">WebEPG</a> is the best solution for U.S. guide data. Is this a good source for 14 days of U.S. guide data?Also, thank you for the great documentation in the wiki. It is the best I've seen for HTPC software!Thank you,Mike</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mike_b, post: 768031, member: 114444"] Hi, I'm a SageTV refugee looking to try different HTPC software. My goals are simple, I want to record over-the-air TV shows and automatically skip commercials during playback. It looks like MediaPortal is a nice interface to record TV shows and I see that there is a Comskip plugin to skip commercials. I will be installing MediaPortal on a spare Windows XP SP3 computer with an AMD X2 dual core 2.6 GHz processor with 2GB of memory. I ordered an HVR-1250 TV Tuner card that will be here in a few days to use in this test system. I was reading the [URL="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/11_Preparing_Your_System/XP_User_Guide"]XP Setup Guide[/URL]. I am a little confused about the codec section. Do I need to install a codec to play recorded TV shows? If so, which one? For guide data it looks like [URL="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/14_Using_MediaPortal/3_TV/0_TV_Guide/0_EPG/3_WebEPG"]WebEPG[/URL] is the best solution for U.S. guide data. Is this a good source for 14 days of U.S. guide data? Also, thank you for the great documentation in the wiki. It is the best I've seen for HTPC software! Thank you, Mike [/QUOTE]

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