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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1227161" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.If you only like to test MP2 with Movies/Series/Music/Images then you can install the MP2 Server on the client machine (w/o TV tuners) easily. MP2 server did not relay on any TV tuners available. This did not interfere with the existing MP1 installation in any way. You only need to be sure, your Media can be accessed by the MP2 server system (network shares). Then you can test MP2 with all features excerpt for TV. The only scenario where MP1 and MP2 are interfering is if you install the MP2 server on the same physical machine as the MP 1 TV Server. As MP2 server always include the TV Engine Plugin the installation fails, if the tuners are used and blocked by another program (like MP1 TV Server). For this you need to stop the MP1 TV server before you install MP2. As soon as the MP2 installation is done you can remove the TV engine plugin (on MP2 everything is a plugin) and then start the MP1 TV server again. If you later want to test the TV features of MP2 you can disable the MP1 TV server and copy the TV engine plugin back into place. With this done the TV support in MP2 server is back again... You even can export the MP1 TV settings and re- import them into MP2 TV so you even did not need to do a channel scan or any other configuration...In a later version the installer will allow to de- select the TV engine plugin during installation, but this is not jet done...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1227161, member: 109222"] Hi. If you only like to test MP2 with Movies/Series/Music/Images then you can install the MP2 Server on the client machine (w/o TV tuners) easily. MP2 server did not relay on any TV tuners available. This did not interfere with the existing MP1 installation in any way. You only need to be sure, your Media can be accessed by the MP2 server system (network shares). Then you can test MP2 with all features excerpt for TV. The only scenario where MP1 and MP2 are interfering is if you install the MP2 server on the same physical machine as the MP 1 TV Server. As MP2 server always include the TV Engine Plugin the installation fails, if the tuners are used and blocked by another program (like MP1 TV Server). For this you need to stop the MP1 TV server before you install MP2. As soon as the MP2 installation is done you can remove the TV engine plugin (on MP2 everything is a plugin) and then start the MP1 TV server again. If you later want to test the TV features of MP2 you can disable the MP1 TV server and copy the TV engine plugin back into place. With this done the TV support in MP2 server is back again... You even can export the MP1 TV settings and re- import them into MP2 TV so you even did not need to do a channel scan or any other configuration... In a later version the installer will allow to de- select the TV engine plugin during installation, but this is not jet done... [/QUOTE]

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