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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 789274" data-attributes="member: 82144">Hi and welcome kameleon <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />First, sorry for the delayed response. :sorry:Yup, you can do that. Install PC2 as a single-seat or TV Server only depending on whether that PC will also be used as a client. PC1 and PC3 should be installed as client-only installations.Yes <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Not a problem - just share media folders on PC1 (your media PC and main MP client). PC3 and PC2 can connect to PC1 and access the shared media.You're using PVR-500's to receive analog cable channels. What happens is the PVR-500's have dedicated hardware for encoding the signal. Therefore, the PC that they are plugged into doesn't do any work on that front - it just receives the digitised streams from the PVR-500s. TV Server can pass those streams to any PC on your network with very little effort. Think of it like copying a file from one PC to another over the network - very little CPU used. The only CPU/GPU intensive process is the video *decoding*, and that happens on the computer that you view the video/TV on. Even your PC3 *should* be able to handle that for MPEG 2 (which the format that the PVR-500s will encode to). Viewing h.264 videos on PC3 *might* be a problem. You'd *definitely* want to use codecs that support hardware accelerated decoding so the power of the ION graphics is used, however that may not be enough in some cases. At least we can say that TV should work fine on PC3.mm</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 789274, member: 82144"] Hi and welcome kameleon :) First, sorry for the delayed response. :sorry: Yup, you can do that. Install PC2 as a single-seat or TV Server only depending on whether that PC will also be used as a client. PC1 and PC3 should be installed as client-only installations. Yes :) Not a problem - just share media folders on PC1 (your media PC and main MP client). PC3 and PC2 can connect to PC1 and access the shared media. You're using PVR-500's to receive analog cable channels. What happens is the PVR-500's have dedicated hardware for encoding the signal. Therefore, the PC that they are plugged into doesn't do any work on that front - it just receives the digitised streams from the PVR-500s. TV Server can pass those streams to any PC on your network with very little effort. Think of it like copying a file from one PC to another over the network - very little CPU used. The only CPU/GPU intensive process is the video *decoding*, and that happens on the computer that you view the video/TV on. Even your PC3 *should* be able to handle that for MPEG 2 (which the format that the PVR-500s will encode to). Viewing h.264 videos on PC3 *might* be a problem. You'd *definitely* want to use codecs that support hardware accelerated decoding so the power of the ION graphics is used, however that may not be enough in some cases. At least we can say that TV should work fine on PC3. mm [/QUOTE]

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