New to Mediaportal and need advice (1 Viewer)

[newbie67]

Hello ,

I am new to Mediaportal and was wondering how about doing what i would like to do !!

Okay

I have a (Angel Dual TV Tuner) pci card and have installed it with all its latest drivers and software / in my device manager it is named (Angel Mpeg Device)

Here is a link to it ( Angel PCI at Lumanate )

Now I am running Windows XP Home ED SP3 compleatly updated

I have installed Mediaportal

I have installed everything that it recommended and did the patch upgrades also

Now my question :

Is their a way that I can hook my cable tv to this card and use Mediaportal to watch cable tv on my computer ?

What else would I need ?

Now here is the specs of my computer :

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States) No details available
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.73 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2N-SLI 1.XX
Bus Clock: 210 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS M2N SLI ACPI BIOS Revision 1002 05/22/2009
Drives Memory Modules c,d
160.01 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
136.65 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

ATAPI iHAS220 6 [CD-ROM drive]
TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-H653A [CD-ROM drive]

Generic- Compact Flash USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
Generic- MS/MS-Pro USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 5
Generic- SD/MMC USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
Generic- SM/xD-Picture USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
ST380815AS [Hard drive] (80.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 9QZBLG3N, rev 4.AAB, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD800JD-75JNA0 [Hard drive] (80.00 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 2020202057202D444D574D413439323435313137 2048 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM_A1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM_B1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM_A2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM_B2' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 80.02 GB 71.96 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 1) 5.24 GB 3.05 GB free
g: (NTFS on drive 1) 35.65 GB 34.12 GB free
h: (NTFS on drive 1) 39.10 GB 27.52 GB free

Controllers Display
NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller (2x)
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS [Display adapter]
Default Monitor
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller Angel MPEG Device (2x)
C-Media CM6501 Like Sound Device
Virus Protection [Back to Top] new Group Policies
AVG Anti-Virus Free Version 9.0
Virus Definitions Version Up To Date
Realtime File Scanning On

Communications Other Devices

NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet #2


Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator
USB Composite Device
USB Mass Storage Device
USB Root Hub (2x)

I also have a 600 wat psu

Any help with this would be welcomed

Thanks for any advice

Newbie67

 

[x4mer]

The website for that card seems ambiguous. It doesn't list onboard mpeg encoder in the specs, but lists the card description as mpeg. Maybe it relies on a software encoder.

Run the TV Server config, & see if the tuner is listed. If it is, run a channel scan. If it isn't, the card isn't supported.

You shouldn't need anything else, if it's a supported card.

Check the manual tab at the top for further instructions if you need them.

 

[newbie67]

Hello & Thank You for the reply ,


Okay , I ran the Tv Server Config Tool

It has 2 in it

One is the (Microsoft SQL Server) and the other is (My SQL Server 5) Both are asking for a password and neither will let me do a channel search !!

Okay you have to remember please that this is my first attempt to do this and I have never attempted this type od programing or software befor , I am just doing it because I had to take my TV to my mothers for hers died , I have a 32 inch Tv for my monitor and this is why I would like to do this , just make my computer system do everything multimedia or at least try to see if it will ? It should ?

I am going to look at the instructions for Mediaportal and see what it says !!

I even hooked the Cable Tv coaxil up to the card and nothing / nadda / zip !! My luck

When Installing the card I wasn't ask to input a password / But I do have a password on my user account ?

If you have any other Ideas please let me know!!

I am thinking of just buying another TV card .

Any good ideas on a good one to use ?

Also would it be easier if I put Windows Vista Ultimate on my system / I do have it just sitting here on disk . That would also mean having to add more ram to my system and most likely hold me back fron getting a new TV card to which is the one of the reason I havent put Vista on my system yet / but then I guess I could take a chance for a card at Ebay, but then I am not a fan of windows Media Center .... Main reason I am putting Mediaportal on my Xp system !!

Wow I am a Rambler / lol / just the way I get when it concerns my system and with typing my thoughts are going right in this post / lol

Newbie67

 

[x4mer]

The TVServer needs to connect to the SQL server that was setup during installation of MP. During install did you install MySQL, or MSSQL?

Depending on which one you installed, the login is different.

If it's MySQL, the user name should be root, & the password would be MediaPortal.

 

[kiwijunglist]

XP works well with mediaportal, no need to upgrade.