New to MP a few questions for group (1 Viewer)

[toddbailey]

Does MP work in Win XP Pro 64?

What is up with ms-dvr, what's wrong with recording to mp3 format?

My hauppaug. MVP doesn't do ms-dvr very well, how hard to to change recording format to user selectable bit rates using formats like mpeg 3?

How solid is MP?

 

[samuel337]

Not sure about the Windoes XP 64-bit question, but I can answer the DVR-MS one. I assume by mp3 you mean MPEG2 or MPEG4 (mp3 is an audio format only).

DVR-MS is used because MP uses the MCE Stream Buffer Engine to do the timeshifting and recording. The team have been working on a new engine that will record to TS (and MPEG later), but in the mean time, it has been decided to stick with DVR-MS until MP is rock-solid before switching to the new engine.

IIRC, there is an option in MP to automatically convert recordings - not sure as I don't use that feature.

Sam

 

[bombonator]

If by solid you mean stable and doesn't crash then this is where MP has made great strides and has been the developer focus for a while now.

It is so rock-solid for me that we have 3 MediaPortal computers in our house to provide TV (and the rest that it can do like radio, music, dvd's etc!!!)... we have no Free-To-Air STB's or stereo's or standalone DVD players here... maybe that will tell you how much confidence i have in MP and how reliable it is.

I use Digital TV Cards for Free-to-Air and do have have one pay-tv STB that is shared throughout the house and inputted into hardware analogue cards for MP to use. pay-tv is shared to far-away areas of the house via wireless a/v senders/receivers. They have remote control extenders built-in to them also so i can change pay-tv channels from everywhere by using Smirnuff's great MyBlaster plugin for my MCE remotes.

All works great and basically anything is possible (my way is not the only way to set things up of course, i hope to stream my pay-tv over the network one day for example) and it keeps getting better with every release...