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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 690863" data-attributes="member: 82144">Hi TobbisThe &quot;MediaPortal Server&quot; is only a TV Server. It enables you to share the TV card in the HTPC in the lower living room with the HTPC in the upper living room. The video and audio is not decoded on the server. The way it works is that the TV signals are demodulated by the tuner and then the resulting transport stream (containing h.264/mpeg 2 video, AC3/AAC audio etc.) is passed (either through streaming or timeshift files) to the client/s. The clients then have to decode the transport stream. Hopefully that makes sense...When it comes to movies and music it is much the same except that the TV Server is not involved at all. The client can connect to shares and shared folders on other computers on your network. Each client must be able to decode the video and/or audio on the client. Of course the files can be hosted on the same computer as the TV Server (in this case, the HTPC downstairs). The client upstairs would connect to the TV Server on the HTPC downstairs to get TV, and the shares and/or shared folders to get movies and music.So the short answer is you need a decent video card and/or CPU on each client.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 690863, member: 82144"] Hi Tobbis The "MediaPortal Server" is only a TV Server. It enables you to share the TV card in the HTPC in the lower living room with the HTPC in the upper living room. The video and audio is [B]not[/B] decoded on the server. The way it works is that the TV signals are demodulated by the tuner and then the resulting transport stream (containing h.264/mpeg 2 video, AC3/AAC audio etc.) is passed (either through streaming or timeshift files) to the client/s. The clients then have to decode the transport stream. Hopefully that makes sense... When it comes to movies and music it is much the same except that the TV Server is [B]not[/B] involved at all. The client can connect to shares and shared folders on other computers on your network. Each client must be able to decode the video and/or audio [B]on the client[/B]. Of course the files can be hosted on the same computer as the TV Server (in this case, the HTPC downstairs). The client upstairs would connect to the TV Server on the HTPC downstairs to get TV, and the shares and/or shared folders to get movies and music. [B]So the short answer is you need a decent video card and/or CPU on each client.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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