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<blockquote data-quote="Sergei" data-source="post: 20566" data-attributes="member: 14597"><p>Well, I have two cards with separate tuners, both DVB but one for sattelite and none for cable. </p><p></p><p>If a computer is ment to place it near the TV then it has to be very silent and ended up with mobile technology and a processor that would have to run at top speed if it had to decode a mpeg stream. So these cards have a dedicated hardware mpeg decoder, simply to avoid that the cpu has to work too much. </p><p></p><p>HDTV software decoding asks for at least an P4-3Ghz so I wonder how they can make a silent mediabox ...so the best way is to use an on-board mpeg decoder in case of didigtal reception.</p><p></p><p>But: I've tested Mediaportel...very impressive program.. but no way to get these two cards at work , there's no mechanism in mediaportal that supports the dual channel lists and links each list with a specific capture card. Well, not with the card drivers.</p><p>Mediaplayer can show each card seperatly, so config mediaplayer for one card, and it plays/record fine. To use the other one, re-run config, autodetect the channels again and yeap, it works perfectly.</p><p>All these onboard decoder cards support no bda driver so bad luck.</p><p></p><p>Now, running config each time is not very user friendly.</p><p>I've posted the same question on the medialportal forum... perhaps the wrong place..hardware would be a better place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sergei, post: 20566, member: 14597"] Well, I have two cards with separate tuners, both DVB but one for sattelite and none for cable. If a computer is ment to place it near the TV then it has to be very silent and ended up with mobile technology and a processor that would have to run at top speed if it had to decode a mpeg stream. So these cards have a dedicated hardware mpeg decoder, simply to avoid that the cpu has to work too much. HDTV software decoding asks for at least an P4-3Ghz so I wonder how they can make a silent mediabox ...so the best way is to use an on-board mpeg decoder in case of didigtal reception. But: I've tested Mediaportel...very impressive program.. but no way to get these two cards at work , there's no mechanism in mediaportal that supports the dual channel lists and links each list with a specific capture card. Well, not with the card drivers. Mediaplayer can show each card seperatly, so config mediaplayer for one card, and it plays/record fine. To use the other one, re-run config, autodetect the channels again and yeap, it works perfectly. All these onboard decoder cards support no bda driver so bad luck. Now, running config each time is not very user friendly. I've posted the same question on the medialportal forum... perhaps the wrong place..hardware would be a better place. [/QUOTE]
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