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So i have been looking to get premium HD into media portal for a long time without much luck. Does anyone know of any tuners that can take a cable card to decode the premium HD that work with media portal? I know there are others out there but i have read info that they only support programs like windows media center.
Tuners that use cable cards and support Media Portal? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter JustusIV
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I think your best bet for getting premium HD recording is the Hauppauge HD-PVR... it takes the component out of a settop box along with dolby digital sound (5.1) and creates a h.264 file.
Cable card sounds nice in principal, but is almost definitely not going to work in a DIY-type setup...
Cheers.
Geoff
Cable card sounds nice in principal, but is almost definitely not going to work in a DIY-type setup...
Cheers.
Geoff
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I guess my whole point it to bypass the set top box.
Like the ceton card can do with Windows Media Center. I just dont understand why HD is any different then any other tv tuner. Mediaportal can use for example Hauppauge tuners. What prevents mediaportal from using the ceton card.
Like the ceton card can do with Windows Media Center. I just dont understand why HD is any different then any other tv tuner. Mediaportal can use for example Hauppauge tuners. What prevents mediaportal from using the ceton card.
Ya, I hear ya... I would love to have a STB-less solution too.
I'm not familiar with ceton cards... sorry.
I'm not familiar with ceton cards... sorry.
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While i havent actually used a ceton card i mean it appears to be a full replacement of the set top box if you use it with WMC, however i use media portal for to much and am just looking for any solution to record HD TV within media portal. Maybe i will have to make it so i use both WMC and media portal :/