Twinhan Magicbox or Alpha do they work with MediaPortal? (1 Viewer)

[questuk]

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Hi,

I have checked on the approved list
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/dokuw/install/capturecards/start?do=show

Both show up as supported, but i beleive these are software based decoding, so put more strain on PC?

I have semperon 2200 cpu with 768Mb of ram. Is this powerful enough?

I was looking for a hardware based decoder and hopefully USB, but couldnt seem to find one? any suggestions welcome!


Regards


Gary

 

[onkl]

I'm not fully sure, but I understood the software/hardware decoder items was for analog only. Digital tuners recieve a MPEG stream of some sorts anyway, so no probs there.