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<blockquote data-quote="finrudd341" data-source="post: 648656" data-attributes="member: 68408">Should work fine - you need to have MP installed on the laptop, and have the laptop running on the same network as the main machine with the TV Server application running on. But once you tell the 'client' (laptop) where to find the 'server' (main HTPC) it should start to stream the tv. What I don't yet know is what happens if you both want to watch the same channel, or indeed what happens if you both want to watch different channels mapped to the same card - post back and let me know how you get on! Tele here is mostly so rubbish it has not yet been a problem between the wife and I!!I just saw this post here: <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/tv-server-plugins-294/mediaportal-tvviewer-0-3-watch-tv-your-desktop-2010-01-30-a-76570/" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/tv-server-plugins-294/mediaportal-tvviewer-0-3-watch-tv-your-desktop-2010-01-30-a-76570/</a> which could be exactly what you want?Looks like you answered my question then! So, if you have 4 clients, and all want to watch 4 different channels, all on Digital TV (for example) you would either need 4 x TV cards, or 2 x Dual TV cards? How about if all 4 wanted to watch the same channel? I have not done enough testing on this but am curious about this - I assume this means that a really large TV server, with perhaps 5 slots in it, could stream up to 10 channels, if each tuner card was a dual card?EDIT: Well, did some testing, and had my first Blue Screen Of Death on the client PC - I had forgotten those things exist! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="finrudd341, post: 648656, member: 68408"] Should work fine - you need to have MP installed on the laptop, and have the laptop running on the same network as the main machine with the TV Server application running on. But once you tell the 'client' (laptop) where to find the 'server' (main HTPC) it should start to stream the tv. What I don't yet know is what happens if you both want to watch the same channel, or indeed what happens if you both want to watch different channels mapped to the same card - post back and let me know how you get on! Tele here is mostly so rubbish it has not yet been a problem between the wife and I!! I just saw this post here: [url]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/tv-server-plugins-294/mediaportal-tvviewer-0-3-watch-tv-your-desktop-2010-01-30-a-76570/[/url] which could be exactly what you want? Looks like you answered my question then! So, if you have 4 clients, and all want to watch 4 different channels, all on Digital TV (for example) you would either need 4 x TV cards, or 2 x Dual TV cards? How about if all 4 wanted to watch the same channel? I have not done enough testing on this but am curious about this - I assume this means that a really large TV server, with perhaps 5 slots in it, could stream up to 10 channels, if each tuner card was a dual card? EDIT: Well, did some testing, and had my first Blue Screen Of Death on the client PC - I had forgotten those things exist! :D [/QUOTE]

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