2011-12-16, 01:12
dallasf Wrote:Hi,
Very interested in utilizing the tv function. However, I have little knowledge in this area. What is the best link to direct me to the right tv backend? I'm just using free to air with a standard tv card.
Thanks
To a point, I'm in the same boat (I don't use the PVR version... yet) but my understanding, at least on Windows, if you mean 'tv card' as in a tuner card with coax, you could use something like MediaPortal for the backend but if you mean 'tv card' as in a "Cable Card" input I don't believe it'll work. (At least via MP).
If you use Linux, one of the common backends was mentioned recently "tvheadend" (I know the guys that created MediaFrontPage and now collaborate on Maraschino with MrKipling) use it.
Anyway, this weekend I'm installing one of my TV Tuners into my Windows Server (HTPC) and probably do a write up about how well (if) it works.... If it turns out to suck too much, I'll install the Generic OpenELEC onto a 30GB SSD and boot that in the server for testing.