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Windows => Television => Topic started by: Dutch Peter on April 26, 2005, 09:37:32 am

Title: Turn my PC in a TV/Recorder with MC11
Post by: Dutch Peter on April 26, 2005, 09:37:32 am

Is it possible to fully integrate a WinTV-PVR 150 TV Card (by Hauppauge) into MC11?
What I mean is that I would like to use all offered features through MC11 and not by using software coming with this hardware.

Peter

Title: Re: Turn my PC in a TV/Recorder with MC11
Post by: Yaobing on April 26, 2005, 12:35:05 pm

What are "all offered features"?  :D

Here is what you can do using MC11:

1. Watch any TV channel.

2. Instant recording using a remote control, or keyboard, or mouse.

3. Time-shifting, i.e. pause, resume, rewind, fast forward, etc.

4. Scheduled recording, using Media Scheduler. Scheduling involves selecting a channel, a starting and a ending time.

Recording is done using your device's native format, i.e. MPEG-2.

These are the basic features. If you specify a particular feature, I will be able to tell you whether it is supported in MC11.

Yaobing

Title: Re: Turn my PC in a TV/Recorder with MC11
Post by: Yaobing on April 26, 2005, 12:38:42 pm

Quote from: Yaobing on April 26, 2005, 12:35:05 pm

What are "all offered features"?  :D

Here are some of the things you can do using MC11:

1. Watch any TV channel.

2. Instant recording using a remote control, or keyboard, or mouse.

3. Time-shifting, i.e. pause, resume, rewind, fast forward, etc.

4. Scheduled recording, using Media Scheduler. Scheduling involves selecting a channel, a starting and a ending time.

Recording is done using your device's native format, i.e. MPEG-2.

These are the basic features. If you specify a particular feature, I will be able to tell you whether it is supported in MC11.

Yaobing

Title: Re: Turn my PC in a TV/Recorder with MC11
Post by: Dutch Peter on April 26, 2005, 12:50:35 pm

That's a great start!!
Were can I find what TV Cards are supported?
I am thinking of buying a WinTV PVR 150 (by Hauppauge).
Or maybe one of the ATI cards?
Or is MC11 handling any card?

Peter

Title: Re: Turn my PC in a TV/Recorder with MC11
Post by: Dutch Peter on April 26, 2005, 03:33:23 pm

I found out that MC11 specifically supports WinTV PVR 150.

Without having this card it is not possible to see how MC11 handels it.

Are there somewhere screenshots (or a demo) available to some look and feel?

Peter

Title: Re: Turn my PC in a TV/Recorder with MC11
Post by: Dutch Peter on April 26, 2005, 03:47:22 pm

Learning every minute:

In MC11 when clicking on the TV Tuner (Drives and Devices) an short helptext is shown. Its says

Quote

ATI ALL-IN-WONDER cards
ATI TV Wonder cards (PCI and USB)
http://www.ati.com

Hauppauge WinTV PCI and USB
(excluding WinTV-PVR, and digital TV models)
http://www.hauppauge.com

To my knowledge the exclusion of WinTV-PVR is not valid anymore.

Am I correct?

Peter

Title: Re: Turn my PC in a TV/Recorder with MC11
Post by: JimH on April 26, 2005, 04:14:24 pm

You're correct.  The page is corrected now.  Thanks for reporting it.