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post #21 of 26
1/4/08 at 10:15pm
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Oh. I only have 1 tuner card on my HTPC. Do the cards have to be identical? Also, the Meedios link in the first post doesn't work anymore.
I have 2 different tuners. One is the ATI 9600XT with built in tuner and the other is the Hauppauge PVR-150. I'm using Beyond TV for my DVR. It can detect both cards. First you need to decide what software you are going to you and look at the supported tuners. For Beyond TV you can always download the trial and find out that way. I know Sage TV has a trial too. Meedios has a built in DVR too, but it's a little harder to setup and my ATI TV tuner isn't supported. Plus I like everything Beyond TV does. I use Meedio as my DVR frontend and have a link in it to open my Beyond TV. When I want to close out of Beyond TV, I just press the power button on my remote and then I'm back in Meedio. Hope this helps.

The link in the first post works for me. Its www.meedios.com
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post #22 of 26
1/9/08 at 12:39pm
I already have Beyond TV and my HTPC all set up and it's been running for a couple of weeks now. The only thing that would be handy is being able to record two shows at once. Do you happen to have the list of supported tuners from Beyond TV?

Also, that Meedios link works, thanks. The link you have on the first page titled "Meedio 1.41 Download" links to a page that says they sold their software but you can download the last version of it here; but that URL doesn't work.
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1/9/08 at 1:00pm
Two questions...
What OS do you use and which tunner do you like the most (gives you the best picture)?
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post #24 of 26
1/9/08 at 10:40pm
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I already have Beyond TV and my HTPC all set up and it's been running for a couple of weeks now. The only thing that would be handy is being able to record two shows at once. Do you happen to have the list of supported tuners from Beyond TV?

Also, that Meedios link works, thanks. The link you have on the first page titled "Meedio 1.41 Download" links to a page that says they sold their software but you can download the last version of it here; but that URL doesn't work.
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Supported TV tuner cards (analog)

* With Hardware Encoding (1)
o Adaptec AVC-3610
o Adaptec VideOh! Media Center (USB 2.0)
o Adaptec VideOh! Media Center (PCI)
o Adaptec USB 2.0 Dual TV Tuner
o ADSTech InstantTV Deluxe (USB 2.0)
o ADSTech InstantTV Deluxe (PCI)
o ATI eHome Wonder
o ATI TV Wonder Elite
o ATI Theater 550 chipset based TV tuners, including:
+ ATI Theater 550 Pro
+ Sapphire Theatrix
+ others by GeCube, Gigabyte, MSI, Tul, and Yuan
+ Other models by ATI or Sapphire may use the same chipset as well
o ATI Theater 650 chipset based TV tuners
o AverMedia m150
o Avermedia m175
o Diamond XtremeTV PVR550 (PCI)
o Diamond XtremeTV PVR600 (USB)
o Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 (more information)
o Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150MCE
o Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250
o Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250BTV
o Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350
o Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500MCE
o Hauppauge WinTV-PVR USB2
o Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600
o NVIDIA® DualTV MCE tuner
o PixelView PlayTV P7000
o Plextor PX-TV402U / PXM402U
o Prolink Pixelview PlayTV HD
o Yuan MPG-600
o Yuan MPG-843
o Yuan PG-600

* Without Hardware Encoding:
o ASUS TV880
o ATI TV Wonder (PCI / USB)
o ATI TV Wonder Pro (PCI)
o ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0
o ATI TV Wonder VE
o ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon family
o ATI All-In-Wonder "X-series" models (X300, X600, X800, X850)
o AVerMedia AverTV Stereo (PCI)
o AVerMedia AverTV Studio family
o Hauppauge Win-TV Go PCI
o Hauppauge Win-TV Go FM
o Hauppauge Win-TV Go Stereo PCI
o Hauppauge Win-TV Radio
o Hauppauge Win-TV USB
o Hauppauge Win-TV USB Pro
o Hauppauge Win-TV USB 2
o I/O Magic PC PVR
o LifeView FlyVideo 98
o LifeView FlyVideo 3000
o nVidia Personal Cinema family
o Osprey 100 (PCI) (Using BTWinCap Drivers)
o Pinnacle PCTV (PCI)
o Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe
o Pinnacle PCTV Pro
o Pinnacle PCTV Rave PCI
o Pinnacle PCTV (USB)
o PixelView XCapture PCI (Conexant 2338x chipset)
o Plextor PX-TV100U / PX-AV100U
o STB Systems (PCI)
o TerraTec Cinergy 400 TV

* Read more about supported TV tuner cards
* Read more about multiple tuner support in Beyond TV

Supported TV tuner cards (digital)

* ADSTech InstantHDTV PCI
* ATI HDTV Wonder
* ATI Theater 650 chipset based TV tuners
* AverMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180
* Dvico FusionHDTV5 Lite
* Dvico FusionHDTV3 Gold
* Dvico FusionHDTV5 Gold
* Dvico FusionHDTV5 Gold Plus
* Dvico FusionHDTV5 Gold USB
* Hauppauge HVR-950 (USB stick)
* Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600
* Kworld ATSC-TV 310U USB
* Kworld ATSC-110
* Pinnacle Systems PCTV HD Pro Stick (USB Stick)
* Silicon Dust HDHomeRun (clear QAM)
* VBox Cat's Eye DTA-151
* VBox Cat's Eye USB-A 3560

External tuners: PC IR Blasters

* USB-UIRT (Buy it here)
* IR Blaster that comes with the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
* MyBlaster
* Actisys IR-200L
* Other PC IR Blasters that are compatible with Girder

External tuners: Serial Port Tuning

* DirecTV (Sony set-top box) serial port tuning (Buy it here)
* DirecTV (RCA set-top box) serial port tuning (Buy it here)
* Motorola DCT-2000 (with 7.54 or above firmware)
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Important Notes

(1) TV tuner cards with hardware encoding do all the "heavy-lifting" required to record and watch TV which allows your processor to do other things. For this reason, SnapStream recommends TV tuner cards with hardware encoding.

(2) Certain video cards are not compatible with Beyond TV. Please see the Incompatible Video Cards document in the SnapStream Knowledge Base for more information.

(3) Beyond TV requires a PC IR blaster or serial port tuning cable for tuning digital cable and satellite set-top boxes. Certain DirecTV set-top boxes can be controlled using serial port tuning and other set-top boxes require a PC IR blaster.

(4) A PC Remote Control is optional. SnapStream highly recommends one if you plan to use Beyond TV in your living room on your television.

(5) While Beyond TV supports Windows XP Media Center Edition, some extra steps are required to make it work. See this knowledgebase article for more information.

(6) Beyond TV does not support Windows Vista 64 bit, only x86 32 bit.
Source

Click on the link in the first post, then go to the 3rd post to download Meedio 1.41.
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post #25 of 26
1/9/08 at 10:47pm
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Originally Posted by FireMarshallBill View Post
Two questions...
What OS do you use and which tunner do you like the most (gives you the best picture)?
Windows XP Pro for the OS. I recommend the Hauppauge tuners. To be honest, I can't tell a difference between my 2 tuners. Just remember that your picture is going to look like the regular cable that currently runs to your tv. You aren't going to be able to improve it. I can't tell that much of a difference between my regular tv and my HTPC tuners. It also depends on what codecs you use. I'm using the ones that come with Beyond TV. You'll just have to do some tweaking with the colors, brightness and contrast to get your HTPC to match regular tv. My tv has a feature where you can put picture-in-picture side-by-side. I did that then adjusted.
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post #26 of 26
1/28/08 at 2:19am
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I'm loving Meedio more every day. I just got my movies setup to 2 random movie trailers and a random intro(like THX intro at the movie theater) before the main movie begins. I have the movie trailers saved to my hard drive and it updates them every day.
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