Sickboy 1 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 What is everyone's cablecard tuner of choice? I'm shopping around for one at this time since TV support is in the future for MBT. I have the HDHomerun Prime so that I can use a CableCard with 3 tuners. I have seen it as low as $99. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonmcroy 315 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Why "Timers"? Isn't "Scheduled Recording" a much more descriptive term? I agree with you on this. It always confused me when I used to use XBMC with any Live TV backend as that is what it's called when you're in XBMC. I never understood it completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ernstgot 17 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 What is everyone's cablecard tuner of choice? I'm shopping around for one at this time since TV support is in the future for MBT. Ceton makes great tuners, one problem tho they don't support DLNA at this time but they do offer more tuners than silicon dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denz 426 Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Has media portal been considered their TV server 3.5 supports many tuners that have CI whereas the other do not. That way we can watch channels on the HTPC that we paid for. Having access to one interface would be so convenient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftForPlex 8 Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Ceton makes great tuners, one problem tho they don't support DLNA at this time but they do offer more tuners than silicon dust. I started with a Ceton and moved to HD HomeRun's. While the Ceton provides more tuners per card <4 vs 3>, the dynamic pooling the HD Homerun has, vs the ceton's static pooling makes a world of difference. I have two HD Homerun Prime's and so I shared 6 tuner's across 6 difference PC's in the house. Most of the time we only have 1-3 tuners being accessed at once. With the Ceton, it was just a pain since the pooling/mapping was static to specific PC's. So if that tuner was not being used by the assigned PC, no other PC could use it. Anyone want to buy a Ceton tuner card? =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreeturez 27 Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Has media portal been considered their TV server 3.5 supports many tuners that have CI whereas the other do not. That way we can watch channels on the HTPC that we paid for. Having access to one interface would be so convenient. MediaPortal is more mature and definitely does offer better hardware tuner support than, say NextPVR: and in my case, I've actually reverted from NPVR back to MediaPortal since I've found the latter more reliable. BUT: MediaPortal is a pain to set up, and has a lot of dependencies including MySQL (even if they are installed automatically as part of the installer). So while I'd love to see MP support added, I understand why the MB3 team would start with NextPVR since it's closer to MediaBrowser's general simplicity and 'one-click-install' model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreeturez 27 Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 (edited) is there a media portal developer you think might be interested in doing it? Sure - the dev behind the XBMC MP plugin may very well be interested... Talented fellow, goes by 'Margro' on the XBMC forums. I'll PM him to point him here... Edited December 16, 2013 by kreeturez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37086 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 MediaPortal is more mature and definitely does offer better hardware tuner support than, say NextPVR: and in my case, I've actually reverted from NPVR back to MediaPortal since I've found the latter more reliable. BUT: MediaPortal is a pain to set up, and has a lot of dependencies including MySQL (even if they are installed automatically as part of the installer). So while I'd love to see MP support added, I understand why the MB3 team would start with NextPVR since it's closer to MediaBrowser's general simplicity and 'one-click-install' model. is there a media portal developer you think might be interested in doing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally007 6 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I just registered to post support for Live TV in general and in support of anything but NPVR. As far as I could see, NVPR does not support IPTV or any sort of network tuner (Dreambox, Vu+, HDHomeRun, IPTV providers... ). I've been using Plex since OSXBMC days, bought lifetime plexpass, bought all clients i could get my hands on and I think it's greatest thing since VCR... but until Live TV is implemented I will always be looking for alternatives and that's how I found MB3 :-) At the moment I'm using DVBLink->MCE for LiveTV and Plex launcher for everything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37086 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 next pvr supports network tuners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37086 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Sure - the dev behind the XBMC MP plugin may very well be interested... Talented fellow, goes by 'Margro' on the XBMC forums. I'll PM him to point him here... Excellent. Go get him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally007 6 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 next pvr supports network tuners Couldnt find any info that it does but on 4th page in their hardware subforum there seems to be discussion about HDHomerun tuners ... so i guess it does :-) Thanks for heads up and good luck ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scals37 1 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Ceton makes great tuners, one problem tho they don't support DLNA at this time but they do offer more tuners than silicon dust.Will DLNA be an integral part of MB3? Or is it more of a luxury like being able to stream to smart tvs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scals37 1 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Ceton makes great tuners, one problem tho they don't support DLNA at this time but they do offer more tuners than silicon dust.Will DLNA be an integral part of MB3? Or is it more of a luxury like being able to stream to smart tvs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scals37 1 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 (edited) apologies for the triple post, blame it on my smart phone and my school's network Edited December 17, 2013 by Scals37 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ernstgot 17 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Will DLNA be an integral part of MB3? Or is it more of a luxury like being able to stream to smart tvs As of right now I haven't heard anything about DLNA. But anything is possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14917 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 We want to be able to get on smart TVs but I don't think DLNA is the best way (unless you are talking about play to instead of browse). Chromecast would also help here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanKen 0 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I'm not a fan of "back ends." It's generally a config nightmare unless you're technically savvy. I'd love a server that integrates DVR and includes full cablecard/premium content support. But that's a costly endeavour. You'd need a PlayReady license and they are not cheap. If the entire TV stack were on the server, the clients could be thin. That would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37086 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 that's basically what we're doing minus the license Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scot 27 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 (edited) The latest TV backends are dead simple to set up...it is absolutely the best way for MBT to gain Live TV support. In my opinion, anybody going to the effort to have a network share, MB backend etc. with a MBT has more than enough technical ability to implement a TV backend (especially NextPVR or DVBLogic, both very simple).... Edited December 21, 2013 by smacrae1970 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee 204 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Kickstarter or some sort of crowd-funding for a PlayReady license??? We don't have copy protection in the uk but i bet a lot of US users would like to see that... Sent from my Windows Phone 8X by HTC using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scot 27 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 (edited) No, better to use an already released backed (such as NextPVR) that has taken care of all that and MBT just takes care of being the interface to various different backends...if your backend is PlayReady and MBT supports your backend than you have a solution. Then MBT can concentrate on more important things than supporting a TV Server for dozens of different counties, EPG blah blah... Edited December 21, 2013 by smacrae1970 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37086 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 No, better to use an already released backed (such as NextPVR) that has taken care of all that and MBT just takes care of being the interface to various different backends...if your backend is PlayReady and MBT supports your backend than you have a solution. Then MBT can concentrate on more important things than supporting a TV Server for dozens of different counties, EPG blah blah... exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ernstgot 17 Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 I hope we might get a new years gift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven 136 Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 I hope we might get a new years gift I am afraid it will not be a new years gift. Everything is going well. But .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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