Just wanted to say thanks for the hack! For the time being, I didn't want to pay the rental fee for 2 cable boxes and it would be a shame to waste the analog tuners sitting in the computer. Now I don't have to...

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MCE 2005 | AMD Athlon 64 3200 | 2GB RAM | 300GB HDD | Sapphire x1950 Pro 512MB | Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE | HDHomerun

Just wanted to say thanks for the hack! For the time being, I didn't want to pay the rental fee for 2 cable boxes and it would be a shame to waste the analog tuners sitting in the computer. Now I don't have to...

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MCE 2005 | AMD Athlon 64 3200 | 2GB RAM | 300GB HDD | Sapphire x1950 Pro 512MB | Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE | HDHomerun

Just wanted to say thanks for the hack! For the time being, I didn't want to pay the rental fee for 2 cable boxes and it would be a shame to waste the analog tuners sitting in the computer. Now I don't have to...

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MCE 2005 | AMD Athlon 64 3200 | 2GB RAM | 300GB HDD | Sapphire x1950 Pro 512MB | Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE | HDHomerun

Okjust for the record I feel very stupid, and Im sure the answer will make me feel worse, ..BUT Ive scoured this thread but where is the actual hack?  I'm very keen to try this as I have analogue on one and need to add sky's analogue output onto my second card

thanks

Nick

Count me blind as well...

Where is the hack?!?

I'm ***HOPING*** to use a single TV tuner for analog cable, and Firewire as a second tuner from a Motorola 6412 cable box PVR.

Added the instructions to my first post.    They were attached to original post but the forum backend has changed and stripped the attachment.

Cheers,
Jon

A gazillion thanks will let you know how I get on

Hey guys! Forgive me if this has already been asked... but it's late and I don't have time to read the previous posts...

I have Comcast Digital cable and two PowerColor T550 Pro's. I have only STB, which is plugged into my only wall connection... how do I implement this hack? Do I split the coax. Then send one into the card, and the other into the STB?

Please let me know. I am noobie.......

Great hack. Quick question -> does this work with 2 tuners with 3 inputs ?

i.e.  1 * PVR150 for STB connection, and 
      1*Dual DVB-T freeview card with 2 inputs ?

Oh and I live in the UK where mixed analog & digital cant happen natively in MCE....

Wow, this might be the answer i was looking for but couple questions:

1) I have directtv and when i plug in the coax from wall to tv straight , i get no video. Does that mean it wont work?

2) Has anyone confirmed from US, that this works with Directv?

3) I've read the hack but just need clarification, with two tuners will one record 1 channel while you watch another channel on the other tuner? (pretty sure the answer is yes)

Thanks for your help, you guys are awesome!

I have followed the instructions to use two cards but alas I am only seeing the one card in MCE.

I have two Hauppauge HVR1300 cards one goes to a Sky Digibox the other uses an antenna to receive Freeview Digital TV (in the UK).  When following the instructions both work individually but only the card to the Sky box works when I reach the end of the instructions.  Any clues as to what could be wrong?

The big stumbling block may be that the channel numbers are different, BBC One on freeview is channel 1 but on Sky it is 101, so I can't figure out how to see channel 1 (the EPG is set to Sky's listings).  You mention at the start of your instructions that you can get around this somehow, could you explain this in more detail please.  Many thanks.

I don't have time to read the whole thread, so if this has been asked sorry.  Will this hack work with an internal pci card and and external USB tuner, or do they need to be the same interface?

I currently have a cable company supplied dual tuner dvr, but if I can get this to work it would save me the higher dvr rental fee.  My plan would be split the cable from the wall 1 split into the rfin on the digital box the other into the internal tvtuner in the pc.  Then rfout or rca ouputs of the digital cable box in to the external usb tuner.

 

Would this work?

ajwees41

Hi, I've been using MCE with one tuner receiving video signal from a Sky set-top-box and of course I'm using the automaticly downloaded EPG for Sky digital.

What I want to do is to add another tuner to receive a signal from a local (I don't live in the UK) set-top-box.

I'm using Hauppauge PVR-250MCE card for the Sky set-top-box and the "auto" EPG uses channels 101-999

I have another Hauppauge PVR-250MCE card that I liked to setup for the local set-top-box. I need to add the local channels to the EPG (only the channel number I don't need the schedule). The local set-top-box uses channels from 001 to about 020 so they don't confligt with the Sky channels.

What I imagined to do is to have channels 001-020 for the local TV and 101-999 for Sky digital in the EPG. So if I would flick to channel 001 MCE would use the tuner for the local box and if I would flick to channel 101 MCE would change and use the tuner for Sky. Also if I would hit record on a local channel I would be able to switch to a Sky channel to watch or record and vise-versa.

What I need from you guys is an answer if this is posible or not.

Is it? is it? please let it be?

Okey it's done. I now have two set-top-boxes.

The thing that I would like to do now is to be able to switch between tuners without having to start a recording to preoccupy a tuner.

Channels 101-999 are used for Sky set-top-box (primary) with the Sky EPG

Added channels 1-99 are used for local tv through a set-top-box (secondary)

The best thing would be if MCE could automaticly change to the tuner for the secondary set-top-box if I would go to channel 1-99 and back to the Sky set-top-box when going to channel 101-999. Like tying a channel to a tuner.

The second best thing would be to program some addin in the i (info) button menu or a button on the remote to switch between tuners.

Knows anyone if this can be done in MCE2005 or Vista?

This is my #1 wish.

What's the big issue with mixing analogue and digital?
I'm in New Zealand, have a Saturn Digital Cable STB which only outputs analogue composite video. That currently goes to a Hauppauge WinTV PVR150MCE in a machine running XP. That all works fine.
Now that "freeview HD" is available, I would like to be able to record HD programs, but I need to retain the cable STB for subscription channels. Is this possible, or would I need another mache to be able to do this.