[Heatvent]

I am trying to turn my WHS into a media center as well. I have tried a couple of tv cards and although the drivers load, I don't get any video. Please list any TV cards that you have been successful in getting to work with WHS. Please include:

Brand
Model No.
Drivers Used.
Other relevant info...

thx

[GaMeR (WGS)]

Interesting thread. I've pinned it for other users.

[K.Rock]

I have two cards:

Hauppauge HD PVR (USB External)
KWORLD PlusTV HD PCI 120 ATSC 120 PCI

I am also using SageTV.

Are you trying to view the TV signal through Remote Desktop connection or with an actual monitor connected?

[Drashna Jaelre (WGS)]

Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 (I believe, its an old card)
Hauppauge WinTV HVR 1600 - NTSC works fine, ATSC/QAM... would if I had a decent provider/broadcaster out here!
WinXP drivers on both, had to force install. Works on MCE, MediaPortal, and bundled software (crap though)


Also, live TV will not work over Remote Desktop. Even if the app supports it, it will be *highly* laggy at best.

[mpenton]

HDHomerun, dual over the air ATSC tuners, network connection. Using BeyondTV.

[BrianL]

Well, I'm currently running SageTV on my WHS server as my primary DVR for the house

Had to move from my shuttle low-end case to a mother board with PCI-E slots so I could use some tuner cards.

Brand: Hauppauge
Model: WinTV-HVR-2250
Drivers: 7.3.0.26198 (only using Digital OTA tuners personally, there is a newer driver that fixes an issue with using both Analog tuners)

I'm also using two of the HD-PVR's to record HD content off my local cable company (connects via USB).

Would recommend a similar config to anyone interested. I even have a high WAF (wife acceptance factor) moving from Tivo to Sage :D

[Renagade]

Hi I am currently running a Tranquil PC M One, which contains 2 Pinnacle twin recievers Which I believe is Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T PCI and uses Sage TV to access the EPG and recordings etc.
I use Sage TV media extenders for the TV or Sage TV Placeshifter to watch record etc on my PCs connected to the server via a LAN

[chris3121]

I just ordered an Acer Aspire Easystore H340 a few days ago, and I noticed that it has a low profile PCI-E x1 slot for it. I was wondering if anyone knew of any TV-Tuners that would work in this slot? Also I was curious to see if anyone has actually done this, I can't find anyone who has so far...

[Drashna Jaelre (WGS)]

The Hauppauge HVR 2250 and 2200 both are PCI Express x1, low-profile cards. The 2250 is NTSC/ATSC, and the 2200 is DVB-T I believe. The 2250 is already confirmed to work, and I'm guessing the 2200 should follow suite also. :)

[Heatvent]

mpenton, on Apr 18 2009, 06:22 AM, said:

HDHomerun, dual over the air ATSC tuners, network connection. Using BeyondTV.

I believe the HDHomeRun also does ClearQAM?

HDHomeRun link

[Heatvent]

K.Rock, on Apr 16 2009, 12:38 PM, said:

I have two cards:

Hauppauge HD PVR (USB External)
KWORLD PlusTV HD PCI 120 ATSC 120 PCI

I am also using SageTV.

Are you trying to view the TV signal through Remote Desktop connection or with an actual monitor connected?

My server is right behind a wall from my main TV (50" plasma). I would like to connect directly to the TV and most likely use SageTV. I have another HD LCD TV that I would probably get the SageTV HD200 in order to stream tv/videos/etc. So both local/remote, but not on a PC anywhere.

[joedornan]

Heatvent, on Apr 18 2009, 08:57 PM, said:

My server is right behind a wall from my main TV (50" plasma). I would like to connect directly to the TV and most likely use SageTV. I have another HD LCD TV that I would probably get the SageTV HD200 in order to stream tv/videos/etc. So both local/remote, but not on a PC anywhere.

Hi folks.

I have a WINTV-HVR-2250 and a PVR-250MCE in a custom box. Both work just fine.

I use BeyondTV on the server which automatically streams to a laptop and a pc under the TV which both use BeyondTV Link.

Been using BTV since 2003. Zero complaints. Set it and forget it.

Cheers,
-Joe

[lostboy]

I'm using 2 types of DVB-T cards for SD resolution TV sucessfully in the UK.

a) Hauppague WinTV-NOVA-TD-500 - PCI twin tuner (although this is a PCI card it appears within WHS as 2xUSB devices)
b) Nebula electronics DigiTV PCI - single tuner

both using latest BDA drivers from the card manufacturers and GB-PVR in a client / server configuration. I use both PC clients and a Popcorn Hour (Syabas Network Media Tank) to watch recorded shows.

I get the impression from the GB-PVR forums that a reasonable number of people are using GB-PVR within WHS and a variety of TV cards covering all types of media.

Cheers

Chris

[becje01]

I'm using a Hauppage HVR-2200 on my WHS with MediaPortal's TV Server...

[Drashna Jaelre (WGS)]

For everyone that has a successful setup using their WHS for TV, would you mind PMing me with details. Would like to do tutorials to share the wealth of knowledge. :)

[voorhees]

I have one Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 and two WinTV-HVR-1600 cards running on my WHS. All three are using the Windows XP drivers that came with them. So far, knock on wood, they are all running fine.

[Olav A]

Hi,

I'm running SageTV add-in for WHS. TV tuners:
1x Hauppauge PVR500 with XP drivers. Stable, no problems.
2x Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV T/CI with XP drivers (BDA). Stable, no problems.

Digital Everywhere's SW reports WHS to be non-supported OS and complaints about the two missing XP hot fixes for firewire. I don't mind since SageTV for WHS has no problems with the tuners .

[Rhino Chaser]

Heatvent, on Apr 18 2009, 06:42 PM, said:

I believe the HDHomeRun also does ClearQAM?

HDHomeRun link

I currently use HDHR to trick VMC into thinking that my ClearQAM is an OTA signal. The new versions (Windows 7) will support dual signals (OTA and ClearQAM) via the HDHR. My version of VMC only supports one or the other.

Not to get completely off topoic but, I haven't tried to get it working on my WHS yet. First I have been trying to decide which software to use for streaming my Live/Recorded TV and video via HTTP to remote clients: laptop and mobile phone.