[mythtv-users] Can I use a Ceton InfiniTV device on a Windows 7 box?

[Frank Feuerbacher]

On 1/7/2013 2:03 PM, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Frank Feuerbacher <fbacher at brisbin.net> wrote:
>> InfiniTV with MythTV locally, or otherwise would be useful. My experience
>> with NextPVR is that it works fairly well as long as you don't watch live TV
>> or change channels (which generally works for me). The (1080-i mpeg2) .ts
>> files produced using my cable operator tend to be noisy, preventing playback
>> by VLC and requiring processing with ts4np.exe and/or Project-X before
> MythTV can use the card even if it is installed in your Windows box.
> MythTV will use RTP/RTSP to access the data remotely. However, the
> problem you will encounter is that there is no good way to coordinate
> sharing a tuner between the two systems. When sharing the card between
> multiple Windows Media Center systems, the way they deal with it is to
> statically assign tuners to each system (so this system gets 1 tuner,
> that system gets 1 tuner, and this other system gets the remaining 2,
> and never again shale they change unless you manually reassign them).
> So unfortunately in myth you have to do that same type of
> thing....give mythtv access to some of the tuners and give Windows
> access to the rest of the tuners.
>
>
I expected that, but thanks for confirming. Currently I only have one 
tuner enabled (my wife is cheap, each one costs $2.50/month from the 
cable co.).