PVR Hardware recommendations please?

hamster70332 · 2013-01-07, 08:06 PM

Hi All

Totally fed up with trying to get NPVR to work with my XP system, even after a complete fresh install of Windows etc...see my other posts...

I have a Hauppauge Nova HD S2 PCI card at present. This is the device that is causing issues. I cannot get it to tune and scan correctly. It will tune and scan but will miss at least 75% of the transponders. Works fully under Linux and TVHeadEnd.

Can anyone recommend a card that requires little intervention that works. Must work with UK DVB-S2 and all it's vagaries! I am quite happy for USB or PCI suggestions. Even PCIe suggestions are possible.

Many thanks everyone...I really do not want to go back to MythTV on Linux....

Jon

mvallevand · 2013-01-07, 10:31 PM

hamster70332 Wrote:Totally fed up with trying to get NPVR to work with my XP system, even after a complete fresh install of Windows etc...see my other posts...

Did you try a current Microsoft O/S, that is is the best solution.

Martin

ga_mueller · 2013-01-07, 11:24 PM

Your hardware is also pretty "geriatric"...

hamster70332 · 2013-01-08, 05:45 PM

Hi

@Martin: I will not pay Micro$oft more money when I have an OS that performs well with the hardware. XP is very well supported still and can see no reason to change. It is still a better OS than W7 which is on my main PC.
@ga_mueller: Quite right, my sig was over 5 years out of date! I have now updated it to reflect the hardware that I am using plus the main server.

Clearly there is no definitive list of supported TV card/device hardware available. This is a great pity. GBPVR in it's day was a well supported usable bit of software. I was really hoping that I could return to the fold and use NPVR to power my XBMC clients. Clearly this is not the case. Shame really...back to Linux I go.....

Thanks guys

mvallevand · 2013-01-08, 10:49 PM

We can agree to disagree since IMO XP is absolutely NOT better spefifically playing or recording digital BDA media. MS messed up several things, with XP Pro and MCE

Martin

martint123 · 2013-01-09, 11:22 AM

I have a WinTV-NOVA -HD -S2 PCI DVB-S2 card in my test system and I just got it to do a scan and it found 788 channels. Windows 7 though.

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