Which do you all think will be the best combo? (Tuner+MediaPortal or HDHomerun Extend+MmediaPortal?) Just want fast channel changes and the ability to stream. I'm just up in the air as far as deciding between the HDHomerun Extend or getting a PCI tuner card like the 2250 and marrying up one of those with MP. I've shot down using MythTV and NextPVR and think MediaPortal is the tool I want to use. I was thinking about just buying a Hauppauge capture card (2250?) and letting my HTPC with it's i5 CPU transcode to h.264 (since the 2250 captures in MPEG2) and serve to everything and using MediaPortal as the bridge. Rather than a full-fledged DVR and media center system, Tvheadend is a back-end TV streaming server and digital video recorder.They don't seem to be plagued with the same problems as Tablo's have with the Roku.Īnd lastly. The best alternative is MediaPortal, which is both free and Open Source. 2015 I just switched back to tvheadend on my Chromebox running OpenELEC. I've seen lots of videos where people were using NextPVR/MythTV in conjunction with these boxes with good results. Install from repository -> PVR Clients and select the NextPVR add-on. I hear that channel changes on them are quicker then what Tablo can do. It's designed for Windows and has a server aspect at its core that allows you to set up live TV and DVR. Like the Tablo, it encodes to h.264 so serving to iPads, Roku won't be a problem but nobody has them in stock right now but I understand a batch is on the way so here in a few weeks I might be able to grab one. MediaPortal is a free, open-source media center, often described as an alternative to Kodi. (I want semi-fast channel changes.10 seconds is too long.) I looked at the Tablo but seeing all their problems and reports that it takes 10 seconds to flip from 1 channel to the other makes me not want to buy that device. Right now, it's running Plex and serving up everything (ripped movies, TV shows, MP3s, home movies, digital pictures). My HTPC is a mid-tower running Win 7, 8 gigs of RAM and lots of drive space. I do NOT have the need to record anything from these OTA channels. I just want to be able to stream some OTA HD channels to the following devices Roku 3, iPad, Android phone, a few boxes running Kodi and a Shield TV that Santa got me. Hi there, I've been spending a LOT of time the past few days reading up on how to setup hardware to allow watching live TV on various devices and had a few questions.
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