Adding a Second Tuner

[itzabo]

I currently have a ATI AIW 800xl, I need to add a second tuner.
Any suggestions? I'm guessing a PCI Hauppague PVR 150 would work.

TIA

Bo

[cpmiv]

It should work. Is that AIW a software encoder? If so then mixing H/W and S/W encoders isn't a "supported" configuration but I've seen many posts where people have a similar setup running.

[Teltek]

Bo;

I showed numerous glitches with WinTV Go-Plus. Upgraded to WinTV-PVR 150, all problems solved.
Now...I'm not sure how it would work as a "second" tuner card, or any conflicts, but as I had mentioned in one of my other emails...you can't always shoot the messenger.

On the flip side...up here in Canada...there is hardly enough programming on the Networks, to fully employ one tuner card, let alone two.

On the PVR-150...may be a good choice, since it has "hardware encoding-decoding", and not software. And I presume that the less work your upc needs to do the better...

Since I upgraded to the PVR-150, I don't worry about Recording/Playing at the same time, remote doesn't take 2 minutes to respond, or XP freezing.

-Ed-

[Randall]

Originally Posted by Teltek

Bo;

On the flip side...up here in Canada...there is hardly enough programming on the Networks, to fully employ one tuner card, let alone two.

Down here you think there IS!?!

Originally Posted by Teltek

On the PVR-150...may be a good choice, since it has "hardware encoding-decoding", and not software. And I presume that the less work your upc needs to do the better...

Since I upgraded to the PVR-150, I don't worry about Recording/Playing at the same time, remote doesn't take 2 minutes to respond, or XP freezing.

-Ed-

As per the question, I've an ATi 9600 and a PVR-250, and a Pinnacle PCTV (haven't used that yet). You could VERY easily use the ATi (software encoding) for Divx recordings, or when you pull something in that you'd like as an avi to do with what you please, and the PVR for all other recordings - dandy.

My PVR-250 has been dandy - just doesn't like my cable though....

[itzabo]

I bought a ATI Elite Pro. It has the Hardware MPEG decoder, where as my AIW has a softwre encoder. From everything I've read it has the best picture quality. It's waiting at Comp USA for me. If it won't work back it goes ;-)
I'm putting it in tommorow. I'll post the results when I'm done.

Bo

[itzabo]

I added the ATI Elite and it works great.
I had to remove all items in the Video source and then add them back in making sure which tuner was which (I unhooked the cable to the AIW)
I set the Elite as Primary and the AIW as the secondary.
I had one major crash but all is well since then. I think I'm going to get another Elite and not use the AIW tuner. It's that much better! And I won't get the snapstream doesn't support this configuration errror.


Server: P4 3.2 Northwood, 2 Gigs Corsair, AIW 800XT, ATI TV Wonder Elite Tuner, WD Raptor Boot Drive, Maxtor 200GB, and a WD 250 SATA data drives, NEC 16x DVD Burner, Lite On 4x DVD Burner

Remote 1: AMD 2500xp, 512mb Ram, Nvidia MX 440 intergrated with Firefly.

Remote 2:Sony VGN-A150 Laptop.

Bo