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Hi, I am moving to a new home in just over a month. I would like to setup XBMC in my TV room as a media centre and PVR. I am going to have two tv inputs. DirecTV satellite, and OTA from a rooftop antenna. Is it possible to have the PVR function with the two inputs? As well I will be building the machine myself so any recommended hardware would be appreciated also.
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I'm not sure it directly answers your question, but I have two inputs on two separate (USB) tuners, one DVB-T and one DVB-S, so much as you propose.
The tvheadend backend is perfectly happy with both cards most of the time (the only problems I get - and it's rare more recently - is when tvheadend starts before the cards have initialised properly).
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Thanks for your reply. I am not very familiar with all the language yet. I am unsure of what DVB-T and B are. But I will look it up. Do you happen to know if the os choice limits me to what pvr choice I. Make? I am leaning towards openelec which I believe tvheadend is made for?
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DVB-T = Terrestrial
DVB-S(2) = Satellite
DVB-C = Cable
With linux you can use tvheadend, or VDR. For windows you can use Mediaportal tvserver. All these options will work with xbmc/openelec. I'm using openelec and tvheadend with DVB-C myselve.
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Thank you very much. Looks like this will do exactly what I am hoping. I think I will build my system around Openelec
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Just do your homework - Openelec is a work in progress and details on what tuners are supported seem to be out of date. As a 'turnkey' system you can't just load up new firmware (drivers, essentially) if your card isn't supported, you have to request that the code is added to the relevant build.