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Originally Posted by theKramer
What I was wondering was this.
If I, say, have a motherboard with 2 ethernet ports,
that has 2 dual TV-tuners in 2 PCI slots,
and have 2 media extenders connected to a TV each.
Is it possible to have each extender directly connected to separate ethernet ports
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You'll have to look but I believe the extenders need a DHCP server, so if you can setup a DHCP server on your PC, then you should be able to do that. A router is probably easier though.
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and have SageTV media center specify eg. Tuner Card A is going to transfer its data to ethernet port A, and Tuner Card B is going to transfer its data to ethernet port B.
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Nope, recording and playback are completely separate. Tuners are dynamically allocated on a need basis, to scheduled recordings (manuals and favorites) and then to LiveTV.
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I am presuming that the video/audio is transferred over the ethernet cable to the extender, and the extender has all the connections for the TV and audio system.
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Yup, the MPEG is streamed to the extender where it is decoded and output over the MVP's A/V connections.
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The idea is that there would be the option of watching each TV separately and recording another channel simultaneously. So basically 4 channels being accessed at the same time.
Thoughts?
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That's the way it works. With 2x dual-tuners, 4 channels can be recorded at a time. Those recordings can be any combination of Favorites, IR, Manual Recorings, and Live TV. You could, with 4 extenders, watch 4 channels live simultaneously.
With your current setup, you can watch 2 live channels, and record two more, or record 4 live channels and watch two recordings, or anything inbetween.