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[TSpeirs]

OK, I am pretty much ready to start working on TV Support in GameEx, and when I say TV I'm talking about PVR/DVR, as I know many of you already run GameEx on your TV!

If you are interested and want to be and early adopter of GameEx TV, or just generally want to help the project out, and would consider yourself technically minded enough to Beta test software and can dedicate a little time - then please drop me an email.

This offer and opportunity is only available to registered GameEx users, and its likely TV support will be a free upgrade for anyone registered now unless it ends up blowing away the competition, and Beta testers! You also must be able to test/run the software on a Windows XP (not MCE) which must have SP2 (or later), and obviously a tuner card. The tuner card must be compatible and work on MCE, but you don't need MCE.

My email address is on this page:

http://tomspeirs.com

Many thanks in advance.

Tom Speirs
Mr GameEx

[TSpeirs]

Comments and questions about GameEx TV support are welcome here, if anyones interested.

Cheers,
Tom

[Microfrost]

Hi,

Will there be tuning support for Freeview? Not sure if this is in the states but over here in UK we have a digital TV service that's broadcasted via the same analogue arials system all over the country (at least most of it). If I got a tuner card that supported Freeview would there be a chance it would work. I'm whiling to buy a card and beta test for you.

Cheers
Chris

[TSpeirs]

Microfrost, on Jan 13 2006, 04:32 PM, said:

Hi,

Will there be tuning support for Freeview? Not sure if this is in the states but over here in UK we have a digital TV service that's broadcasted via the same analogue arials system all over the country (at least most of it). If I got a tuner card that supported Freeview would there be a chance it would work. I'm whiling to buy a card and beta test for you.

Cheers
Chris

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi,

I'm in the UK, and I know they have it in the states, but I think its mostly crappy due to the huge size of the country. IE they only get a few local channels in a lot of cases.

Yes, I do plan on adding support for Digital Terrestrial (eg Freeview in UK), but not to start with.

If the TV card is compatible with Windows Media Center, then it should work.

In general in order for a card to work, it either needs to have a hardware MPEG2 encoder such as PVR 150,250,350,500, or receive a signal trasnmitted in MPEG2 ie freeview/digital terrestrial. Digital cards also need to have BDA drivers. I used a Blackgold in MCE before I used SKY and an analog card.

Initially Ill be focusing on analogue cards, don't buy one just yet, but Ill be keeping everyone posted as usual.

Cheers.

[wastedmind]

Well concidering I have been using MCE for sometime now> I would love to test GameEX tv. I just hope there is going to be support for my tv card a nivida nvn dual turner a MCE certified hardware.

[ktulu909]

I would be interested in testing as well,but I have a AIW 9600,which I beleive is not certified.I do think that theres work arounds for it though.

[TSpeirs]

Looks like I've got a fair bit of interest. Thanks guys. I could still do with many more people though.

Remember please email me if you wan to be a beta teter, and not or as well as post here. Main reason for emailing is that when the time is write I can email you back!

Please include GameEx in the subject of the email, just to make life easier for me

[Smiff]

this is interesting, but my machine is so small ill need to buy an external tv tuner lol. so maybe one day, its not on my plans atm due to having sky+, but when/if i ditch sky+ it could get very interesting..

[offreenday]

tv testers,ok, but for pal or ntsc format? (not same resolution).

[protecteur]

Hi! Tom I am very interested in beta testing GameEx with TV Support. I sent you an email. I am presently a beta tester for KMS software and have lots of experience with mce.

Thanks

Shawn

[TSpeirs]

offreenday, on Jan 16 2006, 06:51 PM, said:

tv testers,ok, but for pal or ntsc format? (not same resolution).

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Both, Americans pretty much rule over the planet, and I am British, so your safe

[TSpeirs]

Update: I've had ten people contact me, not all have the required hardware.

Anyone else want to pioneer this with me?

[ktulu909]

Im assuming that I am one of the ones without the hardware huh?Man NO ONE wants to hook up any of us AIW owners

[TSpeirs]

ktulu909, on Jan 22 2006, 10:29 PM, said:

Im assuming that I am one of the ones without the hardware huh?Man NO ONE wants to hook up any of us AIW owners

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes, but I'd love to be able to hook you up if I could, but it would take a highly different and hugely more complex and time consuming way of implementing TV in GameEx.

Have you checked out MediaPortal?

[ktulu909]

TSpeirs, on Jan 23 2006, 04:52 AM, said:

Yes, but I'd love to be able to hook you up if I could, but it would take a highly different and hugely more complex and time consuming way of implementing TV in GameEx.

Have you checked out MediaPortal?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No timeshift or record ability,thanks but looks like Im stuck with the old ATI multimedia center.

[protecteur]

HI! Tom I can test it on my pc I have a dual boot PC which I can boot in either Media Center 2005 or Windows XP Pro. I have an haupage pvr 250/350mce tv tuner card, an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 megs video card, 2.59 ghz P4 Processor with 1 gig of ram. I also Have SP2 installed with all the latest Ms updates.

I hope to here from you soon!!

Cheers

Protecteur

[TSpeirs]

Any more?

[mec11]

TSpeirs, on Jan 25 2006, 09:34 AM, said:

Any more?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I've got an AIW which does software encoding otherwise I would. Sorry.

[haxorboy]

I'd be happy to take a stab at this for you if my specs work out for you. I have full working install of gbpvr but need my MAME fix, found your board and thought what a great idea. Let me know if my system would meet the specs.

[kinace]

can you add me to the list also

right now im using Gamex to launch ProgDVB and it is very stable with a Skystar2 card.

it would be good to have an all-in-one system with diseqc motor support and plugins for Imdb etc. like on the dreambox