Re: Ceton InfiniTV 4 Tuner Sharing via Network Bridging

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October 29, 2010 at 4:15 pm #1814
mikinho
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    [quote=”RehabMan”]
    Also, I was hopeful that this would allow my HTPC to sleep and still allow instant access to the tuners since they would not have the minute-long authorization period as they would have never been powered down…  (waking the HTPC from sleep, then waiting a minute for the Ceton to become available is not acceptable, so now I just keep the HTPC on all the time).
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    I”ll need to test but I believe the 1-minute delay will still be there.  Media Center will still need to authorize the tuner for use, the delay in the usage isn’t due a boot up process on the Ceton card.

    [quote=”RehabMan”]
    My question is why would it be necessary to run a W7 VM on the host PC to make the Ceton share over the network.  Doesn’t it just need a “warm body” — a networked PC capable of loading the drivers or some subset that allows the network bridging to happen?  That is… I hope it does not require a Media Center capable machine as host… as that would open up the possibility of hosting it inside of WHS Vail.
    [/quote]

    With network bridging you can do that in Vail, the VM is if you want an always-on machine to do all the recordings.