Re: Ceton InfiniTV 4 Tuner Sharing via Network Bridging
[quote=”Mikinho”]
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]
Bummer. So the authorization might be on the client side. I thought it was something that might be happening upon power-up of the Ceton card, since it doesn’t have to happen if you simply exit Media Center, then re-run Media Center. Maybe this is something that is happening in the Ceton service process.
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With network bridging you can do that in Vail, the VM is if you want an always-on machine to do all the recordings.
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I could live without the recordings happening on the Vail machine, although I understand why people want to do that (one less machine on all the time). If you use the VM solution, you are stuck with using extenders to get to the content (protected content) and to make changes to the scheduled recordings… and for me we just haven’t seen any decent extenders yet (xbox 360 slim is close, but still too loud). Then there is the issues with codecs on extenders, limitations on file size, lack of HD audio bitstreaming, etc. Extenders (for me) are nice to use in a pinch, but not as an everyday thing. I want a full HTPC at every TV and if they have access to live TV through the network bridging that’s just icing on the cake. Someday, maybe we’ll get homegroup sharing of (protected) recordings and then everything will be great and extenders completely not needed.
Cool that we can host the card where ever we want though…. I see another Ceton in my future… I think.