[DisabledTrucker]

I am curious if the encoders such as the WinTV-PVR-350 are compatible with the MCE 2005, which contain both a hardware encoder as well as decoder? I have searched everywhere on M$'s site to find this, but all I can find is the MCE versions in relation to it. I know it's compatible with cards which have hardware encoding, but what about hardware decoding as well? Also, is it possible to get a card such as the DVico Fusion-ATSC or Fusion-HDTV3-T without another analog card, is it possible within MCE 2005 or do you still have to use the analog card as well with the roll up 1?

 

[SHS]

hardware encoder should work just fine but not hardware decoder so you may as well for get about OSD support.

 

[DisabledTrucker]

I know that hardware encoders work it says so on the M$ site, I am curious if the WinTV-PVR-350 in particular will work or not, or has anyone with one even loaded MCE 2005 as of yet? I am still also looking for how to get the DVico Fusion-ATSC or Fusion-HDTV3-T to work without the need of a seperate analog tuner or if this is actually possible or not.


Reason I ask this is my case only has room for 4 slots, I am fixing to upgrade to Windows MCE 2005 and two of my slots are already filled with a sound card and 56k modem that has to stay. I know I have to replace the current video card with a DirectX9 compatible card, which leaves me with one slot left to put another card. Thus I need a single card solution which will also get me digital signals through the MCE 2005. If there isn't a way, which I heard somewhere that I can do it with the DVico's, I will have to get a different analog only card for the time being and I am seriously considering the WinTV-PVR-350 for the hardware decoding. If that doesn't work, I'll have to go with something else, which I am not sure I really want. As far as OSD goes, I can care less about that, I am more interested in the quality of the hardware decoding than I am with it.

 

[DisabledTrucker]

Well I got my own answer to the question about the WinTV-PVR-350, I placed a long distance phone call to Happauge and they told me that the card will work but while using the MC in MCE 2005 you just don't have the full abilities of the card such as the video out and the hardware decoder wont work while using it. Though if you use the software which comes with the WinTV-PVR-350 instead of M$ MCE all the features will work under MCE 2005. Also, you'd have to go to the website and get the cards drivers for use in MCE 2005. According to Hauppage, they said whatever features M$ doesn't yet support that the card does, wont work, but the card will work under MCE 2005 with the updated drivers from the website.


Now to find out about the DVico's...