Can you mix tuners in MCE

[JohnJJG]

I would like to buy a freeview tuner card (PCI or USB) for MCE 2005. No problem with that. But I would like to keep my Hauppauge WinTV 150 analogue tuner card in the PC.

I don't want to use the analogue tuner part within Media Center but I would like to use it for video capture using the composite in?

I know that MCE does not allow mixed tuners because of all tuners have to use the same EPG settings. Can you select only the freeview tuner in MCE and only use the analogue tuner outside Media Center.

Anyone know if this is possible?

[MadduckUK]

what about a freeview card that has composite in itself? they certainly exist and would be the "cleaner" option

[Funkstar]

MCE won't disable PVR-150 from working in other apps, it just won't work in MCE along with the Freeview card.

This goes for combo dvb-t/analogue cards too.

[crazyfool]

you can use multiple tuners on your computer but only one in mce... so you can set up one in mce and use the other one outside of it

[s_kinton]

The link below might be relevant, should work for what you want to do - only way to do it is via a registry hack. The green button is definitely the place to ask this question though, its a very good site for media centre PCs.

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/46023.aspx

[JohnJJG]

Thanks all, looks like it should be okay. The all in one card is probably the best solution but it seems a shame to throw away a WinTV 150 that is working fine when a single tuner freeview card is only about £30.

Haven't been to the greenbutton site for a while, not since I first built an MCE system. After an initial flurry when MCE 2005 was released it seemed to go quiet.