Understand this: An MCE PC has one or more TV tuners and video capture cards in it and they will function exactly like any other PC with that hardware. MCE isn't an interface to multiple video formats and types and simply wonld not function correctly if it were. You're clearly one seriously misinformed individual. Having to use the proprietary MS stuff with all their DRM garbage is unsuitable." CZroe - Sunday, Octolink "Windows MCE will never be any use for people serious about video until it allows you to select what codecs you want to use for encoding from all the DirectShow codecs installed on your system.
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ThereĪre far too many limitations for it to be considered a full fledged feature In the end, it's tough to list HDTV support as a feature of MCE 2005.
Taxing on your system and on your graphics card. While we haven't had aĬhance to test it ourselves, HDTV playback under Media Center is supposedly pretty Getting OTA HDTV support will require two cards. HDTV Wonder does not feature a hardware MPEG-2 encoder, meaning that it cannotīe used as both your analog and HDTV tuner, so you'll have to either waitįor another card to be supported or you'll have to deal with the fact that Is the only HD tuner supported by MCE 2005 at this time, support for HDTV isn't To be the champion of bringing recordable We will have to wait and see how this situation plays out in the future,Īs it will most definitely adjust Microsoft's course of action with regards People aren't viewing broadcasts in HD so it's not a huge loss for Microsoft,