GameEx and PVR software coinciding with each other

[rhijaen]

I understand this is turning into more of a general query rather than a GameEx specific question, but people around here are really helpful. Thought I would ask here.

I'm thinking of getting a PCI TV Tuner card for my GameEx machine sometime soon. I don't have the luxury of having multiple PC's laying around (was a bad idea to give away my other 3 older computers). So I'm thinking of having my GameEx machine be a PVR system as well.

What is the best way of doing this?

Some ideas I have...

1. Launch GameEx from the PVR software as an external application (or vice-versa)

2. Have two partitions of windows. One that starts with GameEx automatically and one that starts the PVR software automatically.

Both have a problem.

1. Possible incompatibilites or slowdowns (not sure)

2. It's a pain to have to select the partition at boot up. It also takes a while to boot it up every time I want to switch.

I do have a question on #2. Is there a way to select a partition to restart into from windows? Example: Shutdown from GameEx partition and reboot into PVR partition without having to interfere.

Looking for an opinion on what people would suggest for this. Also, some new ideas are welcome.

(Can't wait for GameEx to support TV )

[bkenobi]

Try inquiring in this thread. It's supposed to be possible to do PVR type things in GameEx with this project. Of course, I don't know where it stands...

[Nologic]

Well in the mean time you could look into maybe getting one of the following to play nice with GameEx:

MediaPortal

GB-PVR

[rhijaen]

Was leaning more towards GB-PVR. Looked very nice.

Once I get my tuner card, I'll let you know how it goes.

[Nologic]

Some thing thats fairly simple to get setup to work with GameEx is DScaler if all you want to do is view TV.

Actually I'm surprised GameEx doesn't package or offer DScaler as part of the default installation until GameEx natively supports TV/PVR...hmm maybe thats some thing to be placed in the feature requests thread.

[jimjim9001]

hi i am doing the same sort of thing...

i going to have gameex on a partition with geexbox on and use a grub to selet witch one i want.....

gameex needs to be install on xp with fat32 partition....so i can then install geexbox on the same partition even it being linux...

geexbox plays , dvd,divx,avi,mpeg and lots more it can also be used as an jukebox or picture viewer......

geexbox also run from a live cd..............

and also geexbox run on low spec pc's

hope that helps

[TX_TRINITY]

I was toying about with a spare dish pointed at sky's sat and using a DVB card was able to get DVBviewer to serve the stream where it came in on the main pc and run a client on the Gamex to control it. It was simply called as an app and turned on map keys etc for mouse and movement control. Once I redifined the keys it worked quite well. Tho freeview sat feed wasn't much cop content wise