Components needed? (TV over PC question)

[T Shadow]

You can switch but both can't operate at the same time and you can't record
from one while watching the other.

You can only use one input on the card at a time but you can use an AIW card
and a TV Wonder card(need capable version)to do PIP/POP. With a 2 tuner
setup it is possible to capture and watch at the same time. ATIs name for it
is Multview. Using other than ATI software may be problematic. Have not used
it myself but Easyshare allows broadcasting to other computers.

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[Will Dormann]

The main reason I do it that way is because my frontend system is a
small form factor unit (Asus Pundit). There's only room for one hard
drive. For a single stream, the 100Mbit ethernet is fine. If I ever
decided to go for multiple tuners, I'd most likely need to go for
Gigabit ethernet. (or a dedicated MythTV backend server with internal
hard drives)

Now that I think about it, 100Mbit should be OK for multiple streams
too. I got my bits and bytes mixed up. My recordings are 3-5Mb/sec,
not MB.

 

[David Maynard]

You can only use one input on the card at a time but you can use an AIW card
and a TV Wonder card(need capable version)to do PIP/POP. With a 2 tuner
setup it is possible to capture and watch at the same time. ATIs name for it
is Multview. Using other than ATI software may be problematic. Have not used
it myself but Easyshare allows broadcasting to other computers.

Well, of course you can with two cards but the issue was JAD suggesting you
could do it with one because it had two inputs: tuner and RCA. It can't.