Hybrid Cards

Introduction

Today we see more and more hybrid TV cards on the market.A hybrid TV card (or stick) is a card which has 2 or more tuners but, where you can only use 1 tuner at the same time.An example of a hybrid card is a card which has an analog tv and a DVB-T tuner.You can use either one, but you can not use both at the same time.So if you want to watch analog tv, then you can not use the DVB-T part. And if you watch DVB-T you can not use the analog part.Sadly under Windows a hybrid card is represented as 2 separate cards.In the above example this means you will see an analog card and dvb-t card.When you do nothing the TV-Server therefore detects 2 cards not knowing that in reality this is a hybrid card allowing you only to use 1 of the 2 tuners.

Configuration

When you have installed the TV-Server all cards will be shown in the setup.The picture gives an example of a system containing a FlyTv Express X1 MST-T2A2 TV-card:

The FlyTv Express is a dual hybrid card which contains

• 2 analog inputs
• 2 dvb-t inputs

This card allows you to

• use 2 analog tuners at the same time
• or use 2 DVB-T tuners at the same time
• or use 1 DVB-T tuner and 1 analog tuner at the same time

To make the TV-Server aware of this we select the first DVB-T and analog tuner which belong together with a right click and place them in a seperate group:

Since this is a dual-hybrid card, we do the same for the 2nd DVB-T and analog tuner.

Now that the tuners have been placed in a group, we should see the following picture:

Here we clearly see that we've now defined 2 hybrid cards. Each hybrid card contains 1 analog and 1 DVB-T tuner.Now the TV-Server knows that these cards are hybrid ones and will respect the limitations of the card(s) so that things should work fine.