TV-Server Capabilites

The following are some of the capabilities of the MediaPortal TV-Server:

• TV-Engine is a windows service
• Analog support
• DVB-C support
• DVB-S support
• DVB-S2 support
• DVB-T support
• ATSC OTA support
• ATSC QAM support
• Automatically determines installed TV cards
• Viewing/recording multiple channels per transponder
• Use timeshift with liveTV
• Watch encrypted TV channels (with valid smartcard)
• Record TV-Shows
• Record scheduled shows when MediaPortal is not running
• Play analog radio
• Play DVB radio
• Play encrypted DVB radio (with valid smartcard)
• Grab DVB-EPG
• Grab DVB-EPG when MediaPortal is not running
• Grab DVB-MHW
• Grab DVB-MHW when MediaPortal is not running
• LiveTV can be streamed to multiple clients
• Recorded shows can be streamed to multiple clients
• One or more front-ends (like MediaPortal) can connect to TV-Engine
• Record MPEG-2 transport stream (.ts)
• MPEG-2 transport stream timeshifting
• H.264 transport stream support
• DVB AAC audio support
• Place shifting
• Multiple tuner support (even mixed)
• Hybrid tuner support
• Teletext viewer
• CI support for floppydtv
• CI support for firedtv
• CI support for twinhan
• CI support for technotrend
• CI support for KNC cards
• DVB-S generic BDA DisEqc support
• DVB-S DisEqc Motor control
• DVB bitmap subtitle support (live TV & recordings)
• DVB teletext subtitle support (live TV & recordings)
• DVB-S linkage scanner