MediaPortal Wiki 
Supported TV Cards
MediaPortal 1:
To get a card working inside MediaPortal 1 it is required to add/code specific support for this card.
- You can find a list of natively supported TV-Cards below.
ATTENTION: MediaPortal 1 does NOT SUPPORT DVB-S2. Only the TV-Server does.
Analog Hardware Encoding
Analog Software Encoding
Note: Even though SW-encoding analogcards are working in theroy, this setup is not supported by the Team MediaPortal.
If you want to know about the setup of such a system you should have a look at the if you still want to try to get such a setup done have a look at the related guide.
ATSC (United States HDTV) MP glossary, Wikipedia
Hybrid (combination of analoge and/or DVB on one card)
MediaPortal - TV-Server:
The MediaPortal TV-Server virtualy supports "every TV-Card". It also detects your TV-Card automatically.
- There are however a few special features which are only supportd by some TV-Cards.
You kind find out more about this on the TV-cards page
TV Card chipsets overview
Here you can find a list of chipsets from the big manufacturers of TV tuner chipsets some of which are supported by MediaPortal:
NXP (former Philips Semiconductors)
- ATI/AMD
- Empia Technology
- 8VSB/QAM
- WIS
- Vision Tech Kfir
- Microtune