TvEngine version 3.0
With the announcement of the final version 0.2 dman already mentioned that i'm working on the new tv engine.
So.. what can we expect from this new engine? here's a list:
- seperate front/backend
- supports multiple frontends
- analog/atsc/dvb-c/dvb-s/dvb-t support
- true mpeg-2 program stream timeshifting and recording
- multi tuner support of course
- epg / mhw grabbing right from the DVB stream
- network streaming via rtsp
- teletext grabbing
- ci / cam support for firedtv, twinhan and technotrend
- placeshifting
Some things are worth mentioning in more detail. For example the front/backend story. The new tvengine will run as a windows-service in the background. This means that it will keep running even if mp is stopped or when you are not logged in at all!!
But... thats not all. You can install the service on any machine you like. it does not need to run on the same pc as mediaportal. So for example you can have 3 htpc's with mediaportal on it and 1 pc which has 6 tuner cards. All 3 htpc's will be able to see & timeshift live tv over the network, do recordings etc etc and that all in true .mpg format
Another thing which is very nice is that the new engine auto-discovers new cards and is able to use them. There is no need anymore for an up-2-date capturecards.xml
So whats the timeline for this great stuff? Right now we released an internal beta for testing. Depending on how the tests go i hope to have a sneak-preview ready within lets say 1 month
