I know lots of people want to get Hauppauge’s HD-PVR to work with Media Center and according to GeekTonic where is now a neat hack to get to do just that:

“For those two of you who don’t know the significance of this, the Hauppauge HD-PVR allows you to take your cable box or satellite box and connect it to your computer to tune live and recorded TV to your media center.  [Read More about the Hauppauge HD-PVR here].  That includes HD, SD, encrypted or not thanks to the HD-PVR’s use of the analog hole.  The HD-PVR can take any component out and convert the analog stream into h.264 video with AC3 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound.”

The hack uses a application called DVBSBridge and the Brent recommends using it with Windows 7. Checkout the article for the download and full instructions

6 thoughts on “Get Hauppauge’s HD-PVR to work with Windows Media Center”
  1. @kingtone Let me know if you get guide data, I think that could be a problem in the US for all the channels.
    Do you have Sat or Cable?

  2. Anyone have any luck installing the DSVB Bridge beta. All I get is the same install error time and time again so I can’t use it.

  3. Has anyone tried to use the HD-PVR with Windows Media Encoder 9? I’ve been trying for 2 days to get this to work and can’t seem to figure it out. I’m pretty sure that I just don’t have the correct plugin installed, but its driving me nuts.

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