AverTV Stereo

[SYL]

I installed the trial version of SageRecorder and it doesn't recognize my AverTVtuner card. Can anyone help me solve this problem? I am running Windows XP

[jmeeks]

SageRecorder only supports hardware encoding cards. Looking up the AverTV, indicates all their cards are S/W encoding.

[SYL]

Need a little help. What does that mean? I'm an amateur with PVRs. Thanks

[jmeeks]

Sorry, Hardware encoding means the encoding process (the algorythm's that compress the signal with a mathematical formula) occurs entirely on board the card such as the Hauppauge PVR250 instead of the PC's CPU.

This configuration allows for a more robust system, rather than relying on the CPU to perform the operations.

See this page for a glossary and explanation of terms.
http://www.freytechnologies.com/glossary.html#capture

[SYL]

Thanks for the explanation. That really helped. I am concluding that Sage listens to the output "pipe" from the board and cannot be altered to listen to a different "pipe"- software output. Total bummer.

I guess I can pack my Aver card and go get a different one that does hardware encoding.

Again, thanks for your help.

[Narflex]

Sage's architecture is fully capable of listening to different 'pipes'. We even support doing capture across a network. There's even a plugin architecture so someone could implement this if they wanted....but no ones been interested yet.

[SYL]

Great. First question, where is the plugin? Second question, suggestions on the implemenation. I'm certainly willing to try but need a little help on the requirements, clues, etc. Thanks

[Narflex]

The way it works is by emulating the "Network Encoder" feature that SageTV supports. A "Network Encoder" is a capture device that SageTV controls using TCP/IP. I've posted the protocol on here a few times, if you can't find it let me know. What you would need to do is write an application that contains a TCP/IP server that responds to the commands in the protocol, and then controls the capture hardware appropriately.

Network encoders are also described a little more in the Customizations section of our website.

[SYL]

Thank you very much for the help everyone. I really appreciate it. This has made my PVR learning experience much more pleasent and rewarding.

One last note, Sage products are great. They are so easy to install and use.