ErsatzTom
12-08-2003, 06:38 PM
Hi! I just purchased SageTV and ordered some hauppauge pvr250 tuners and I'm just sort of getting ready to experiment. I was hoping, before I really settle on how I'm going to put all this together, that I could get some clarification on a few things. Oh, and because it is going to take me a while to get this all together I'm really probably going to be starting off with V2 if that makes a difference for any of my questions.
First off, I was thinking that what I would do is build a SageTV server that would sit in my office with 3 or more pvr250 tuner cards and do basically nothing but record and stream content. Secondly, I want a STB for viewing SageTV content, DVD's, and playing PC games. Eventually, I would imagine we will have a couple of the Hauppauge MediaMVP's when we get our house built and from time to time I'll probably also use the client on one or more of my normal computers.
So, First: What do you guys think that the minimum config should be for the server. I was leaning toward an Athlon system since they seem to be a little cheaper... would a Athlon 2000+/256MB PC2700 (333MHz) DDR SDRAM system get the job done? I'd never be viewing tv on this box. It seems like with the hardware encoding on the pvr250's that the recording part wouldn't take much cpu but I wasn't sure about the streaming.
Secondly, for those of you with this sort of setup, is there any noticeable problems with using the client version over the network. All connections would be 100Mb ethernet. Are there noticeable delays? Is there functionality that can't be accessed through the client? If you have several streams going at once does it impact other lan traffic?
I'm less worried about the configuration of the STB since the hardware will be fast enough to play fairly modern games, I can't imagine that the client would cause any problems.
Also, many of our computers are Macs running OS X. Is there anyway to interact with SageTV on a Mac? Maybe with the upcoming web interface? Or, I think I remember reading that the MediaMVP port was fairly easy because it was mostly java?? If that is the case, is there any chance we might see a more portable version of the client at some point?
Thanks for your help!
First off, I was thinking that what I would do is build a SageTV server that would sit in my office with 3 or more pvr250 tuner cards and do basically nothing but record and stream content. Secondly, I want a STB for viewing SageTV content, DVD's, and playing PC games. Eventually, I would imagine we will have a couple of the Hauppauge MediaMVP's when we get our house built and from time to time I'll probably also use the client on one or more of my normal computers.
So, First: What do you guys think that the minimum config should be for the server. I was leaning toward an Athlon system since they seem to be a little cheaper... would a Athlon 2000+/256MB PC2700 (333MHz) DDR SDRAM system get the job done? I'd never be viewing tv on this box. It seems like with the hardware encoding on the pvr250's that the recording part wouldn't take much cpu but I wasn't sure about the streaming.
Secondly, for those of you with this sort of setup, is there any noticeable problems with using the client version over the network. All connections would be 100Mb ethernet. Are there noticeable delays? Is there functionality that can't be accessed through the client? If you have several streams going at once does it impact other lan traffic?
I'm less worried about the configuration of the STB since the hardware will be fast enough to play fairly modern games, I can't imagine that the client would cause any problems.
Also, many of our computers are Macs running OS X. Is there anyway to interact with SageTV on a Mac? Maybe with the upcoming web interface? Or, I think I remember reading that the MediaMVP port was fairly easy because it was mostly java?? If that is the case, is there any chance we might see a more portable version of the client at some point?
Thanks for your help!