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Old 04-08-2006, 06:56 AM
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SageTV Client for MAC?
I am sure this has been spoken of before but maybe not recently.
I know there are various supported and unsupported client versions for SageTV at this time. I was thinking about getting my first Mac recently and this question obviously popped in my head. Has there ever been any plan for SageTV to be accessed on a LAN from a Mac (and now placeshifting too)?
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Old 04-14-2006, 05:31 PM
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I am sure this has been spoken of before but maybe not recently.
I know there are various supported and unsupported client versions for SageTV at this time. I was thinking about getting my first Mac recently and this question obviously popped in my head. Has there ever been any plan for SageTV to be accessed on a LAN from a Mac (and now placeshifting too)?

Wish someone from Sage would respond here. Andy -- Jeff? I think we would have a much better - and acceptable chance at getting support for the PlaceShifting client on the mac - as it relies on simply java and mplayer... which should be able to be compiled on the mac. For the interim - would love to see this work.
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Old 04-14-2006, 06:43 PM
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With the new Intel Mac Mini's out there I wish they would have a full blown supported client. 600 bucks for a client that is small and quiet and can play HD is an awesome setup.

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Old 04-14-2006, 06:46 PM
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With the new Intel Mac Mini's out there I wish they would have a full blown supported client. 600 bucks for a client that is small and quiet and can play HD is an awesome setup.

-Matthew
I would love Placeshifter for my PowerPC OS X laptop. I guess you can always boot into WinXP now with the Intel Mac Mini and run a full blown client.
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Old 04-14-2006, 07:22 PM
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It would probably take a bunch of work, but I'd bet that the Linux version could be made to work on the Intel macs running OSX.
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Old 04-14-2006, 09:19 PM
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I don't know if it's a bunch of work...mplayer runs on Mac OSX now.

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Old 04-15-2006, 05:33 AM
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I would love this too. I have tried running place shifter inside Parallels on my MBP, I get audio no video. Since I travel with this machine, I will be using Boot Camp to access content while away, but it would sure be nice to not have to dual boot.

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Old 04-18-2006, 10:25 AM
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Sign me up as well. Sage Client for the Mac would be the one thing stopping me from moving my main HTPC client over to the Mac - that Mini is just too sweet.
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Old 04-18-2006, 02:39 PM
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Another Java OS X update.

Via Software Updates:
Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Release 4 delivers improved reliability and compatibility for Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 on Mac OS X v10.4.5 and later. This release includes J2SE version 1.5.0_06. With this update J2SE 5.0 becomes the preferred Java version, superseding Java 1.4.2. Java 1.4.2 is still installed on your machine, but applications will run with J2SE 5.0 unless they specifically request Java 1.4.2.


http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/18580
mplayer is already available for OS X in Universal Binary form for Intel/PPC.

Please make it happen. We've already got up to 6 OTA/QAM HDTV tuners for EyeTV, but I miss the smarter scheduling and scheduling via OSD.
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Old 04-18-2006, 03:21 PM
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Sign me up as well. Sage Client for the Mac would be the one thing stopping me from moving my main HTPC client over to the Mac - that Mini is just too sweet.
Agree!!!!! If I can (with little effort) get a mac mini as a client then you can mark me down for 2 client licenses right away please.
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Old 04-18-2006, 03:30 PM
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Well, you can make the Mac Mini your client right now - just run Windows on it
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Old 04-18-2006, 04:03 PM
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you mean dual booting with boot camp? Hmmmm... I wonder if it would be better than a Sage Media extender?
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Old 04-18-2006, 04:31 PM
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I would think so - as much as I love my mvp, it's still not an htpc. I do plenty on my htpc that I can't do with the mvp. But the Mac Mini looks like the ideal htpc client - dvi out, digital audio out, if I can run Windows on it, and therefore Sage, XLobby, Zoom Player, Foobar, connect to my Windows servers, it's awesome. But it would be interesting to see a Sage client for OSX, so maybe I wouldn't need to run Windows on it, I'd just use different (Mac) htpc software for the dvd end of it, in tandem with Sage for the Mac. All sorts of possibilities, though, now that the Mac runs Windows. The Mac may just prove to be the best Wintel box out there
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Old 04-18-2006, 08:39 PM
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Well, you can make the Mac Mini your client right now - just run Windows on it
Except Windows doesn't support recording from 6 HDTV tuners and Windows sucks.
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Old 04-18-2006, 08:41 PM
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Well, you can make the Mac Mini your client right now - just run Windows on it
It also costs $150 bucks more....

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Old 04-18-2006, 08:49 PM
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Except Windows doesn't support recording from 6 HDTV tuners and Windows sucks.
But it does run the Sage client

Seriously, how do you record 6 HDTV tuners on a Mac?
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Old 04-18-2006, 08:55 PM
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Seriously, how do you record 6 HDTV tuners on a Mac?
You use 3 EyeTV 500s, 3 MigliaHDMinis, and EyeTV 2.1.x. Schedule and enjoy. I've got 4 running now. (Technically up to 12 simultaneous recordings via QAM)

There's also D-VHS Cap for firewire for a 7th/13th recording.
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Old 04-18-2006, 11:33 PM
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Except Windows doesn't support recording from 6 HDTV tuners and Windows sucks.
You must have better TV out where you are... I don't think I've ever recorded more than 3 shows at one time in my life... I used to have 4 capture cards in my Windows rig and I yanked one of them out since it never got used.

Well, get on the horn to your boy Steve and tell him to offer the Mac OS on hardware other than their over priced, locked down selection of Apple platforms then! Dell I'm sure would be more than too happy to offer it as an option. It's easy to get all upity about the stability of your platform when you only have to test 3 or 4 configurations in the known universe. He wants to wander out of the pretty-looking hardware boutique and kick it up a notch, I'm all ears and credit card...
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Old 04-19-2006, 04:37 AM
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You use 3 EyeTV 500s, 3 MigliaHDMinis, and EyeTV 2.1.x. Schedule and enjoy. I've got 4 running now. (Technically up to 12 simultaneous recordings via QAM)

There's also D-VHS Cap for firewire for a 7th/13th recording.
But what is your source? Does it just capture over the air hdtv like Sage does? Or can you actually capture a component video source, e.g. a digital cable box?
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Old 04-19-2006, 10:45 AM
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OTA/QAM with EyeTV2.

Virtual D-VHS/AVCCAP/iRecord can all do firewire cable non-5c/D-VHS and also control the cable box and D-VHS hardware.

Component capture cards are available for PCI-X and PCI-e, but they're expensive.
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