Sage V5.0.1 - HD PVR - Install order?

[judoGTI]

Hello -

I finally upgraded my HTPC and bought a HD PVR from Sage. I have a few questions that I cannot find answers to via the search and manuals:

1) Will Sage v5.0.1 work with the HD PVR, it looks like it says versions 5+ will work, but I don't see anything specific telling me how to get TME to work with Sage... Since its an early version of 5x I just want to make sure I'm good to go.

2) Is there a specific order to installing things? I have a nVidia 9500 GT card and plan to purchase PureVideo to get the most out of the card. Is the order of installing products important? First SageTV, second HD PVR/TME, third nVidia PureVideo?

Thanks for any advice, right now I have a fresh XP SP2 install ready to go and I just want to make sure I do things in the best possible way from the start.

[evilpenguin]

You're going to need to upgrade to the latest version of Sage (6.5) to get HD-PVR functionality.

[paulbeers]

Technically it was added with 6.4.X, but you are correct it won't work with 5.X.

[judoGTI]

Thanks for the replies. I will upgrade to 6.5 tonight

What about install order? Does it matter? Will using PureVideo HD still help me out in getting a good picture quality from the H.264 files the HD-PVR will be creating?

Thanks for the help!

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by judoGTI

Thanks for the replies. I will upgrade to 6.5 tonight

What about install order? Does it matter? Will using PureVideo HD still help me out in getting a good picture quality from the H.264 files the HD-PVR will be creating?

Thanks for the help!

if you mean the nVidia PureVideo HD decoder it is an mpeg2 only decoder. It won't help with h.264 files. Cyberlink PowerDVD 7 or 8 or 9, Arcsoft TME or CoreAVC will do h.264 files. If you mean Puevideo HD as in acceleration on a video card it will depend on what video card you have. But it could help with hardware acceleration of h.264 files.

Gerry

[judoGTI]

Originally Posted by gplasky

if you mean the nVidia PureVideo HD decoder it is an mpeg2 only decoder. It won't help with h.264 files. Cyberlink PowerDVD 7 or 8 or 9, Arcsoft TME or CoreAVC will do h.264 files. If you mean Puevideo HD as in acceleration on a video card it will depend on what video card you have. But it could help with hardware acceleration of h.264 files.

Gerry

Ok Gerry, now you have me utterly confused . With Sage I would only be able to use one or the other, either PureVideoHD OR ArcSoft for a decoder (in Sage Setup->Detailed Settings->Video) Right? So when you gave me the explanation above you made it seem like I could use both at once? How could I use the PureVideoHD to help with the hardware acceleration AND use the ArcSoft to decode the files?

Sorry for my ignorance I appreciate the answers though.

[gplasky]

nVidia Purevideo decoder only decodes mpg2 files (not h.264) and can take advantage of acceleration on your video card. nVidia refers to PureVideo HD as those hardware accelerations that are on their video cards. Arcsoft TME would be used for your h.264 recordings from an HD-PVR. This too can take advantage of hardware acceleration on select video cards. (And Arcsoft can also decode mpg2 files) Confused enough?

Gerry