Does it play rmvb?

[batmon]

Thinking about buying one. Few questions:

1) I have many rmvb files. Does it play rmvb?
2) I have a HDHomerun. When I want to watch live TV, does it connect direct to HDHomerun or I need a SageTV PC and then stream from the PC? If yes, does it require lots of horsepower to stream live TV from my SageTV PC?

Thanks.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by batmon

Thinking about buying one. Few questions:

1) I have many rmvb files. Does it play rmvb?

No idea... I don't even think i've ever seen one of those. They seem to contain H.264 video, which the HD200 has no problem with, at least according to wikipedia, but I'm not sure if sage knows what to do with that container.

Originally Posted by batmon

2) I have a HDHomerun. When I want to watch live TV, does it connect direct to HDHomerun or I need a SageTV PC and then stream from the PC? If yes, does it require lots of horsepower to stream live TV from my SageTV PC?

The HD200 by itself can play videos on your network shares. It cannot play directly from a tuner. That WOULD require teh SageTV software. That said, if all you are doing is capturing from the HDHomeRun, and Serving that video to the HD200, it takes practically no CPU at all. The HD200 does all the heavy lifting. Playing back the Recording on the PC would require some level of cpu power, or at least decent gpu acceleration.

[batmon]

Asus O!Play can play rmvb.

http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Play-Medi.../dp/B002MCZJ3C

Will, the SageTV software detect HDHomeRun as digital tuners. So I assume it cannot stream direct from HDHomeRun, it will need to stream from a SageTV PC server then... So how does it work? It will actually allow me to change channel and everything too?

Thanks.

[nebulink]

Maybe Sage will come up with a box like this:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/MediaGate-...ional/12961384

I supports DTS and RMVB plus everything else except Sage.