HDx00 and HEVC video

[Taddeusz]

I forgot to mention hardware assisted decoding and encoding like Intel QuickSync.

[sacrament055]

Originally Posted by Taddeusz

Either one. I've actually tried playback on a full client. As long as you have a compatible codec playback works.

I haven't tried in a while but my PC client had trouble playing back 4k video files that played fine in windows media player on the same PC. Same file played back fine on the miniclient on Shield TV.

[Taddeusz]

Originally Posted by sacrament055

I haven't tried in a while but my PC client had trouble playing back 4k video files that played fine in windows media player on the same PC. Same file played back fine on the miniclient on Shield TV.

I was just playing a 1080p video.

[mdnttoker]

whenever I have content encoded in HEVC I just load up a PLEX client in my living room instead of the Sage client.

not ideal but it works

[wayner]

Originally Posted by mdnttoker

whenever I have content encoded in HEVC I just load up a PLEX client in my living room instead of the Sage client.

not ideal but it works

That's very true. And more and more TVs have smart functionality built in. I needed a new 43" TV for my office and I bought a relatively cheap TV from BB that had Roku built in. I still have my HD200 hooked up to it to use SageTV but I also installed the Plex for Roku app and can use that if I need it. And it also can do Netflix, Amazon Video, etc.

But SageTV is still way better for watching recorded TV , especially in the way that I watch sports with lots of skipping.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by wayner

That's very true. And more and more TVs have smart functionality built in. I needed a new 43" TV for my office and I bought a relatively cheap TV from BB that had Roku built in. I still have my HD200 hooked up to it to use SageTV but I also installed the Plex for Roku app and can use that if I need it. And it also can do Netflix, Amazon Video, etc.

But SageTV is still way better for watching recorded TV , especially in the way that I watch sports with lots of skipping.

Ultimately, I wonder if if the future investment into sagetv shouldn't be to simply maintain a server backend with a web ui for configuration, and then invest into building integrations for KODI, Plex, or Emby.

[SHS]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Ultimately, I wonder if if the future investment into sagetv shouldn't be to simply maintain a server backend with a web ui for configuration, and then invest into building integrations for KODI, Plex, or Emby.

I haven't try Kodi in many years as I wasn't a fan of it as it was a nightmare to configuring and as for Plex, or Emby they are both so bad at Intelligent Scheduling/Search/Recording it ain't funny even NextPVR dose better job at this LoL but none of them even come close to SageTV, I still don't have Mark Watched in any of them along with host other option that only in SageTV.
But SageTV could used a few of there options

It really sad that Google doesn't take an interest in doing cord cutting market when they first bought SageTV being if they had modernize it like they did with Google Fiber TV just think of where it would been now on top of the world.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Ultimately, I wonder if if the future investment into sagetv shouldn't be to simply maintain a server backend with a web ui for configuration, and then invest into building integrations for KODI, Plex, or Emby.

You are probably right but none of those are anywhere near as good as SageTV for playing back sports where you want to be skipping ahead all of the time - and that is my main use case.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by wayner

You are probably right but none of those are anywhere near as good as SageTV for playing back sports where you want to be skipping ahead all of the time - and that is my main use case.

I agree, but that's where I say, maybe the investment there should be to enhance Emby or Maybe Kodi (Plex wouldn't be an option).

[sacrament055]

If Sage's functionality could be incorporated into Kodi that may be my best case scenario.

I could see that attracting more people to SageTV as a backend and could broaden its appeal.

Kodi seems to playback whatever I throw at it and runs on a lots of different hardware types.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by sacrament055

If Sage's functionality could be incorporated into Kodi that may be my best case scenario.

I could see that attracting more people to SageTV as a backend and could broaden its appeal.

Kodi seems to playback whatever I throw at it and runs on a lots of different hardware types.

I haven't used Kodi much in recent years, but does it work properly in a client-server architecture now? Years ago it didn't, so that didn't work as well in some ways as SageTV or Plex that were pure client-server. For every client you had to do a full config which was a pain.

[sacrament055]

Originally Posted by wayner

I haven't used Kodi much in recent years, but does it work properly in a client-server architecture now? Years ago it didn't, so that didn't work as well in some ways as SageTV or Plex that were pure client-server. For every client you had to do a full config which was a pain.

I don't have a centralized Kodi solution but if SageTV could be incorporated it could potentially handle the centralized server functionality. Configuration would still need to be done on a per device basis.

[oldfolkie]

I have Kodi set up using a central database (MariaDB) and it works great - https://kodi.wiki/view/MySQL/Setting_up_MySQL. I have the DB on my SageTV server, which also has most of my media. I access it from two different Nvidia Shield TVs and an Amazon Cube TV. Configuration per client was actually pretty easy--it just involves copying a couple files to each client (so that they point to the server).

Kodi keeps track of watched status and progress across the clients, plays everything (including x265), with a tweak of the .ini works with comskip - https://kodi.wiki/view/Edit_decision_list.

One thing I love about it is that it keeps the various TV series that I'm currently watching front and center so that I can just click on one to go directly to the next episode.

It would be great to have SageTV as a back-end recording engine for Kodi. I'm currently using the SageTV add-on, but it's pretty spare and it only works with Java 7.