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SageTV Media Extender Discussion related to any SageTV Media Extender used directly by SageTV. Questions, issues, problems, suggestions, etc. relating to a SageTV supported media extender should be posted here. Use the SageTV HD Theater - Media Player forum for issues related to using an HD Theater while not connected to a SageTV server. |
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Sage TV Media Extender?
Can someone tell me, does the SageTV media extender actually deliver the SageTV UI to your TV set or does is deliver the Hauppauge MVP UI to your TV set?
So I'm wondering if the device is just the MVP or does SageTV run something special on the Linux kernal? I'm trying to determine if the SageTV media extender capability is worth switching from BeyondTV to Sage for, or should I just buy the Hauppauge MVP and use it with BeyondTV. Thanks |
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You can either buy the offical media extender (which is just an MVP with a bundled extender license) or buy a regular MVP and a separate extender license. Either way, it's running the full SageTV UI on the extender/MVP. It doesn't look any different than the SageTV client running on a Windows PC.
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Also the video and the UI are both rendered using the MVP's hardware so it takes very little power from the computer to run. Many other solutions render the UI on the server.
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I can think of dozens of questions from just the basics I read here about SageTV ME. For example, how many concurrent users (TV's) can it stream to effectively? What is a reasonable hardware setup needed to stream 2 TV's? To stream to 3 TV's, 4 TV's and so on. Who has control of the scheduler when multiple people are trying to record shows. Can end users on TV's even schedule recordings? What happens to media content as it is being archived/removed/displayed by various users on SageTV ME's. How are these conflicts handled? What happens when one person tunes to a channel and the other person tunes to another channel? Who has ultimate control? Questions about this are endless... Last edited by joe123; 01-09-2006 at 06:42 PM. |
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The server usage would go up when the transcoding that was said to be in testing becomes available, but that would be for playing DivX or something, not MPEG2... since MPEG2 is played natively. Quote:
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Also, I have more questions to your answers. If you have multiple TV turners on the SageTV server, can each person on their SageTV Media Extender tune to different shows? If one tuner has control of my TimeWarner box with the IR thing controling it, can I specify which tunner I want to use? I mean, the questions are endless here. |
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Other than how many MVPs you can use, what you are asking applies to any client -- the MVP is really just another type of client. With multiple tuners, multiple clients can watch live tv... but again: it is first come, first serve. SageTV automatically chooses the tuner according to what channel you want to watch. If the channel is available on multiple tuners, the 'first' tuner is used. You can change the tuner priority via a property setting, if you wish. If the next client wants to watch a different channel, they can do so if that channel is available on one of the remaining tuners.
But, after using SageTV for a while, many people decide that it is much simpler to watch prerecorded shows & ignore when things are actually airing. - Andy
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I think the key here (and it was said a couple of posts ago) is that the MVP acts like any other client. So, if you have a question about how multiple MVPs work, it's the same as it would work with multiple Windows based SageTV clients. They work exactly the same.
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I have three mvp clients running and it's a wonderful thing.
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