HDTV support

[Dekard]

Originally Posted by zoop

do you mean using a windows box as a network encoder just for the use of HD tuners? interesting, i think i saw on some thread somewhere that linux/windoze network encoder interaction is not yet complete... could be wrong though

/jer

At present this is working fine, afaik.

[Dekard]

Originally Posted by blade

I'm sure you know a lot more about it than I do. All I know is QAM isn't possible with Sage in windows, but it's supposed to be possible in linux. From what people have said, manufacturers just aren't making it available to 3rd parties in the windows drivers.

I don't know much about how network encoders work, but I just assumed that the card would need to be installed in the linux server in order to utilize its QAM capabilities. I may be wrong.

I have no idea if the linux server could properly handle HDTV through a windows network encoder. The only thing I'm concerned with is QAM support. If I were able to use anything else I'd just stick with a windows server.

Since we're both guessing... who wants to test it?

[Dekard]

Originally Posted by Dekard

Since we're both guessing... who wants to test it?

I just picked up a Ati HDTV wonder.. I'll post results here once I get a chance to learn somthing to post.

[zoop]

Originally Posted by Dekard

I just picked up a Ati HDTV wonder.. I'll post results here once I get a chance to learn somthing to post.

excellent, please do... i am considering purchasing a r5000-hd and am wondering if the sage linux version will be able to use it as a tuner... anyone using a r5000 yet?

/jer

[duhasst]

Originally Posted by Dekard

Since we're both guessing... who wants to test it?

I'd be happy to test dual HD Airstar-HD5000AV-PCI (3rd Gen Air2PC ATSC HD card). Currently, I'm running MythTV with 2 HD tuners as a server backend and I have a system running linux MythTV frontend that does all the playing. This runs pretty damn good, but I'm always looking for better. I've heard good reviews about SageTV and decided to take a look.

I've been looking at SageTV now that it has linux support and wanted to compare MythTV vs SageTV setup. A couple of issues. There is no way to "Try" SageTV in the linux version. Installing the trial version of Windows is like apples to oranges to comparison to see how setup and hardware works. The Airstar-HD5000 works both in Linux and Windows but you use the linux-dvb drivers and the Windows uses their driver. So, I'm having a hard time swallowing the $100 just to see if it works. The forum no one seems to have even 1 HD tuner working let alone 2 HD tuners. I can easily run 4 tuners by just plugging in 2 more cards into my MythTV box and the system will pick them up. It doesn't seem like SageTV is to this point yet and I would rather not be out of $100 if it doesn't work.

My end goal is to have a main server that is loaded with just HD tuners (probably 4 and SDTV isn't worth the effort. I've been watching everything in HD for over a year and its really hard to watch SDTV even DirecTV which is at least 480x480 minus their HD channels looks pretty bad) with massive amounts of storage (I'm close to this but just 2 tuners). Then I place players around the house where TV is watched (currently have 1, I'd probably add 1 to 2 more).

So, if anyone at SageTV is interested to have some hardware tested. I would be happy to help, but I would need a trial license of some sort. If it works I'd be happy to buy it, but not for just testing. Or if they can guarentee it would work I would buy it. =)

Keep up the great work it looks exciting. Competition is good even retail vs freeware. I'll be happy to pay for a better product.

-duhasst

[evilpenguin]

I was board over the weekend and I had a spare A180 laying around so I got a fedora core 5 build going where I could tune and capture QAM HDTV via the command line (tuning with azap and the known pid's and capturing by 'cat'ing the dvb device). With Sage's current experimental dvb support in linux do I have a prayer of it getting it setup within Sage or is it still a lost cause right now?