SweetSpot card from

[bjkiller]

I found card that support RGB inputs very userful for europian devices with SCART.

Do this card is compatible with SageTV software?

http://www.pluggedin.tv/SweetSpot-Vi...c=2&category=2

http://www.pixelmagicsystems.com/pro...pdi_deluxe.htm

# Up to 8 video connections!
# 1 x 26-Pin Parallel Digital Interface (PDI)
# 1 x RGB (RGBS, RGsB)
# 1 x Component (Y,Pb,Pr)
# 2 x S-Video
# 7 x Composite
# Optional Dual SDI input expansion module now available to allow connection to external SDI sources

This is answer from their support:
http://www.pixelmagicforum.com/forum...ead.php?t=2511

[Wheemer]

You can view the list of compatible card on the main site. Also there is a trial for you to test and makes sure.

But of course this card is not supported.

Sage was designed for use with hardware encoders, although it may work with software encoders too, YMMV.

[Hyperbaric]

As my sig suggests, I have the Sweetspot RGB card. the capture quality is top-notch, and works particularly well with Dscaler.

However, I have intractable issues with stuttering using this card with Sage. Have to run Sage in 'fair' quality.. which is quite poor... to make panning scenes bearable. This is with an AGP vid card and a P4. The Hauppage freeview Nova-T PCI card I have is also software compression I believe, but does a much cleaner job with Sage.

Thinking of going down the Cielplus with Sky digibox route as mentioned on another thread.... just as soon as someone has it working with Sage.

[Lucas]

The Sweetspot under SageTV is definetely handled in the generic software compression mode and as such, in scenes with lots of motion, like camera pans, and in higher qualities, the CPU needs to be pretty beefy to handle it all.

The Nova-T is a DVB card and the signal that comes through it is already in Mpeg2 so no compression needs to or is performed hardware or software wise. The mpeg2 video stream is recorded to disk and displayed by SageTV as it comes from the provider.

[bjkiller]

Originally Posted by Hyperbaric

As my sig suggests, I have the Sweetspot RGB card. the capture quality is top-notch, and works particularly well with Dscaler.

However, I have intractable issues with stuttering using this card with Sage. Have to run Sage in 'fair' quality.. which is quite poor... to make panning scenes bearable. This is with an AGP vid card and a P4. The Hauppage freeview Nova-T PCI card I have is also software compression I believe, but does a much cleaner job with Sage.

Thinking of going down the Cielplus with Sky digibox route as mentioned on another thread.... just as soon as someone has it working with Sage.

Hyperbaric, did you tried to play with http://www.nolberger.se/Sage/GraphRecorder/Default.htm

[Hyperbaric]

Originally Posted by bjkiller

Hyperbaric, did you tried to play with http://www.nolberger.se/Sage/GraphRecorder/Default.htm

Have just been trying it (thanks for the link) but not had it working yet with the existing card - looks like it would be just the ticket for the Cielplus once I figure it out

[Hyperbaric]

Originally Posted by Lucas

The Sweetspot under SageTV is definetely handled in the generic software compression mode and as such, in scenes with lots of motion, like camera pans, and in higher qualities, the CPU needs to be pretty beefy to handle it all.

The Nova-T is a DVB card and the signal that comes through it is already in Mpeg2 so no compression needs to or is performed hardware or software wise. The mpeg2 video stream is recorded to disk and displayed by SageTV as it comes from the provider.

CPU never gets above 40% utilisation even on highest quality... it is a PCI capture card and AGP gfx card though, so I was thinking the data transfer might be too much

[bjkiller]

Originally Posted by Hyperbaric

CPU never gets above 40% utilisation even on highest quality... it is a PCI capture card and AGP gfx card though, so I was thinking the data transfer might be too much

Check with dscaller - there some stats page - to see card performance.

Also may be good idea to use VGA card with MPEG2 hardware encoder. may it's will be free CPU on mpeg2 encoding.

[Hyperbaric]

Originally Posted by bjkiller

Check with dscaller - there some stats page - to see card performance.

Also may be good idea to use VGA card with MPEG2 hardware encoder. may it's will be free CPU on mpeg2 encoding.

Had a look at the stats screen in Dscaler - zero dropped fields when set to weave without any filters applied. CPU at 90%.

Just wish someone else would try a Cielplus interface first and report on set-up / PQ issues!