Will Sage work with DNLA ?

[bkbonner]

Try: Twonkymedia for your streaming needs or look up the Playstation 3 Media server (PMS). They're running a sale through 12/31.

[motobarsteward]

For Christmas, I got a Panasonic 46G15 Plasma (with DLNA) and a PS3 Slim (with DLNA but no Linux @!##. I have spent quite a lot of time playing with various DLNA servers as I'd like to stop using SageTV because I don't want a PS3 and a PC/media extender in the living room. I also bought PlayTV for the PS3.
It appears to me that SageTV could provide all the transcoding required to stream to my PS3/TV and also to my other UPNP renderes (like my Windows Mobile and other PCs) built into the PlaceShifter. PS3MediaServer is good for streaming to the PS3 and has a good go at doing DVD as well but is far from stable and I am having trouble getting it to stream to my phone or even XBMC on other windows PCs. TwonkyMedia is more stable but less feature rich and does not treat a collection of VOBs in a VIDEO_TS as one file (you end up have to load up and play each one!).

Where SageTV wins is that it works, it is easy to set up and it allows media to be played on may platforms.

Where is fails is that it can't run on a PS3 or on my TV because it does work as a DLNA server.

I think the way forward is by enhancing the nielm's Web Interface.

I had a play with the Nero Home Media software and that allows you to watch live TV on the PS3 but not DVDs.

This post is a bit of a mind dump. I'm not asking any questions or making a point. I am just stimulating discussion on this subject.

[Fuzzy]

Just about any DLNA server software should be able to serve up the SageTV recordings. The only thing missing is presenting them in a meaningful way (the Sage filenames are far from ideal). That said, I don't think I'd ever give up the Sage interface and go to a 'filesystem' view of my media.

[hossnine]

This thread is a bit dated but there are valid points being made and what appears to me as resistance to change. SageTV has a great product and the media extenders are very nice BUT many folks want to put together a complete media solution that is moderately easy to install and configure (think of average users and not techies) and works with the devices that they currently own (new TVs, PS3, XBOX, BD players, iPhones, etc). They want to get this from a single company. They don't want to have to find, buy, then figure out how to make 5, 10, 15 separate apps play together.

A perfect example of this is a guide that MissingRemote put together for installing SageTV (http://www.missingremote.com/guide/i...ng-sagetv-v7-0). Just for the main SageTV install the guile lists installing SageTV AND Java JRE, Virtual Clone Drive, AC3 filter, ffdshow. That is 4 separate applications and then depending on your remote set up you might have to install other products. And for all this the user gets a very good media experience on 1 computer. To extend the viewing experience to say a DLNA capable BD player in the living room you either have to bypass the player and buy SageTV HD Theater 300 media extender for $150 (which happens to be more than the price for a decent DLNA capable BD player) or find a DLNA software solution (such as Serviio, TVersity, etc).

Look, I get it that Sage doesn't want to loose the revenue presented from Placeshifter licenses and extenders but DLNA is here and is going to cut into it whether they want it to or not. Placeshifter license revenue can be preserved by making/keeping it better than other solutions (make it better than DLNA for streaming to other PCs/iPods, etc). And extenders are still great for situations where the user has older HD or non-HD devices.

The point is that the first company that steps up to the plate and offers a comprehensive solution (SageTV w/Placeshifting AND DLNA support on all the popular codec/container formats) that can be installed by the average user is going to win and win big. Microsoft isn't going to do it as they've become too political and won't support too many of the popular codecs and containers. There is an interesting GPL based solution called Amahi coming that is trying to accomplish this but they have a long way to go. I just hope Sage steps up before someone else.