SageMCTuner - use a cablecard in Sage!

[stanger89]

Yeah, if you go with a crappy service provider. If you've got satellite the cost is less than half that.

As for no need for USB UIRT or fewer connections, wake me up when something interesting happens. My USB UIRT is flawless and all my connections are burried in a utility room where nobody ever sees them.

Wake me up when there's a solution for some service other than the worst in the country (which is my only alternative to satellite).

[Naylia]

I wouldn't care except for the fact that a tree is blocking my line of sight to the satellite....stupid nature...

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Naylia

I wouldn't care except for the fact that a tree is blocking my line of sight to the satellite....stupid nature...

Thankfully, we're more evolved than the trees, and have developed the chainsaw...

[SCPRedMage]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

Thankfully, we're more evolved than the trees, and have developed the chainsaw...

Unfortunately, this same evolution has given us "lawyers" and "property lines".

Not much to do when the tree is on a neighbor's property...

[stanger89]

Chainsaws aren't the only way we've evolved more than trees

http://www.solidsignal.com/cview.asp...tenna%20Towers

But seriously, there are always options.

[Naylia]

Nope, as a renter and not a homeowner I am limited by what I can do There's even this perfect little ledge above a maintenance shed adjacent to my patio that has perfect line of sight, but the complex's policy is that it must be on my patio and can not rise above the bottom of the deck of the apartment above me. Sat guy spent an hour trying to get it to work. He recommend I sneak one of the grounds crew some cash and have them trim a hole in the middle of the tree.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Naylia

Nope, as a renter and not a homeowner I am limited by what I can do There's even this perfect little ledge above a maintenance shed adjacent to my patio that has perfect line of sight, but the complex's policy is that it must be on my patio and can not rise above the bottom of the deck of the apartment above me. Sat guy spent an hour trying to get it to work. He recommend I sneak one of the grounds crew some cash and have them trim a hole in the middle of the tree.

okay, so yes, as a RENTER you don't have options. You're at the mercy of the landlord. but it's the landlord preventing you from having options, not the cable and sat companies.

On a somewhat related note, I've always wondered why more apartments aren't built with cable, and sat built-in. Properly multiswitched, you could ahve a couple well placed, large dishes, distributed to the whole complex. I would think the provider might chip in a bit to 'help out' with the system installation if it got them some extra subs.

[Naylia]

I never said it was the cable/sat companies...I was just moaning about not being able to have it

I had distributed satellite at a complex a couple years back. It was a mess because they kept remapping the channels on the time. So you'd go out of town and none of your recordings would be there because they moved around all the qam assignments while you were gone. They did this at least once to twice a month while I was there for a period of 6 months. I have no idea why...

[Fuzzy]

theres a difference between that, which was basically a local complex wide cable system, and distributing the sat signal to individual customers in the building.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by babgvant

you could probably run it off a nettop (or similar) w/ a 945G IGP, or maybe even virtualize w/ a USB DCT

SageMCTuner deletes the WTV/DVR-MS files when it's done so you wouldn't even need that much space.

In an earlier post someone asked about the minimum requirements for running MC and this was the answer. Any more insight? I have a copy of Windows7 laying around and some old hardware that is just begging to become a network encoder running SageMCTuner.

$399 for the Ceton is not cheap but it may be worth it.....

[Kirby]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

$399 for the Ceton is not cheap but it may be worth it.....

That's if you can even get one in a resonable amount of time. Arent there huge backorders on this and very little supply coming from asia? I would buy one right now if I could, tired of only having 2 tuners on my Tivo, need more tuners and dont want to expense of another tivo/fees.

[babgvant]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

In an earlier post someone asked about the minimum requirements for running MC and this was the answer. Any more insight? I have a copy of Windows7 laying around and some old hardware that is just begging to become a network encoder running SageMCTuner.

$399 for the Ceton is not cheap but it may be worth it.....

I can't say exactly, but the hit will be mostly IO. We ran a dual tuner test on an ION machine and while CPU was a bit high, it all worked fine.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by babgvant

I can't say exactly, but the hit will be mostly IO. We ran a dual tuner test on an ION machine and while CPU was a bit high, it all worked fine.

What do you think about an 800MHz Via C3? I would like to think that will work but my gut tells me it's just too slow if an ION with 2 recordings in progress has high CPU usage.

My other choice is a 1.3 GHz Celeron, that might be a better bet.

[babgvant]

I doubt that the C3 would be able to handl 4 streams, but it might. I didn't examine the root cause for the CPU usage on the ION much, just noted it and moved on

[tmiranda]

Am I correct in assuming that I do not need to install Sage on the machine that is running WMC? I just install Windows7, WMC and your nifty piece of software on one machine, connect it to the network and then my Sage server will be able to "see" another tuner that will appear as a network tuner?

[babgvant]

Yep. If it's the only tuner in the box you don't even need separate HW.

[tmiranda]

Thanks. My "production" server is XP based and has several tuners in it so one box won't fly.

It sounds easy enough to get going, I think it will be a lot harder to get my hands on a Ceton card.

[joe0628]

http://www.cannonpc.com/cetonstatus.html

According to this page, ceton claims that all backorders should be caught up by Thanksgiving.

So if this is an officially working solution, I will be ordering shortly.

[Fuzzy]

I certainly wouldn't call it 'official' anything. It is entirely dependent on how your provider is flagging your media. You could be very lucky, and just about everything gets flagged copy freely.. if not, though, this may be very troublesome for you.

[heffneil]

Anyone using this yet with sage successfully? I just got notification of my back order shipping. While i am excited i am nervous I just wAsted $400.

I want to use thew card to record premium channels and watch them with sage. Anyone care to share their working implementation.

Thanks

Neil