HD200's & SageMC eye candy

[SomeWhatLost]

Originally Posted by dgeezer

Brent,

You're always a voice of reason on the forums.I want to thank you for all your work on the sage tutorials and reviews.

+1 to that...

Originally Posted by dgeezer

I have read a little about BMT on the forums, but it just seems way too complex for me. I'm already a step ahead since I have jetty running for SJQ, but it was a major pain for me to understand and set up. I'm not complaining

why not complain? it's very therapeutic... fwiw, I technically was just venting, not ranting & raving... but when the first helpful post by a caring member of our happy society decides to call it ranting & raving, you just gotta go with it beside R&R is also very therapeutic...

as far as BMT goes, I would highly suggest trying it out... it actually works quite well... and it itself is not really that hard to setup, at least to get the basics working... not sure about the more advanced BMT settings/stuff as I haven't dug to deep yet...

[SomeWhatLost]

ignoring for a moment Fuzzy's excellent advice of maybe you shouldn't bother... here is where I am currently at:

the Must Have's from a UI point of view:

• SageMC
• Sage Movie Wall
• TVExpoler

and from a dependency/under the hood/behind the scenes/etc point of view:

• Jetty
• BMT
• SageTCPServer & GKusnick's Studio Tools (needed for CQC control of sage)
• AnyDVD (technically I don't have this integrated with Sage in anyway, I don't even have an optical drive on my SagePC...)
• ShowAnalyzer (I like it better than Comskip, not sure why, just do...)
• DirMon2

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by SomeWhatLost

ignoring for a moment Fuzzy's excellent advice of maybe you shouldn't bother... here is where I am currently at:

the Must Have's from a UI point of view:

• SageMC
• Sage Movie Wall
• TVExpoler

and from a dependency/under the hood/behind the scenes/etc point of view:

• Jetty
• BMT
• SageTCPServer & GKusnick's Studio Tools (needed for CQC control of sage)
• AnyDVD (technically I don't have this integrated with Sage in anyway, I don't even have an optical drive on my SagePC...)
• ShowAnalyzer (I like it better than Comskip, not sure why, just do...)
• DirMon2

more an fyi... SMW and TVE also require GKusnicks tools but they both bundle a copy of the required jar in their respective installation files (for importing the STVi correctly) so you dont need to do anything special...

The only comment i have really is i would look into using SJQ rather then DirMon2... i just switched over about 2 months ago... and while a rather complicated setup Slugger is phenomenal with documentation and setup instructions so it makes it a lot easier...

[SomeWhatLost]

could you explain some of the benefits of SJQ? I am not sure exactly what you would use it for? obviously it could kick off a comskip/showanalyzer, but it seems incredibly complicated/more work then dirmon, so I am guessing it has some other uses/benefits also?

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by SomeWhatLost

could you explain some of the benefits of SJQ? I am not sure exactly what you would use it for? obviously it could kick off a comskip/showanalyzer, but it seems incredibly complicated/more work then dirmon, so I am guessing it has some other uses/benefits also?

One is you can set it not to run on certain channels (ie showtime,hbo etc)

for me though I just use good old dirmon myself ou dvrms toolbox as you stated much easier to setup not as dynamic but much easier.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by SomeWhatLost

could you explain some of the benefits of SJQ? I am not sure exactly what you would use it for? obviously it could kick off a comskip/showanalyzer, but it seems incredibly complicated/more work then dirmon, so I am guessing it has some other uses/benefits also?

it is a generic scheduler for sage mediafiles (ie sage recorded content, or imported media). The big benefit of SJQ (over dirmnon2) is it can query the sage db when it is deciding what to do on a mediafile. For example it could call mediashrink to compress the mediafile only once the file has been archived, or watched. Getting more complicated (with some other hardware as well) it can detect when your hd-pvr fails and can call a bat file to reboot it. it can also kick off bmt from a commandline (when not using the commandline) if fanart doesnt exist. Basically it takes a mediafile, processes it against "rules" and then runs a command line tool on that mediafile...

If you only want to use it to process comskip then yes dirmon2 is easier to setup and works perfectly. If you want to do more external processing with your mediafiles then SJQ is the way to go.

Hope that helps (to muddy the waters just a little bit more )

[SomeWhatLost]

actually, that explains it perfectly...
but I think I will stick with dirmon... for now...