![]() |
|
SageTV Software Discussion related to the SageTV application produced by SageTV. Questions, issues, problems, suggestions, etc. relating to the SageTV software application should be posted here. (Check the descriptions of the other forums; all hardware related questions go in the Hardware Support forum, etc. And, post in the customizations forum instead if any customizations are active.) |
![]() |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread | Display Modes |
#1
|
||||
|
||||
Client: Does It Work From Remote Location?
I've got 'Shifter working from afar but, AFIK, it does not play movies that have been ripped to DVD-like folders on the server.
Client does do them, but will it work from a remote location?
__________________
Server: SageTV 9, Windows 10, i5 NUC Clients: HD200*3 over Cat5e Ethernet + 1 slightly flakey HD 300 + 1 HD200 remote at another residence Plugins: (none yet, looking for recommendations) Storage: NetGear Ultra-6 NAS 10 TB total w/dual redundancy. Plus 5tb QNAP for RecordedTV. Capture: 3 Silicon Dust HomeRun tuner boxes (6 tuners total) Program Source: OTA antenna |
#2
|
||||
|
||||
Short answer: no. Placeshifter is the remote client. SageTV Client is designed for local LAN use only.
You can use a VPN to fake Client into thinking it's running locally, but because the UI runs on the client computer, UI performance will be painfully limited by your connection bandwidth as it tries to access the media database remotely. (Whereas with Placeshifter, the UI runs on the server and all DB access happens there; only the screen updates are remoted.)
__________________
-- Greg |
#3
|
||||
|
||||
That and unless you've got about a 10Mbps (up) internet pipe you won't actually be able to play anything anyway.
|
#4
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
Is there a gotcha lurking in that idea?
__________________
Server: SageTV 9, Windows 10, i5 NUC Clients: HD200*3 over Cat5e Ethernet + 1 slightly flakey HD 300 + 1 HD200 remote at another residence Plugins: (none yet, looking for recommendations) Storage: NetGear Ultra-6 NAS 10 TB total w/dual redundancy. Plus 5tb QNAP for RecordedTV. Capture: 3 Silicon Dust HomeRun tuner boxes (6 tuners total) Program Source: OTA antenna |
#5
|
||||
|
||||
I'd go MKV over mpeg program stream, better substream (subtitle, audio track) support as well as chapters.
|
#6
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
Sounds like you are using it - so maybe it's progressed?
__________________
Server: SageTV 9, Windows 10, i5 NUC Clients: HD200*3 over Cat5e Ethernet + 1 slightly flakey HD 300 + 1 HD200 remote at another residence Plugins: (none yet, looking for recommendations) Storage: NetGear Ultra-6 NAS 10 TB total w/dual redundancy. Plus 5tb QNAP for RecordedTV. Capture: 3 Silicon Dust HomeRun tuner boxes (6 tuners total) Program Source: OTA antenna |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
So - Not a client, but an Extender can play ripped DVD remotely. Also, Slingbox tied to a client/extender is a viable option and provides a mobile platform too.
B
__________________
Running SageTV on unRAID via Docker Tuning handled by HDHR3-6CC-3X2 using OpenDCT |
#8
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
The response time for menu clicks is really slow and the custom remote control for HD100/200 leaves something tb desired. But I agree it is a usable setup. Could you elaborate on the "Remote Extender" reference? Implication seems tb that I could be in a hotel somewhere and hook the HD200 I brought with me into my server at home. Or am I just wishing?
__________________
Server: SageTV 9, Windows 10, i5 NUC Clients: HD200*3 over Cat5e Ethernet + 1 slightly flakey HD 300 + 1 HD200 remote at another residence Plugins: (none yet, looking for recommendations) Storage: NetGear Ultra-6 NAS 10 TB total w/dual redundancy. Plus 5tb QNAP for RecordedTV. Capture: 3 Silicon Dust HomeRun tuner boxes (6 tuners total) Program Source: OTA antenna |
#9
|
||||
|
||||
Yes, that's right. The HD200 supports a Placeshifter mode that can connect remotely over the Internet.
__________________
-- Greg |
#10
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
Gonna visit at a daughter at the Jersey Shore this Wednesday. Main problem is gonna be proximity of the ISP connection to the TV, but I've been there at home and gotten around it with a bridge. I'll take a spare HD200 down there and try hiding it somewhere that I can run an HDMI cable to the TV from - and then hope to mess up everybody's mind later on by firing up a movie....
__________________
Server: SageTV 9, Windows 10, i5 NUC Clients: HD200*3 over Cat5e Ethernet + 1 slightly flakey HD 300 + 1 HD200 remote at another residence Plugins: (none yet, looking for recommendations) Storage: NetGear Ultra-6 NAS 10 TB total w/dual redundancy. Plus 5tb QNAP for RecordedTV. Capture: 3 Silicon Dust HomeRun tuner boxes (6 tuners total) Program Source: OTA antenna |
#11
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
I still don't waste my time converting since folders for DVD and BD work just fine for me (I don't have enough away-from-home use for placeshifter, or the outbound bandwidth to use it without huge PQ loss). What I have done is played with ripping individual episodes (actually upconverting to 1080p) and stuffing that in an MKV container, which seems to work fine, at least locally. |
#12
|
||||
|
||||
That still won't get you DVD folder playback support, as it is still limited to placeshifter's capabilities.
MakeMKV does a really good job of ripping DVD's to MKV (also can be pointed to your already ripped DVD folders).
__________________
Buy Fuzzy a beer! (Fuzzy likes beer) unRAID Server: i7-6700, 32GB RAM, Dual 128GB SSD cache and 13TB pool, with SageTVv9, openDCT, Logitech Media Server and Plex Media Server each in Dockers. Sources: HRHR Prime with Charter CableCard. HDHR-US for OTA. Primary Client: HD-300 through XBoxOne in Living Room, Samsung HLT-6189S Other Clients: Mi Box in Master Bedroom, HD-200 in kids room |
#13
|
|||
|
|||
Granted, I haven't tried it in a while but it definitely worked for me when I had fios. B
__________________
Running SageTV on unRAID via Docker Tuning handled by HDHR3-6CC-3X2 using OpenDCT |
#14
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
But I think it had something to do with the ripping/conversion being a multi-stage process - as opposed to just firing up DvdShrink and winding up with a usable end product.
__________________
Server: SageTV 9, Windows 10, i5 NUC Clients: HD200*3 over Cat5e Ethernet + 1 slightly flakey HD 300 + 1 HD200 remote at another residence Plugins: (none yet, looking for recommendations) Storage: NetGear Ultra-6 NAS 10 TB total w/dual redundancy. Plus 5tb QNAP for RecordedTV. Capture: 3 Silicon Dust HomeRun tuner boxes (6 tuners total) Program Source: OTA antenna |
#15
|
||||
|
||||
Ahh, yeah.. makemkv is your friend then.
__________________
Buy Fuzzy a beer! (Fuzzy likes beer) unRAID Server: i7-6700, 32GB RAM, Dual 128GB SSD cache and 13TB pool, with SageTVv9, openDCT, Logitech Media Server and Plex Media Server each in Dockers. Sources: HRHR Prime with Charter CableCard. HDHR-US for OTA. Primary Client: HD-300 through XBoxOne in Living Room, Samsung HLT-6189S Other Clients: Mi Box in Master Bedroom, HD-200 in kids room |
#16
|
||||
|
||||
MakeMKV is great.. I mostly use it for episodic DVDs. Ive ripped some of my HD-DVDs with it as well.
Ive had a couple issues where it couldn't rip, tho I don't use AnyDVD or anything like that either. |
#17
|
||||
|
||||
AnyDVD-HD, with MakeMKV, has worked for everything I need... The movies I want menus for, I just copy the folders over from the disc.. those where I only want the movie, or TV show discs, I use MakeMKV.
__________________
Buy Fuzzy a beer! (Fuzzy likes beer) unRAID Server: i7-6700, 32GB RAM, Dual 128GB SSD cache and 13TB pool, with SageTVv9, openDCT, Logitech Media Server and Plex Media Server each in Dockers. Sources: HRHR Prime with Charter CableCard. HDHR-US for OTA. Primary Client: HD-300 through XBoxOne in Living Room, Samsung HLT-6189S Other Clients: Mi Box in Master Bedroom, HD-200 in kids room |
#18
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
The rip went ok ("Gladiator"), but playback doesn't seem tb in the cards. First time I click it in the Videos list, it starts playing - as if I had ripped "Main Movie", but if I close it I can't play it again (just flashes on the screen and closes) until I mark it "Watched". Jumping forward advances the clock/progress bar, but the video never happens. Finally, PlaceShifter has hung twice already and had tb killed via TaskMan both times. Tried with and without 3D accelleration, but it didn't seem to make any diff. Probably doing something stupid - one of my many talents.... but what?
__________________
Server: SageTV 9, Windows 10, i5 NUC Clients: HD200*3 over Cat5e Ethernet + 1 slightly flakey HD 300 + 1 HD200 remote at another residence Plugins: (none yet, looking for recommendations) Storage: NetGear Ultra-6 NAS 10 TB total w/dual redundancy. Plus 5tb QNAP for RecordedTV. Capture: 3 Silicon Dust HomeRun tuner boxes (6 tuners total) Program Source: OTA antenna Last edited by PeteCress; 07-31-2010 at 07:30 PM. |
#19
|
||||
|
||||
Placeshifter isn't really the best place to try these things, it may very well be a transcoding issue.
__________________
Buy Fuzzy a beer! (Fuzzy likes beer) unRAID Server: i7-6700, 32GB RAM, Dual 128GB SSD cache and 13TB pool, with SageTVv9, openDCT, Logitech Media Server and Plex Media Server each in Dockers. Sources: HRHR Prime with Charter CableCard. HDHR-US for OTA. Primary Client: HD-300 through XBoxOne in Living Room, Samsung HLT-6189S Other Clients: Mi Box in Master Bedroom, HD-200 in kids room |
#20
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
But PlaceShifter is the only reason I'd use .MKV... so if it doesn't work there.... Bottom line: is anybody getting good playbacks of .MKV videos under PlaceShifter?
__________________
Server: SageTV 9, Windows 10, i5 NUC Clients: HD200*3 over Cat5e Ethernet + 1 slightly flakey HD 300 + 1 HD200 remote at another residence Plugins: (none yet, looking for recommendations) Storage: NetGear Ultra-6 NAS 10 TB total w/dual redundancy. Plus 5tb QNAP for RecordedTV. Capture: 3 Silicon Dust HomeRun tuner boxes (6 tuners total) Program Source: OTA antenna |
![]() |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|
![]() |
||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Add placeshift user from remote location | nixi | SageTV Placeshifter | 2 | 11-19-2009 05:44 PM |
SageTV Client H264 Playback lags and can't find correct registry location for buffer | pingmustard | SageTV Software | 0 | 12-17-2008 02:50 AM |
Is it possible to control a HD100 from a remote location? | bbenkstein | SageTV Media Extender | 3 | 06-30-2008 09:00 AM |
Failed to connect from remote location but connects at home | craigap | SageTV Placeshifter | 24 | 01-02-2008 03:33 PM |
Using client from remote location | saxroots | SageTV Recorder Software | 3 | 05-14-2004 05:00 AM |