Future Meeting? (MythTV)

[Jared Watkins]

Travis Roy wrote:

> I was talking to Ben Scott about this and brought up doing a meeting 
> about this and he seemed interested so I thought I would put a feeler 
> out to see who would be interested.

Though it runs only on windows... check out one called Sagetv 
http://www.sage.tv/

I just started testing it out this week with their 15 day demo but it 
seems very cool...  one of the differences with this is that it uses a 
client/server model... so you can have multiple servers recording and 
storing content with mpeg encoding hardware..  and multiple 
software-only clients that can stream live tv or stored content from the 
servers (which includes music and movies you already have).  Also.. it 
records everything in simple mpeg formats so it's easy to burn something 
off to disk if you want to save it. 

The best part is that the software is inexpensive. Which is good 
considering the cost of the mpeg encoding hardware.  One thing I'd like 
to try is using multiple usb attached encoders to one server as a 
directivo replacement... it is supposed to support that.

I've looked at Mythtv before... and it seemed like too much work and too 
little benefit compared to the directivo I already had... this sagetv 
looks to beat them both out.

Jared