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2015-03-10, 21:18
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Wow I'm surprised no one has any thoughts?
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It is very awesome. IIRC, SageTV was a pretty nice product, and no one has been able to get it ever since 2011 when Google bought them, but they kept working on the software.
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There are of course other open source PVR backends already, but I also saw this posted to the mythtv mailing list and it is indeed good news.
It's always good news when a capable product is open sourced. Good stuff.
PS what OSes does Sage run on?
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Last I played with it Linux and Windows, However, Since the developer is coming from Google I wonder if we won't see some development source for google boxes as well. Currently I believe there is alot of Sage built into the Google Fiber Tv boxes.
Sage was one of the best I had ever used for managing recordings and Tuners, They also had a plugin system similar to Kodi. Sage also had a plugin for it that was a extremely handy Web Guide that allowed for streaming to other devices and more importantly for us the web guide setup was accessible to V.I. and allowed for us to control sage through it.
Now that is something that Kodi defintly has leaps and bounds over Sage and well EVERYTHING else is that Kodi is SUPER accessible to the V.I. thanks to the efforts of Ruuk and Company.
Sage also had a pretty cool Server setup. Everything was basically streamed and transcoded to the central server, then from there streamed to the extenders. This allowed us to do things like for example I would routinely play youtube videos or other online content easily rewind, FF and more importantly, I would hit record when it was done streaming and it would save the file. This for me worked with literally EVERYTHING we played.
The DVR setup and streaming was very robust as well. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see some kind of combination between Sage and Kodi. This would make for such an amazing setup.
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There are however many markets where there is plenty of freely available broadcast TV to record, eg:
1. OTA coverage in the US and Canada
2. Freeview in the UK (60 DVB-T TV channels, 26 digital radio channels, 10 HD channels, 6 text services, 11 streamed channels, and 1 interactive channel) as well as Freesat offering much the same range.
3. Freeview in NZ - available on DVB-T and DVB-S, about 12 TV channels and 3 or 4 radio stations.
The list goes on. Just because cable companies have buggered things for one segment of the market, doesn't mean PVR backends are a waste of time in some general sense.
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I’m new to Kodi only this year, having used SageTV the last 8-years. I would have moved to Kodi sooner, had I known how simple it was to port everything over.
I miss only 2 things I had in SageTV, but not Kodi:
• Frame-by-frame advance while paused
• Quick access to actor biographical information from within the episode/movie information screen
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I installed Arctic. Now I get all sorts of extra info on actors, directors etc.
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