mpegripper
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i'm wondering what everyone uses as the software for their htpc and why they chose it over another program
TIA
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IDversusEGO said:they both have free trials for download. I suggest trying them both and see for yourself. I just downloaded the beyond trial to check it out.
Not to nitpick but the latest version of beyondtv allows a 30 day trial, and even allows you to try if you have tried earlier versions.IDversusEGO said:actually, it is 21 for beyond. and there are ways of extending the trial period...
IDversusEGO said:I think that new site is using a little old info. I downloaded and insatlled the beyond demo. 21 day trial. Also, the version in the news link you gave is 3.44. My demo is 3.5.1.
flak said:mythtv for me. 100% GPL up in here
IDversusEGO said:yeah. It's too bad there sin't one app out there that does it all nicely. meedio/sage combo is the best for me, but I don't like juggling two interfaces.
m1abram said:That is something I never understood when people mention using both meedio and sage. Do they have some kind of tie in to each other or do they juggle two front-ends? Cause juggling two frontends for a HTPC to me is not an option. I do NOT want people to know that I am running a computer when they use my enteratianment center.
Now if people are able to make it a seamless connection I can see that being very cool, otherwise it seems it would make it a little unweilding for the livingroom.
Sage doesn't make a very good frontend anyways, it's worth is in it's PVR features which are more developed, also it's easy to add Sage to Meedio and it's pretty seamless.m1abram said:That is something I never understood when people mention using both meedio and sage. Do they have some kind of tie in to each other or do they juggle two front-ends?
m1abram said:You know I am a linux lover at heart, all but my HTPC and gaming box are running linux. However from my resaerch into HTPC, linux is kinda lacking in the HTPC. I could not find anything as advanced as ffdshow or ac3filter for linux, and the driver support for ATI while is ok for servers, sucks for HTPC since the last I checked the stable ones did not support s-video out.
Maybe I am wrong, it has been ~6 months since I last considered myth. If you know of utilites that support my above concern please point them my way .
flak said:Yeah, linux and the ATI AIW don't really mix. Nvidia cards and the hauppauge 250 get along great tho. In all honesty I've had bad luck with ATI and capturing. My PVR-350 is awesome now that I've gotten it 100% working. I cannot tell the difference between my TV tuner and playback of a recorded program on my mythtv. The only problem is that it flat out sucks at DVD playback. However, it plays divx/xvid/mpeg1/mpeg2/ogm/wmv quite well.
m1abram said:Oh I am not even reffering to ATI capture cards, just using the regular video cards and Svideo out. The last time I looked you could not get svideo out on ATI cards with linux, however I know some people were working on a fix. Not sure how far they have gotten yet. ATI themselves are not helping though, they do not reallly care about linux.
m1abram said:Oh I am not even reffering to ATI capture cards, just using the regular video cards and Svideo out. The last time I looked you could not get svideo out on ATI cards with linux, however I know some people were working on a fix. Not sure how far they have gotten yet. ATI themselves are not helping though, they do not reallly care about linux.
m1abram said:Oh yeah you reminded me of the other Linux and HTPC problem and that is Encoded DVD support. Really a shame about that one too, damn lawyers!
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