Watching Sage MPEG files outside the program?

[Bobz]

I have Sage TV and Client 1.4 I recently tried to copy one of the of MPEG files from the server onto my laptop (where the Client is) so I could watch the show on an airplane. I tried watching it with Windows Media Player 10, but the file ran slow, like everyone was on tranqualizers. Later, on my network, I played the show fine from the server using the Sage Client. Do I need a different codec to play the Sage MPEGs with WMP, or is there way to play them with Sage Client, offline?

Thanks

[Kanati]

You shouldn't... But you might want to go download the ACE mega codec pack (or something like that)... It's free to download I do believe. I copy files constantly to my main desktop machine and they play fine. Though I must say that I did install sage on this machine just to take a look at it before buying it. So I might have some mpeg decoder from sage automatically being chosen.

[nielm]

Some laptops have real problems playing mpeg files and use 100% cpu during playback with the video renderer used by WMP (no idea why -- probably a video card problem My latop has a Mobility Radeon and has this problem, I can only playback in Overlay renderer with Cyberlink PowerDVD MPEG2 codec with HW accelleration enabled.).

You could try using a player that allows you to specify the decoder/renderer combo that Sage uses (IIRC, ZoomPlayer is one).

See also: http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=11114

[Kanati]

I don't know if BSPlayer allows you to do that, but it's by far one of the best players I've run into.

[Bobz]

My laptop has a GeForce 128MB video card, and can play 720p WM9HD files easily, so i don't know why it has such a problem with lowely 480i from Sage. I guess I could try playing it using PowerDVD and see what happens.