Anybody using firewire or HD recordings outside of sage?

[DCipher]

Is anyone out there using firewire or HD recordings outside of sage?
Does anyone use a 3rd party media streamer alongside sage, or is everyone just using the sage client?

I'm having trouble using the mpeg files that sage creates in any other software/hardware... this is a big bummer for me. I love sage - just wish i could use the files how i want!

Anyone?

Jeff

[olyar15]

I sometimes use WMP or, rarely, Theatertek.

for some reason, I prefer using WMP for watching previously recorded HDTV shows.

[DCipher]

thanks. Do you ever have problems with the files that sage creates? I am recording from a Fusion HDTV5 Lite and from firewire. Can't get those recordings to playback in anything other than sage.

What are you using to record?

FYI - i have just tried out beyondTV 4 and the recordings it makes with those SAME sources on the same machine work perfectly everywhere...

Jeff

[JasonJoel]

I record HD from a Motorola DCT cable box to .TS files via firewire.

They have played perfectly in all other apps. But I would expect them to, all it is doing is dumping the data stream to the HD... No TS -> PS conversion or anything.

Jason

[DCipher]

Jason,

That's what i would expect, only sage insists on making my recodings MPEG files, not ts files... not sure why i'm having problems with it. Like i said, when i record with BeyondTV it makes ts files and they play everywhere...

Any settings that you know of that tells sage to just grab the stream and leave it alone?

Jeff

[olyar15]

I also record via firewire straight .TS dump. Sage renames the extension as an .mpg file, but that doesn't seem to cause any problems. I don't recall doing anything to WMP or TT to make them play.

[DCipher]

Very strange... not sure why my files aren't just straight dumps from the source, but they definitely aren't.. what version of sage are you running?

Jeff