Trying with Sage but keep falling at the first hurdle..

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by pmcguire

I am taking this TT card back tomorrow and changing it for the FireDTV.

I have a FireDTV, good but supported by fewer TV apps than the TT cards.

[Mark SS]

Originally Posted by pmcguire

Mark do you know if the Sagetv DVB-S CI implementation will require that god awful TT Auto Decoder plugin that is required for MCE?
Or will Sage have it's own version that hopefully works better?

Everything required is being built into the core product, no external applications required. Keep in mind that most of the testing is being carried out with a TT 3200 card so its your best bet for getting a working solution soon.

The TT MCE AutoDecoder is actually quite a clever workaround by TT for the limitations imposed by MCE. I decompiled it a while ago to help me get an understanding of how the TT CI interface worked when I was looking at writing the support myself, before Sage came along and saved the day!

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by Mark SS

Everything required is being built into the core product, no external applications required.

It would be nice it it could support external DLL plugins like DVBCore and ProgDVB does... <cough>

[pmcguire]

Originally Posted by Mark SS

Keep in mind that most of the testing is being carried out with a TT 3200 card so its your best bet for getting a working solution soon.

Ok I will keep the TT card then, I must admit that I was very concerned about losing the S2 support, Canal+ is changing to S2 at some point next year.

On the other hand I would have done everyone a mighty favour, because within days of me swapping the TT card for the firedtv, TT would have released brand new drivers that work 100% and new MCE plugins. Then Firedtv would release a brand new model with twin tuners and S2 support. That is at least the kind of luck I have with these things