STVv2 Operating System Portability

[jtalmage]

Hey,
Just downloaded my 15 day trial of v1.4, PVR-350 isn't even here yet, but I can already tell my ReplayTV is will likely be on ebay within 24 hours of the v2 release. I've got just a couple questions:

Any plans on porting Sage Tv (or even just the Client) to other platforms? I know it uses MS DirectX. Is that the only thing keeping it from being portable? It just seems like a bummer to pay the price in system overhead to run the JVM, and not get the portability benefit (Was there some other reason Java was the language of choice?).

I know WineX is a DirectX-on-Linux solution, but unfortuneately it requires an OpenGL card and they recommend basically any card that SageTV doesn't support. That would be only one more operating system anyways.

I know, I'm rambling, but there's gotta be a way to do this!

I really want to put Sage Tv client on a wireless PDA, or on a FREE operating system (More money for my stack of PVR-250's).

Please tell me your thoughts,
Jamie

[stanger89]

Hey, welcome to the forum

I know WineX is a DirectX-on-Linux solution, but unfortuneately it requires an OpenGL card and they recommend basically any card that SageTV doesn't support.

First, Sage doesn't support/not support any video cards, I think you're confusing video cards with TV/capture cards.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Sage to be released on other platforms, Linux is about the only other OS with drivers for the capture cards used by Sage, and I doubt theres enough of a market to port Sage to linux. It would probably take a lot of architectural changes in Sage for it to work on linux.

The one exception is the Hauppage MediaMVP. It sounds like Sage will be released on/for that, but we don't have a timeframe yet.

[ErsatzTom]

While I totally agree that there isn't much point in doing a full Sage port (the demand just couldn't possibly justify the work), just porting the client seems like a much smaller job. I've already personally volunteered to do any work necessary for free on a Mac OS X client port. That would really make me one happy camper.

t

[fidget]

I agree with Tom in that I think that most people who are looking for support for other operating systems are looking for the client rather than the server (althought I would really like to dump my copies of XP for Linux). To me, one of the things that would really help would be support for a standard streaming protocol. That way I could use a web browser with my Quick Time plugin to control and watch programs from my Mac, or use mplayer on a Linux box.

[ErsatzTom]

Originally posted by fidget
To me, one of the things that would really help would be support for a standard streaming protocol. That way I could use a web browser with my Quick Time plugin to control and watch programs from my Mac, or use mplayer on a Linux box.

Yeah, this combined with the web interface hinted at for v2 would be a pretty acceptable cross-platform client solution.

t