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mikesm
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i think this is pretty hard to do as sage doesn't store it's live tv buffer in the same file the way other software does. plus i don't think the client-server protocol is documented anywhere.
mythtv is a better pc/pvr solution anyway.
thanks,
mike
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yeah, it mythtv may be better, but it is linux based, and that isnt so interessting for most ppl having installed.
i would love support for sagetv or snapstream.
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yeah! this sounds great!
streaming live tv or webcam or windows desktop to the xbox r0x!
web-video-streaming to xbmc is afaik possible (i hope so)
so it should be easy to stream wdm-content to the xbox using a streming-server.
but it would be much more comfortable if there is a ui rechable by a button in the main menu in xbmc.
i hope you can understand me :-)
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i am looking at setting up a sagetv client/server setup at home and wonder if it would be possible to use xbmc (or if anyone knows of a sage client setup or equiv for the xbox) as a client system on the network to share the files and recordings and to be used to view tv etc.
is this possible for xbmc, or would a whole new software setup be required?
any ideas?
bob808
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hi,
i use sage tv. i just share the folders in which sagetv stores the recordings and access the files from my xbox thru smb workgroup shares. the files playback gret only thing missing is show info. i wish we could some how grab that off the sage server. or even from zap2it as the file name has a unique show identifier.
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i thought about using shares where the recordings were kept - but if it could act as a client then it would also be possible to watch live tv and have the pvr functions through the xbox.
i guess this is not possible with sage - anyone aware of a rival product that this can be setup with?
cheers
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you need knowledge in c++ programming, you need visual studio .net 2003 or newer and microsofts xbox software development package (only availabable to authorised studios)
and no it is not easy
bob : i use mythtv. free open source dvr software for linux. intigrates well with xbmc via the xbmcmythtv python script
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kraqh3d
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if all the recording information is available in an xml format which can be made accessible via a webserver on the sagetv server, you could do this with a python script similar to the mythtv and tivo ones. you would need to share the folder where the sagetv server saves its recordings with samba or ccx.
the script would retrieve the xml file via an http:// url and then and parse its contents into a menu of what recordings are available. to play a file, it then would need to retrieve the file from the sagetv server but this would require "transforming" the location into a smb:// or xbms:// style url for xbmc to understand.