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This lets me control my music from anywhere in the house without access to a tv, a real bonus since my house is wired for sound from my central stereo.
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MP also has some different plugins that will let me remotely browse my music library using a wifi or bluetooth enabled device and gives me full playback control (MPBlue for older versions, Information Server or PPC Remote for current versions). MP also lets me toggle between the menu and full screen visualizations with a shortcut. Sage doesn't have anything this convenient, more than tripling the time and effort to make a custom playlist on the fly. Media Portal lets me use one keyboard shortcut to add songs, albums, artists, genres, folders etc to the current active playlist, then another shortcut to toggle to this list to browse, shuffle etc. Second and more important is the playlist or currently playing access. If I want to sort by year or one of the lesser ID3 fields I need to make a playlist for that. It also has typical playlist features and options to download info and recommendation online.īy contrast SageMC has many of the features of Media Portal's interface but with some notable exceptions. Visualizations can be added, and you can switch to other music engines like Foobar or Winamp. I added plugins for an information server that lets me control my music library from a wifi PDA, and a lyrics plugin. Album art is cached and can come from ID3 files, folder.jpg or the internet. I can view by lists or album art, sort by Genre, Artist, Album, File, Year, any data in the ID3 files. They lose some of the BTV options, and need to run Comskip instead of Smartchapter.įirst in my Media Portal setup is my music library. Others have also used MP to launch the BTV viewscape or simply run BTV as a service and view their videos in MP. I use my remote to launch the BTV or MP interface, so I really don't skip a beat using the two program combination vs the integrated SageTV product. I also edit many of the xml files directly, and again, I have an unfair 3 year head start with MP over Sage.
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The configuration program lets you go in and adjust all settings and update databases in a non-htpc format.
#Sagetv placeshifter port install#
They give you the choice of whether to install the TV Server or not, and then walk you through the other features such as weather, music, videos and pictures. Setting up channels in their TV Server is a real chore, and guide data is available only by subscription or HTML stripping. Based in Europe, the MP community really is not well suited for developing the US TV market. It has come a long way in its development. Media Portal seems to have far more configurable settings, and their configuration program seems to be far better suited for dealing with the various external plugins or internal features.Ī little more about Media Portal. SageTV again requires all changes to be made in the Viewscape or directly to its Sage.properties file (their equivalent to BTV's settings.xml). Non-TV setup in SageTV is about on par with Media Portal, however Media Portal offers a configuration program similar to BeyondTV’s Webadmin, where all configurations can be entered or tweaked beyond the initial setup of folders etc. Part 2 - Non-PVR functionality – SageTV compared Media Portal
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This is part 2 of the article: BeyondTV Plus MediaPortal vs SageTV – Redux To read Part one click here Basic guidelines for writing and submitting a guest post at GeekTonic can be found here. NOTE: This is a guest post by ZetaVu, a GeekTonic reader and frequent guest-blogger on GeekTonic. It’s a long one so I’m breaking it out into two parts – one which I posted early Thursday. I’ve noted a few corrections or “clarifying notes” where I thought they would be helpful to other readers, but otherwise I’m posting this review verbatim as provided to me by ZetaVu. ZetaVu is a pretty hard-core user with some pretty specific needs, but you can’t argue that he put some serious time into trying things out. So after posting a how-to on switching from BeyondTV to SageTV I thought I’d share with you a counter-point guest-post by a long-time BeyondTV user who tried to switch to SageTV, but couldn’t make the move in the long run.
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I still have BeyondTV installed on a test PC but have since switched to SageTV for my whole-home HTPC needs. As many GeekTonic readers know, I was a long-time user of BeyondTV.