SageTV versus beyondTV

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How much ram do you guys run on your HTPCs? I'm looking to get BeyondTV and run it on either a 3.0C PC or a A64 3000+ with 512mb of ram. What do you guys think about either setup?

 

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Also this thread is confusing, the voting is for Sage but the posts are for Btv for the most part.

 

[Traire]

GB-PVR!

Freeware PVR software. Ive been using it with my Hauppauge card now for a couple months and love it. The software that came with the card was pretty worthless, and I wasnt to interested in paying out again to get BeyondTV.

 

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I dont have a dedicated tv tuner yet (just my AIW card) so I'm thinking of buying the BTV bundle that comes with the PVR150 and then buying Beyond Link to play stuff on my other PC...anyone have any comments about Beyond Link?

 

[wexsmith]

Originally posted by: rnp614
How much ram do you guys run on your HTPCs? I'm looking to get BeyondTV and run it on either a 3.0C PC or a A64 3000+ with 512mb of ram. What do you guys think about either setup?

If you're only running BeyondTV and other minimal things you should be fine with 512MB. Different video cards "can" make a difference in your picture quality, depending on the resolution you're trying to run shows at. Just remember to format your video partition with 64kb clusters and I suggest excluding the video partition from your antivirus scan, if you're running antivirus.

I just bumped my HTPC to 1GB, because I have it do way too many things. My setup is using SageTV and Meedio together. Running those two things with an FTP server, calendar server, SageTV server (for Sage clients), SageTV web server (for scheduling recordings remotely with a browser), emulators, etc etc etc... was all way too much for 512MB of memory. With 1GB I can grow my HTPC into a better box.

Try to plan out what you're going to do with your HTPC. If you just want basic things running with minimal processes go with 512MB. If your running a more robust computer then you definitely want to consider 1GB.

 

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Originally posted by: wexsmith

Originally posted by: rnp614
How much ram do you guys run on your HTPCs? I'm looking to get BeyondTV and run it on either a 3.0C PC or a A64 3000+ with 512mb of ram. What do you guys think about either setup?

If you're only running BeyondTV and other minimal things you should be fine with 512MB. Different video cards "can" make a difference in your picture quality, depending on the resolution you're trying to run shows at. Just remember to format your video partition with 64kb clusters and I suggest excluding the video partition from your antivirus scan, if you're running antivirus.

I dont understand anything you're saying there haha. I plan on making this just run the full complement of Beyond softwares and then maybe a ftp server

 

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512MB is more than enough performance-wise.

 

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anyone use these programs able to share any new experiences?

 

[Kilrsat]

Originally posted by: rnp614
I dont have a dedicated tv tuner yet (just my AIW card) so I'm thinking of buying the BTV bundle that comes with the PVR150 and then buying Beyond Link to play stuff on my other PC...anyone have any comments about Beyond Link?

My BeyondTV server is an Athlon XP 1800+ with 512mb of ram. Currently has a PVR-150MCE, PVR-250MCE, and a Hauppage PVR-USB2.

This machine is directly connected to a TV and uses a Firefly remote for control. Everything works smooth as butter.

I also use BTV Link to extend that same experience to my normal workstation and its simply awesome.

 

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Sounds good. Initially I was going to go with Sage but it seems for my purposes that BTV is the way to go.

 

[Staver]

My advice is to try them both, since they both have a free trial period.

 

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I would but I dont have a tuner yet. I plan on buying the packages that include the tuner.