MythTV replacement

[Spud911]

I have been using mythtv for about a year ago and I love the program but I am looking to start doing a bit more with it, and I am running into issues with my lack of linux knowledge.

When I started using Myth there really was no good windows equivalent that had all of the features that I was looking for. But it seems some of the current windows software has improved alot.

Here is what I want my box to do:

Play videos in all formats (divx, xvid, quicktime, etc)
Basic PVR functions (Live TV, record scheduled TV)
Handle multiple capture cards.

I also want to be able to run 1 backend server that will handle all of the recording and be a fileserver for my video files, and have multiple front ends (STB's at each TV) that will handle DVD playback and get programming from the backend server.

So any windows software that can do all of this?


Spud

 

[CrimandEvil]

Meedio and SageTV, best combo ever IMO.

 

[IDversusEGO]

sageTV is all you NEED, but meedio makes it much better.

 

[Ryokurin]

Another vote for Sage. with the customizations the need for meedio is starting to be less and less. Definitely not needed when studio is released.

 

[Spud911]

Forgot to mention that I am Canadian so SageTVs EPG is not really working. I played with XMLTV a bit today, but had some issues getting it to work.

I think I will revist SageTV when it has native guide data for us northerners.


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[CrimandEvil]

I think I've heard of something to fix those EPG issues, I'll have to look around. Another alternative could be Meedio TV, I've been watching the development of it and they just put out a beta, it looks pretty good. The beta looks almost good enough to ditch Sage if they added some much needed features like those found in the Sage STV customizations.