Is SageTV Recorder Dead? Does it Support the Hauppauge HDPVR?

[All4Fun]

I have the Hauppauge HDPVR and I'm only interested in using the PVR features to record HD programming using the Hauppauge HDPVR.

SageTV Recorder seems to be the appropriate product for $20 vs. $80 for the SageTV media center product.

Will SageTV Recorder support the Hauppauge HDPVR for my purposes?

[evilpenguin]

Short answer: No

Slightly Longer Answer: SageTV Recorder has long since been depreciated and all of its functionality (headless network encoder) has been moved into the full install.

[All4Fun]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Short answer: No

Slightly Longer Answer: SageTV Recorder has long since been depreciated and all of its functionality (headless network encoder) has been moved into the full install.

Thank you for the response. I'm VERY close to purchasing the full install after having gotten another issue resolved.

[172pilot]

I had assumed that the reason for the recorder was to offload the recording onto another box, so that recording and playback were being done on different processors? Is that not the case?

If it is/was, but the functionality is now moved into the core, does that mean that two different sagetv boxes can be pointed to the same unc for recording / playback?

I'm curious since I'm having my CPU spike on HD downconversion to MVP, and dont want to risk messing up any in-process recordings, so I was thinking of installing a recorder box separate from the SageTV box that the extenders pointed to... Is this not a valid install scenario?

-Steve

[Fuzzy]

Not so much that you run two boxes pointing to the same path, but one box acting as a slave (Network Encoder) for the other. Unfortunately I believe only the master box is what will be doing the transcoding for the MVP's. Also, with the cost of purchasing a second full SageTV liscense, you would probably be better off upgrading the CPU on the overworked, system, or getting an HD Extender to replace the MVP.

Also, I wouldnt' worry about it messing up any in-prcess recordings, as they it seems to give priority to the recording over the transcoding. The CPU usage for just recording is practically nothing, and everything is running through buffers, so you won't get corrupted video strictly from overworking the processor.

On a similar note, I do wish I could install a second sage server, and use my SageRecorder liscense from years past to activate it, instead of the expensive option of paying for a complete other server.