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Welcome to the Open Source SageTV wiki!
This wiki is just getting started (on May 3 2016), so bear with us and check in periodically for more information.
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What is Open Source SageTV?
Open Source SageTV is the open source version of SageTV. It provides media centre and digital video recording functionality. It uses a client-server architecture, with a central SageTV media server providing access to tv tuners, videos, photos, music and internet media. Network clients control access to media on the server and render the audio and video. Network clients can be both 'full' and 'mini'. Full clients (e.g. SageTV Client) run a replicated version of the software running on the server and generate their own UIs. Miniclients (e.g. SageTV Placeshifter, SageTV Media Extenders, SageTV Android MiniClient) use a remote user interface technology and support LAN as well as remote internet connectivity to the SageTV Server. SageTV also has a fully customizable user interface system that uses the SageTV Studio for development with these same UIs executable on the entire set of clients. SageTV mainly supports Windows and Linux (however support for Mac did previously exist, but the open source version has not had it included yet). -
Where can I find out more information?
We're still building this wiki, in the meantime check out the following for more information ...
- the github repository for the source code. Have a look at the README file for details on how to build the software.
- the original SageTV forums for lots of information on the (no longer available) commercial SageTV products. A lot of this information is still relevant to the Open Source version. In particular, check out the SageTV Open Source forums for information specific to the Open Source version.
- the SageTV forum Open Source Download Area thread for information and access to pre-built 64-bit Intel/AMD Linux binaries built from the Open Source code.
- the SageTV forum Windows Installer thread for information and access to pre-built Windows binaries built from the Open Source code.
- a UK-based SageTV wiki site. It's mainly Windows-centric and while it claims to be not ready for public consumption, there is some really useful information on the site.