Comments on: SageTV extenders and Blu-Ray playback

By: andy vt

andy vt — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:33:16 +0000

It was cheaper than any of the BR drives that also were DVD burners when I got it because of a newegg promo code. I’ve never had great luck with LiteOn drives, they always die on me. Of course the one’s I’ve had in the past have all be in the $20 range…

By: onlydarksets

onlydarksets — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:44:51 +0000

I don't think I need the HD-DVD support, so I'm looking at the LiteOn. There are surprisingly few choices if you just want a BR-ROM drive (I already have a DVD burner, and I don't need a BR burner).

By: andy vt

andy vt — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:41:55 +0000

The drive is a LG GGC-H20LK. My wired network is gigabit but the pc extender is connected over wireless N.

By: onlydarksets

onlydarksets — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:53:51 +0000

What BR drive are you using? Also, I assume you have a GB network? I have a lot of upgrading to do…

By: andy vt

andy vt — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:23:11 +0000

So far, I haven’t found a reason not to like the “play the original m2ts” approach. I don’t have an extender, but throwing the file in an import folder and assigning metadata to it like any other video and it works great in Sage (esp. now that they’ve got HWA/EVR working ).

By: onlydarksets

onlydarksets — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:02:41 +0000

Thanks for the info – VC-1 does seem to be the red-headed stepchild here. This is not a supported solution by Sage (contrasted with their support for archived DVDs), so I’m not expecting 100% success if I go this route. Which means I’ll need a standalone BR player in the living room

By: andy vt

andy vt — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:59:29 +0000

MKV exposes VC-1 in a way that only the MS WMV Decoder will connect to it; which may be what fixes VC-1 issues for those using PowerDVD and m2ts.