Commercial DVR Software Comes to Desktop Linux

bella · **21st January 2007, 09:01 AM**

Commercial DVR Software Comes to Desktop Linux

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ — Linspire, Inc. developer of the commercial desktop Linux operating system of the same name and Freespire, the community desktop Linux operating system, and SageTV, a pioneer in personal video recording and home media center technologies that combine television, music and related media into a complete, easy-to-use home media experience, today announced the availability of SageTV Media Center Version 6 for users of the Linspire and Freespire desktop Linux operating system. SageTV Media Center software lets users watch, pause and record TV programs on their desktop and living room Linux PCs and provides a single user interface for accessing online video as well as personal music, photos and videos stored on the personal computer. The optional SageTV Placeshifter also enables users to access their home TV and entire PC-based media library on any Internet-connected Linspire PC at home or away from home.

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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/2857/

arkay · **21st January 2007, 10:29 AM**

I'll be interested to see how well that works...

Cheers,

Arkay.

bella · **21st January 2007, 10:38 AM**

The price is right though.

arkay · **21st January 2007, 10:41 AM**

I've already downloaded all the packages. You don't need Linspire for it to run. You do need a key though but if I can get the time I might install them and have a look. Maybe they'd be interested in sharing a trial key. We'll see.

Cheers,

Arkay.

bella · **21st January 2007, 10:46 AM**

Great!

arkay · **21st January 2007, 10:55 AM**

I should add though that it still requires ivtv and lirc so there'll likely be as many setup problems as there are with Myth. Not that there a alot to deal with now.

The MCE remote kills me. I haven't been able to get that working at all under Suse 10.2 though I haven't tried that hard... yet.

Cheers,

Arkay.