![]() To accomplish this pre-downloading of my favourite podcasts, I’ve using various podcast aggregators over the years. Be that SageTV, Kodi or MPC-BE (Media Player Classic- Black Edition). So when it comes to podcasts, I like to download them and play them back later, using my preferred video player. I’ve always been a fan of downloading content and playing it back at my leisure, not dependant on Internet connection reliability or bandwidth constraints. Unfortunately it has it’s quirks and limitations. And most importantly it is popular, currently maintained, and free. Kodi (previously XBMC) is a great home theatre/video player in it’s own right. Now that I’m done singing praises to SageTV, I will say that I have been slowly looking for ways to move to a new home theatre platform, or group of software packages to replace SageTV. Not to mention doing so in a 10 foot interface I don’t believe any other DIY software has ever come close to the ease and features of SageTV TV guide and scheduling abilities. What SageTV is amazing at, is the TV guide, and TV show recording scheduling. ![]() And there is the fear that some day, with little or no notice, Google will shutdown our TV guide service. What that means is not being able to play back well, or at all, some newer video compression formats. There are limitations to using newer video codecs, and it doesn’t allow using external video players. However, SageTV is growing long in the tooth is some ways. And to date, it’s been said that they will continue to do so till further notice. Google has also been gracious enough to continue to supply the TV guide data to us SageTV users for free. As a testament to how great SageTV was, Google bought it to use in their own STB, for their Google Fiber project. I’m sure it was fortunate for the owner(s) of the company, and I did and do wish them well in that regard. ![]() Unfortunately for those of us that were customers and loyal users, the software and company were purchased by Google a couple of years back. It was (and in many ways still is) the best home theatre and TV show recording software available for the DIY STB (set top box) person. I’ve been an avid fan and user of a home theatre software package called SageTV for many years. ![]()
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