Media Center Progress
AppleTV, no. SageTV, no. The best solution I have found so far is a Mac Mini with XBMC for playing my library of avi files. AVI files reach my library via ripped DVD's and bittorrented TV shows obtained with Miro. I just have Miro drop everything into my Movie directory and then XBMC picks them up automatically. It is sooo fast. For recording Over the air TV shows, I'm using Elgato Hybrid with EYETV software 3.0. It's extremely fast and uses very little processor. I can have EYETV record the show and drop it in the movie directory or watch live programming directly with EYETV. I tried AppleTV. It is a closed system with very little support for various video file formats. I tried SAGETV. It uses like 80% processor compared to 13% processor for EYETV when viewing Over the Air content. This 80% processor utilization caused all sorts of skips (during the debate....grrrr). I assume mplayer implementation on OSX is the culprit. Hope this helps someone. I am extremely happy with this setup.
