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The following products and system details are required to effectively deploy SageTV. If you do not have them or have questions regarding the requirements, either contact us or take this list to your local computer retailer for assistance. If you need a compatible TV Tuner card, we offer SageTV bundled with a few different PCI Tuner cards and USB devices through our Online Store.

 
  • For SageTV Media Center for Windows - PC Operating System: Microsoft Windows 98SE, 2000 SP3 or higher, ME, XP (Home, Pro or MCE), or Vista
  • Minimum 128Mb RAM and a Recommended 256Mb RAM
  • For Hardware Encoding: Intel Pentium III, Celeron or AMD Athlon at 600 MHz or VIA 800MHz or faster
  • For Software Encoding: Intel Pentium 4, Celeron or AMD Athlon 1.5 Ghz and above
  • For Placeshifting Server: Intel Pentium 4, Celeron or AMD Athlon 1.5 Ghz and above
  • For SageTV Media Center for Mac - Mac OS 10.4 or later. Mac computers with PowerPC G4 (500Mhz or faster), G5 or Intel processors. Minimum system requirements are 256MB RAM, recommended 512MB RAM
  • For SageTV Placeshifter for Windows or Linux: high speed internet connection (128kbps for TV playback) and Intel Pentium III, Celeron or AMD Athlon at 600 MHz or VIA 800MHz or faster
  • For SageTV Placeshifter for Mac: high speed internet connection (128kbps for TV playback) and Mac with 128MB RAM, PowerPC G4 (500 Mhz or faster), G5 or Intel processor running Mac OS X version 10.4 or later
  • For HDTV Playback: 3Ghz processor or higher or a slower processor in combination with a video card utilizing DXVA support and using a decoder which supports DXVA

  • Supported Analog TV Tuners with Hardware Encoding:

    • Mac
      • Hauppauge EskapeLabs myTV.PVR
      • Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 (use the EskapeLabs drivers)
    • Windows
      • Adaptec VideOh! DVD Media Center Edition (PCI only)
      • ATI eHome Wonder
      • ATI Theater 550 chipset, including those by GeCube, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, Sapphire, Tul, VisionTek and Yuan (with V3 or later)
      • ATI TV Wonder Elite (V3 or later)
      • AVerMedia A187 (Purity 3D MCE 250) PCI
      • AVerMedia M150
      • AVerMedia M175
      • AVerMedia M1A2 Dual Tuner PCI
      • AVerMedia UltraTV Media Center PCI 500
      • AVerMedia UltraTV Media Center PCI 550
      • AVerMedia UltraTV 1500MCE
      • AVerMedia M038 USB
      • AverMedia M780
      • Creative Labs Video Blaster Digital VCR
      • Hauppauge Roslyn
      • Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600
      • Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150MCE
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250BTV
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250MCE
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500MCE
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2
      • HAVA Gold, Platinum and Wireless HD
      • nVidia DualTV
      • Plextor ConvertX M-402U
      • Plextor ConvertX TV-402U
      • Prolink Pixelview PlayTV P7000
      • Provideo PV256 Series
      • Provideo PV258 Series
      • Provideo PV259
      • Provideo PV358T
      • Vista View DA-1N1-I
      • Vista View Saber 2020
      • Yuan MPG-600
      • Yuan MPG-843
      • Yuan PG-600
      • Other MPEG-2 encoding cards based on the Conexant IVAC-15, IVAC-16, CX23415, CX23416 or StreamMachine 2210 Codec should function correctly but may not have been tested.
      • Tuners compatible with Windows MCE should work, but not all of them have been tested.
    • Linux
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150MCE
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250MCE
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500MCE
      • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2

  • Supported DVB Tuners (requires SageTV V6 or later):

    • Windows
      • Cinergy 2400i DT Capture
      • Dvico FusionHDTV USB
      • FireDTV DVB-C (supports PayTV through CAM/CI)
      • FireDTV DVB-S (supports PayTV through CAM/CI)
      • FireDTV DVB-T/CI (supports PayTV through CAM/CI)
      • FloppyDTV C/CI (supports PayTV through CAM/CI)
      • FloppyDTV S/CI (supports PayTV through CAM/CI)
      • FloppyDTV T/CI (supports PayTV through CAM/CI)
      • Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T-Stick USB
      • Happauge WinTV Nova-T-USB
      • Kworld VStream DVBT100
      • Kworld VStream XPERT DTV-DVB-T PCI
      • KWorld DVB-T USB 339U (dual tuner)
      • KWorld DVB-T PCI 160 (dual tuner)
      • Leadtek DTV1000
      • Nebula DigiTV (DVB-T tuner)
      • Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Pro PCI
      • Pinnacle PCTV USB Stick, model PCTV 70e (DVB-T tuner)
      • Provideo's PV913
      • Technotrend Budget C-1500 (supports PayTV through CAM/CI)
      • Technotrend DVB-T/C 1300 (supports PayTV through CAM/CI)
      • Technotrend S-1500
      • Technotrend S-2400
      • Technotrend S2-3200
      • VisionPlus/Twinhan TwinhanDTV (VP-3021)
      • Most USB Stick devices using the Dibcom 7700 Chipset should work, but not all of them have been tested.

      • Most other BDA based DVB-T/C/S cards should work with Version 6.2 or later but may not have been tested. If you have tested a specific card that is not listed, please report your findings to us at support@sagetv.com.
    • Linux
      • Tuners that have a Linux kernel DVB-T driver should work; but not all tuners have been tested.

  • Supported OTA HDTV Tuners (requres SageTV V5 or later):

    • Windows
      • ATI HDTV Wonder
      • AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180
      • AverMedia M780
      • Conexant CX23883 ATSC based cards
      • Dvico FusionHDTV5 Lite
      • Dvico FusionHDTV3 Gold-T
      • Dvico FusionHDTV5 Gold Plus
      • Dvico FusionHDTV5 USB Gold
      • Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950
      • Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600
      • Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800
      • OnAir HDTV-GT
      • Philips x237 PCI 7133 ATSC based cards
      • Silicon Dust HDHomeRun
      • Vbox Cat's Eye 164e PCI-e dual tuner
      • VBox DTA-150/151 ATSC card
      • VBox USB-A 3560 device
      • VisionTek TV wonder 600 USB
      • Vista View DA-1N1-I
      • Most other BDA based ATSC cards should work with Version 5 or later but may not have been tested. If you have tested a specific card that is not listed, please report your findings to us at support@sagetv.com.
    • Linux
      • ATI HDTV Wonder
      • AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180
      • Dvico FusionHDTV5 Lite
      • Dvico FusionHDTV3 Gold
      • Dvico FusionHDTV3 Gold-T
      • Dvico FusionHDTV5 Gold Plus
      • FusionHDTV USB
      • Tuners that have a Linux kernel driver should work, but not all tuners have been tested. For some tuners with Linux drivers, see:
      • ATSC PCI cards

  • Supported ClearQAM HDTV Tuners (requres SageTV V6.2 or later):

    • Windows
      • AverMedia M780 (Windows Vista only)
      • Hauppauge HVR-1600
      • Hauppauge HVR-1800
      • OnAir HDTV-GT
      • Silicon Dust HDHomeRun
    • Linux
      • Dvico FusionHDTV5 Lite
      • Dvico FusionHDTV3 Gold
      • Dvico FusionHDTV3 Gold-T
      • Dvico FusionHDTV5 Gold Plus
      • Tuners that have a Linux kernel DVB driver should work, but not all tuners have been tested.

  • Supported TV Tuners with Software Encoding (requires SageTV V5 or later):

    • Windows
      • Plextor AV100U
      • Plextor TV100U
      • Most other WDM capture devices should work with Version 5 or later but have not yet been tested. The above list will be updated as other cards are tested. If you have tested a specific card that is not listed, please report your findings to us at support@sagetv.com.

  • Video Card: PCI/AGP bus graphics card with overlay. NOTE: While it is recommended that your Windows graphics card drivers support DirectX9 for optimum performance, it is not required.
  • Software:
    • DirectX v9.0 or higher available freely from Microsoft.
    • Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or higher available freely from Sun Microsystems.