Thanks to the work of third-party SageTV developer, Jason, SageTV users get the beginnings of a mobile placeshifting solution to watch TV on your iOS device. I’ve had the honor of testing the new version of the 3rd party add-on, SageTV Mobile Web Interface which pushes the web interface to your mobile device and it’s pretty nice. Sage Mobile Web Interface has been around for a long time. It’s basically a mobile version of the SageTV Web Interface. What’s new is very significant to those of us with an Apple mobile device like an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. The latest version of SageTV Mobile adds the ability to stream TV recordings to your iOS device. I’ve been testing this new feature for Jason - the developer of SageTV Mobile over the past many weeks. I’m happy to report that streaming TV over WiFi and even 3G works pretty well. There are some caveats of course, but all-in-all this is a great solution – especially for free!
SageTV Mobile streaming works much like AirVideo for iPhone does. It takes recordings from your SageTV System and converts (transcodes) those video files to an iPhone/iPad friendly format. Part of the process includes determining your connection speed between the SageTV server and the mobile device so that the file is small enough to keep up with a slower connection – much like SageTV’s Placeshifter does. Watching your shows on the iPad is really nice. I’ve used my iPad to watch shows throughout the house and it really makes a fabulous, carry-with-you “extender” of sorts. Better yet, the picture quality of the video on the iPad is very good in my exerience – especially on my home Wi-Fi network. And being able to catch up on a show on your iPhone isn’t too bad either. I’ve used this on my work Wi-Fi, in the doctors office where other patients and nurses asked me “how’d you do that?” Obviously video on the iPhone is… well it’s a small screen. But it works and the picture is pretty good on that small screen. I wouldn’t watch a ton of TV on my iPhone, but it’s nice to have when you want to – kind of like how I use the Kindle app on my iPhone.
Read on for a Demo Video of Streaming from SageTV to an iPhone & iPad along with lots of screenshots
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