SnapStream's Beyond TV 3 - The Must-Have Home Multimedia Software
by Andrew Ku on May 12, 2004 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
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Web Admin - A Welcome Relief (continued)
The advanced settings sub-menu brings more options forward. The first thing that we did was to edit the security settings, obviously, since this could be accessed over the net.Most of these settings are explanatory by the description and aren't worth diving into, so we will just go over the most noteworthy of them.
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Security settings cannot be edited remotely until security is turned on locally. You cannot turn it on remotely, which is probably for the best, all things considered these days.
Beyond TV 3 allows for the creation of users and permissions on the basis of pre-assigned user groups.
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There are two recording categories: MPEG-2 and Windows Media, by default. Under these two groups are profiles, which are all unique regarding their combination of compression format, video bitrate, audio parameters, etc. It is good to see that SnapStream has pre-included DVD profiles, so that archiving your video library on discs is that much easier without the need for a lot of transcoding.
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Since web admin is open to the local and outside network, you may want to consider changing the port on which web admin runs, especially if you have a firewall or router.
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batorok - Thursday, May 13, 2004 - link
as a Sagetv user I'm pretty miffed they didn't compare the two. Sagetv 2.0 has a really nice new interface, handles multimedia (pics, mp3z, movies, dvds including vob files) pretty well, has multituner support, and better image quality of viewed tv (I demoed both before buying sage). Since tv is what it's all about, the picture quality is what's important to me.reboos - Thursday, May 13, 2004 - link
MythTv is very nice.mcveigh - Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - link
good question crazy_vagI don't think snapstream supports HD capture cards
crazy_vag - Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - link
When will I be able to record Soprano's in HDTV on HTPC???mcveigh - Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - link
I think you should consider comparing it to tivo/replay as I think this is more what it is aimed at replacing.also I would like to see more info about multile tuners.
how about a shoot out of personal video software in the future?
SnapStream vs. sage TV vs. windows MCE vs. ????
Jeff7181 - Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - link
Wonderful review. Looks like a very robust piece of software. If I was in the market to build a HTPC I'd probably buy it. From what I see, I like the information windows... they have a little bit too much info, but at least they're transparent so you can still see the show... unlike Comcast the last time I paid for digital cable.llamas - Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - link
Are you considering a review of SageTV 2.0 (just released)? It would interesting to hear how it compares with BTV3. SageTV supports multiple tuners, and has client software with the same interface as the server.