SageTV has released a public beta of version 6.0, and there's a ton of new features.Here's a few of them:
- Search and play Google Video files from you SageTV machine or from a media extender
- Playback more file types, including MOV (Quicktime), 3GP, MP4, H.264 Playback
- Convert files to play on a PSP, iPod or cell phone (3GP/MPEG4)
- Improved conflict resolution user interface
- Support for compressing HDTV recordings to MPEG4 while preserving the AC3 surround sound
- File conversion is now fully integrated into the maini user interface. You can also manage encoding jobs from within the UI.
SageTV users with a valid license for version 5 or later can upgrade for free. Users of SageTV 4 or earlier can upgrade for $30 (a new software license costs $80). It seems a little odd to me that you'd buy an upgrade key for the beta, but I assume the key will be good for the official release of SageTV 6 as well.
