Programs, though, the editor is pretty easy to use.
#Elgato eyetv 250 plus analog / digital tv receiver and video converter for mac manual
After consulting the manual and editing a few To be honest, at first I found the editor to be (Switching to MPEG-1 will cut that in half.) Fortunately, EyeTV includesĪn editor which lets you remove any parts of a program you’re not Speaking of large recording collections, though, programs recorded withĮyeTV take up a lot of hard drive space: using the default MPEG-2įormat, an hour of television will consume about 2 GB of space. Variety of different formats, including the ones used by the video iPods. Playlists, manually or automatically, making it easy to keep a large All recorded programs show up if you click Recordings on the When EyeTV records a show, it remembers the show’s name and descriptionįrom TitanTV, which is handy for later use. Is asleep but the screen is up, EyeTV wakes the computer as expected.) Sleep if the screen is closed down over the keyboard. On my PowerBook G4, I found that EyeTV cannot wake the computer from Start recording, if necessary unfortunately, that doesn’t always work. If EyeTV isn’t running whenĪ recording is supposed to start, the program starts up automatically.ĮyeTV is also supposed to be able to wake the computer from sleep to Viewing the EPG, there’s a small dimmed red circle for each program.Ĭlicking on it schedules the show to record. Guide is updated from TitanTV (or tvtv if you’re in Europe). Leave it paused for a while, as I did other things. Habits quickly altered: I’d turn on a program I wanted to watch and Only could I hit Pause when I wanted to get up and get something toĭrink, but having paused the program for a few minutes also meant IĬould Fast Forward through the next commercial break. Since I don’t have a TiVo, the ability to pause, rewind, and fastįorward live TV was new to me, and I quickly saw the attraction. Shows a completely different remote control with significantlyīetter-placed (though not always better-labeled) buttons. The remote control documentation provided on the EyeTV CD You’ll have to get off the couch and walk over to your computer to start Remote control’s power button does not launch the EyeTV application Which is used to open the main EyeTV window. In addition, some of theīuttons are badly labeled, such as a button showing a musical note The remote, requiring an awkward grip to use. The buttons to play, pause, record, stop, etc. The buttons are poorly arranged: for example, It works, but itĬould be better designed. The EyeTV 250 package also includes a remote control. “older” computers (like my two-year-old PowerBook G4) can be used to watch
Since the EyeTV 250 is doing the heavy lifting, Sure, my computer could do that, but it’d be highly The device also contains aĬompression chip which converts the incoming data into MPEG-1 or MPEG-2įormat. Through a coax cable into a Mac’s USB port. The EyeTV 250 hardware unit isn’t just a converter box to let data flow
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