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Version:  3.2.1

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Video recordings showing with a speaker overlay

Feedback Type:  Troubleshooting Report

Contributed by: Greg_Weston_572 Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 03:49 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

So far, the recordings I've done since upgrading to 3.0.3 have been played with a translucent image of a speaker cone overlaying them. I haven't found a way within EyeTV to turn that off, but I have found the problem and a simple fix if anyone else is having this trouble. This has been reported to El Gato.

1. Select the recording to fix within EyeTV and use the Show In Finder command (or whatever it's called) from the context menu.
2. Quit EyeTV.
3. Bring up the context menu for the recording and select Show Package Contents.
4. Open the file with the eyetvr extension in any text editor.
5. Search for a line containing the text <key>has video</key>. The next line will be <false/>.
6. Change that next line to say <true/> and save the file. (If you're using TextEdit make sure you don't change to RTF in the process.)

When you next launch EyeTV, it'll recognize that the file is more than just audio and won't overlay the speaker image. EyeTV must be quit, because it caches this information and may rewrite the file on exit.   
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Video recordings showing with a speaker overlay - daniel4510_dotmac

Thanks for the hint and that's great and all, but I hope Elgato has a fix SOON. This is pretty annoying, especially if you record a lot of programs. And since EyeTV takes FOR-FREAKING-EVER to start up on my machine, it's not fun shutting it down and restarting.

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Sunday, August 10 2008 @ 08:52 PM PDT


Video recordings showing with a speaker overlay - daniel4510_dotmac

Appreciate the interim fix but why are they taking so long to correct it? The new fall season is just around the corner. Come on, eyetv. Fix it already. It can't be that hard.

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Wednesday, August 20 2008 @ 10:58 PM PDT