Foolish - ratzfatz

Seems like blasko did not get the concept of this software at all. Are you seriously expecting the software capturing any content _prior_ you hit the record button?

Have you had a peek at the section where it says "EPG"? This is where you schedule your recordings - and having a closer look to the Preferences might bring up to your attention that there _is_ a possibility to adjust the time before and after your scheduled recordings on a global scale.

You might better go ahead paying TiVo fees.

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Friday, August 01 2008 @ 04:14 AM PDT

Lousy - bughunter69

While EyeTV does have its own solutions to some of your needs, I have to agree that Elgato's customer support is not up to par. I have been unable to get any version of this software after 2.4 to run stably on either an iMac G5 or an iMac Core2Duo. I paid for the 3.0 upgrade thinking it would solve the stability problems... I was wrong.

Attempting to use their customer support proved useless and they were nonresponsive as soon as we established that it was not a configuration error or conflict with other software. This experience repeated at each major release and I upgraded hoping it would solve my problems. But none have so far.

So now, here I am, still using using v2.4 because it's the only version that doesn't crash intermittently, force my Mac to restart without warning, or cause kernel panics.

My advice to prospective users is to verify stable operation using your tuner/encoder hardware before paying for this software.

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Friday, August 01 2008 @ 10:23 PM PDT

Lousy - Krystof

Actually, for at least the past year (I think?), EyeTV HAS offered the ability to record anything that's still remaining in the memory buffer. I'm guessing the OP is using a much older version of the software, and not 3? If so, not fair to comment on software versions you've never even used!!

AS far as the ability to record after the fact: let's say you're watching the first hour of a program, and decide you'd like to record it: if you have the newer software, rewind to the beginning of the program and click on record. EyeTV will SAVE the contents of the memory AND record the newer real-time stream with it, too. The only limit is whatever you've set the contents of your memory buffer for holding data to (which depends on whether you're storing it in RAM or on your hard drive: if hard drive, you could save DAYS worth of data on the channel you're tuned into).

FWIW, I think EyeTV is one of the most stable apps I've ever used on a Mac, and strongly recommend the software. Getting it up and running can take a bit of time, though, as there's a lot of potential bugaboos to iron out with digital T.V. (like your antenna alignment, etc).

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Saturday, August 02 2008 @ 11:44 AM PDT

You're wrong. EyeTV does most of this. - me@dotmac

EyeTV does most of what you're complaining about.

If you're watching digital-over-the-air TV it'll buffer the ongoing program in memory, so if you decide later to record the program, it's no problem, even if you didn't hit record. Set the buffer size in the Prefs to make sure it's large enough to catch one or more hours of programming.

As for recording, again, if you care to look at the settings, you'll see you can set up EyeTV to start/stop recording before/after the official beginning/end of the program. You pick the interval between 5 - 30 minutes.

I haven't had any instability problems - either with EyeTV 2 or 3. It's the most stable piece of software I've had in a long time. I've used it on a first gen Intel Mac Mini, and now on an IMac (Alu), and it's always been flying.

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Thursday, August 21 2008 @ 05:53 PM PDT