Stream Live HDTV with VLC

It looks like there is an early enable available thrue this link to turn a mac into a dvr type machine... Apple is working on it though, and it seems it's not fully developed. Here's the article I found...

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20030715080146169
Cheers,
Jaekib

@aribus - The fullscreen controls are responsible for the random crashes in VLC 0.8.6(a). Disable the controls via the Preferences panel (Interface | Main Interface | macosx), and stability returns.

Cool article.

I own an EyeTV 250. But most of my stuff from that just stays on my Mac and I watch it on my 23 inch cinema display. If I absolutly must get something from the Mac to the living room, I burn it to DVD-RW as a Divx file and watch it using Divx enabled DVD player...Not a very elegant solution but it works.

We have a DirecTV HD Tivo, I think its the HR10-250, hooked up to the HDTV in the living room.

Erica...I wish you would do some more stuff like this in TUAW.

jpgodlew,
It can't easily be done, once upon a time you could pay over 1k to have your DirecTV STB modified to allow recording, but I am not sure if that is still around.

You can also buy a HR10-250 HD DirecTiVo and hack it to enable video extraction. It works, but is not for the faint of heart and eventually DirecTV is expected to move all their HD content to MPEG4 which the HR10-250 doesn't support. You can't even buy the HR10-250 anymore new.

#1 -- Erica mentions CyTV at the end of the article; the performance is not on par with VLC.

Too bad recent releases of VLC have been super buggy with constant random crashes on intel Macs. Google "VLC Random Crash." Mplayer (once just a backup video player) has since become my primary player. At least until the next stable release of VLC.

I'm still trying to figure out a way to record HDTV from my DirecTV receiver. I've heard this can't be done, does anyone have any insight?

If you think that is cool, you really have to check out CyTV, it uses VLC underneath, but it is easy to setup and adds the ability to control the EyeTV remotely.