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HDHomeRun HDTV Mac Streaming Tool
I first heard about the HDHomeRun on DL.TV a while back, and while it looked very interesting I was left disappointed that it lacked full Mac support. The HDHomeRun is a cool little device that contains two over-the-air HDTV tuners to receive HDTV and then stream that HD content over your home ethernet network. The streams it produces can be viewed with VLC so it it was possible, if somewhat difficult, to make it function with a Mac. Now, however, aa1979 has posted a Mac GUI to the Silicon Dust forums which makes it much easier to set up a stream. It's still far from as full featured as the Windows Media Center interfaces, and you still need to use VLC to watch the stream, but the level of hackery necessary to use the HDHomeRun with the Mac has gone down considerably. I wish EyeTV supported the HDHomeRun, though there's some hope that once SageTV gets going on the Mac (later this year) it may support this device to make a true Mac-based HDTV DVR.
Thanks, Andy!
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bpmarkowitz said 12:00PM on 3-06-2007
So, EyeTV is not a true Mac Based HDTV DVR why?
- It has a full screen menu
- It has a remote
- It can do cable or OTA
- I can schedule recordings via the internet
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Mat Lu said 1:52PM on 3-06-2007
Oh, I wasn't intending to suggest that EyeTV is not, but the HDHomeRun does not support it.
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JeffDM said 2:04PM on 3-06-2007
A little bit of a nit-pick, but not all EyeTV products include a remote. It supports a remote, but that has to be supplied. In many ways, EyeTV is still a litte unrefined. It crashes once in a while, and usually the live TV buffering doesn't work for me. When I play a recording that's not done yet, it assumes that the left and right buttons on my remote are to change channels, not to skip around in playback.
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bpmarkowitz said 2:35PM on 3-06-2007
I have the EyeTV 500 and an EyeTV EZ, both of which came with remotes, so I just assumed that all did.
While the analog EZ has some problems with live buffering, etc, I have never had any problems with the 500 (which I think they don't even make anymore). I have it set to record about 15 shows throughout the week which it does dutifully unless the power goes out.
I will admit I don't have much experience with the remotes, they are still in the box. I just use my keyboard. Most of my EyeTV watching happens while I am doing work.
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JeffDM said 1:13AM on 3-07-2007
I only have the EyeTV Hybrid, two of them. They did not include remotes, but they happen to be compatible with the Apple remote if you happen to have one around. That actually made the Apple remote useful to me, I never bothered with Front Row and I can't think of anything else that uses it.
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procon said 11:13PM on 3-08-2007
I hope Sage or EyeTV steps up to the plate and supports this device, namely because I have one from a failed PVR project.
In general though, I hope Sage on Mac is a robust PVR, which means client support and commercial skip (if not at launch, then soon after). Sage is being very tight-lipped, but its product is needed; PVR software is one place where Macs are lacking. I read about one attempt to run Myth on a Mac through Parallels, but I'm not sure how that'd work:
http://www.dodd.org/blog/2007/02/hdhomerun-hits-it-out-of-the-park/
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