![]() ![]() The good news is that the picture quality is significantly better than the old myTV.PVR box (including de-interlacing on the fly, *woot!*), and the software works. Note: 95% is fine max load is 200% on a dual CPU box. On my G5, that works out to be about 25% when just streaming live TV and close to 95% when recording. It uses software decoding, so (unfortunately) it uses significantly more CPU than the old one. This took quite a bit longer than I expected, but it finally showed up today and I just hooked it up. I wasn’t able to find the device at any local retailers (of course, *sigh*) so I ordered one from CDW.ca. I was frustrated with the quality of the TV listings software I was using and, from all accounts, the EyeTV software is the best thing you can get on the Mac. #Eyetv epg proxy how to#The rest of the story is short: installed Salling Clicker, paired my phone with the Mac, discovered that Clicker already knew how to control the EyeTV (woot!), and happily spent the rest of the night clicking through the channels. Hm… Oh well, I plugged it in anyway and, as I should have guessed, the Mac recognized it immediately. #Eyetv epg proxy driver#I remembered from the last time I plugged it into the PC that it needed a very specific driver to work, so I went to the D-Link site, only to find out that there was no Mac driver. Now, I still had a D-Link USB bluetooth transceiver from back in the days when I used to use my PC for something other than game playing. There was only one problem: The G5 doesn’t have a bluetooth interface either. It’s a convenient way to make sure that I always have a presentation remote with me, since I know I’ll be carrying my cell phone. I’ve been running it on my laptop for quite a while. Salling Clicker is a software package that allows you to remote control almost anything on your Mac (or PC) using a bluetooth cell phone or PDA. The Elgato site identifies several commercial Mac remotes that will work with the EyeTV, but even I could figure out that buying one doesn’t make sense: it’s not like I’m actually going to use it, I just want to be able to claim that I could. :-))įirst off, the EyeTV appears to have an IR receiver built into it, so I tried a couple of the universal remotes I had around the house, but didn’t get any reaction. (Because you know, it’s not a real TV until it has a remote control. So the obvious next question is, how could I remote control the EyeTV. Unfortunately, I’m using the EyeTV with the PowerMac in my basement, which does not. ![]() One of the nice things about the device is that you can control it with your Apple remote, if you attach it to a Mac that includes one. As you know, I got an EyeTV Hybrid, and I’m very happy with it. ![]()
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