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Mac PVR Coming Soon

Posted by pudge on from the must-get-new-toy dept.

mgrochmal writes "One of the items bouncing around the rumor mills is EyeTV, a TiVo-like device for Apple computers. Made by El Gato Software, it hooks up to one of the Mac's USB ports and captures MPEG-1 video, with a choice between a VideoCD-compatible recording, or a higher quality recording. You can read about a preview build of it, as well as read a comparison between it and a TiVo." It doesn't come with a hard drive; and here I was, thinking I wouldn't fill up my new 160GB hard drive any time soon. Silly me.

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  1. Re:Let's hope they do a better job than ATi by phong3d · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  2. Double Plus 5 insightful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Well, I see slashdot content still self-moderates itself to about 33.33333% crap, while 99.9999% of the ads appearing on the site are for SourceForge. No one in their right mind would waste advertising dollars on a site that - by its own moderation system - contains over 1/3 crap that isn't worth reading.

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  3. here's another cool device by jilles · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    http://www.archos.com/us/products/product_jbmm.htm l

    It's a 20 GB mp3 player with support for firewire, usb 2.0. Drooling yet? Well it also has extension modules for turning it in a camcorder and a pvr and compact flash reader (to copy photos to the hd). Pretty cool price too :-). If it works as advertised, I might want one.

    --

    Jilles
  4. Build a Linux PVR? by superid · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    I'm thinking of building a dedicated linux based PVR, but I know very little about video capture. All I want to do is timeshift broadcast TV. I know there are many capture cards, and when I read the specs I don't get a feel for what is the most important. I think that I'm moving towards a hauppauge winTV-pci because that is in my pricerange. However, I'm not sure that a P2-266 (my spare box) is up to the encoding challenge in a reasonable amount of time.

    Can anyone point me to a very generic linux PVR project or page?

    Thx!

    (no, I don't want a TiVo)