![]() ![]() But whatever the cause, it never happened inĮyeTV 2.5. This problem online, so maybe there’s something peculiar about my system that The recording I was trying to edit is not damaged whenĮyeTV reopens, but that’s not much comfort. Mouse, I’ll see the spinning rainbow-colored ball, and then EyeTV will WhileĮditing a program, EyeTV will likely at some point stop responding to my In addition, editing recordings in EyeTV 3 usually crashes the program. To have some background noise while I’m working, I’m likely to use my real TV Because of this, I’ve become extra-carefulĪbout saving documents I’m working on before starting up EyeTV. When that happens, theĬomputer becomes completely unresponsive to keyboard and mouse, leaving me noĬhoice but to force a restart. Second or so of sound repeats in a continuous loop. What happens is, the screen freezes and the last Playlist from scratch whenever you want to add a new channel (or delete oneĮyeTV 3.0.2 has crashed my computer, forcing a restart, a few times in the two If you want to keep your channels in order, you have to create a new channels (It is possible to watch one recording while recordingĪnother annoyance I was disappointed to find hasn’t been fixed has to do withĬhannels Playlists: if you add a new channel to a playlist, it appears at theīottom of the playlist, and there is no way to move it into numerical order. Reason why EyeTV shouldn’t be able to keep playing the cached portion of the Started recording something else, there wouldn’t be a problem. Mind you, EyeTVĭid record the program you were watching it was cached, and if EyeTV hadn’t No way to watch the ending of the program you were watching. Recording and you’re a few minutes behind realtime, and EyeTV starts recordingĪnother program, you immediately jump to the program being recorded and have Similarly, but in some ways worse: if you’re watching a show that you’re not So I have toĬlose the TV window, open the recording, and navigate my way back to the part ![]() Jumps forward to whatever the channel is showing at that time. Program is done recording-even if I’m not done watching it-the viewing window Return a few minutes later and resume viewing. While I go away and do something else as expected, it keeps recording. At some point during the program, I pause it New features are great, but I wish Elgato had spent moreįirst up, something that happens to me quite often: I’m recording a programĪnd watching it at the same time. It’s a shame, but a lot of things that annoyed me in EyeTV 2.5 haven’t beenįixed in EyeTV 3.0. Surprised when I learned that: it’s unusually consumer-friendly. ![]() Needs to have EyeTV 3 installed in order to take advantage of this feature,īut Elgato’s software license allows you to install EyeTV 3 on multipleĬomputers, so long as it is only used with one TV-tuning peripheral. With only one Mac on my local network, I haven’t been able to evaluate EyeTVģ’s new ability to share recording libraries with other local Macs. Similarly, it is possible to mute EyeTV with Apple’s remote control, but you Off of your comfy sofa and walk all the way across the room to the computer. There is no way to turn off your EyeTV with the Apple remote: you must get up Limited by Apple’s incomprehensible stinginess with buttons. Only works if EyeTV is the frontmost application, and its functionality is There are lots of options to choose from.ĮyeTV also now responds to Apple’s remote control. Recordings made in the past week, all recordings with a particular actor, etc. Playlist to populate itself with all the episodes of a particular show, all Smart Playlists are another new and worthwhile feature. To not record something if it’s already been recorded. It’d be nice if Smart Guides were smart enough I’ve had with Smart Guides is that it’s easy to end up with multiple Tried it, they can also be exported to an iPod or Apple TV. The playlist of your choice, to help keep things organized. Automatically-recorded programs can be optionally added to Regular timeslot, or for making sure you don’t miss the return of a series It’s incredibly useful for shows which are not shown in a Smart Guides let you tell EyeTV to automatically watch the scheduleįor programs you like, and add them to the recording schedule without the needįor any user action. EyeTV 3 adds several new features, by far my favorite of which is Smart ![]()
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