HDPVR Support on the Mac (HDPVRCapture) - Page 36

I am not personally familiar with using the Playstation 3. Are you trying to use the HDPVR to digitize the output of your PS3? Or, are you somehow trying to use the PS3 as a bridge between the HDPVR and your Samsung? How do you receive your HD programming: over the air, cable, satellite?

No, I would just like to capture the footage from my PS3. I thought I could capture what was being displayed on the TV with the PVR? If anything Im using the PVR as a bridge between the TV and the PS3, if that makes sense?
I want to use the PVR to record what the TV is displaying, and the TV is displaying HDMI video output.. it just seems like the PVR doesn't isn't picking up this signal and therefore captures nothing.
Im under the impression that I may have to find the correct "channel" for the PVR to capture what I want?

Unless I am missing something here:

You did not answer how you receive your TV content (over air, cable or satellite), but it does not matter.

The HDPVR would have to be connected to the video output of your cable or satellite receiver. If off-air, you would probably need a digital tuner, such as Elgato's Eye TV.

Hey guys thanks so much for the help, I've finnaly figured it out. It was to do with the wires and the channel it was on.

The wires seemed to be plugged into the wrong sockets..the wires on the top row needed to be put in the bottom row and visa versa. Strange though, the pictures which are shown on the HD PVR Capture program are actually in the opposite sockets to mine. The the TV had to be put onto the "Component" channel. I then changed the resolution to 720p and it worked...then played around with it a bit and got the resolution to 1080i . Im now very satisfied and happy.

Now im just testing the video quality on Youtube and hopefull have the best quality i can.

Thanks guys, much appreciation for all the help, great community.

Hi Everyone. First time poster

How can I get my macbook or imac to recognise the Hauppage HD PVR. Shows as connected in about this MAC on highspeed usb. Connection is from xbox360 to PVR via component then then mac/imac. Trial version of HDPVR says hardware not found. I know the PVR works as I have it working in windows 7 via bootcamp using the supplied Avermedia software with no problems. Would prefer to use osx Snow Leopold though.

Any ideas or solutions gratefully received.

Also after the solution of how to capture in game voice chat. I can capture game sound fine.

Mark..

Suddently I am getting the following error message with h264ts cutter:

"Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.

"Index was outside the bounds of the array."

Continue does not work for me...

I just want to chop a 15.5Gig 4 hour file in half, so that I can burn it to two DVD-D/Ls in Blu-Ray format...

Anybody know what is going on here? Any alternatives? Thanks!

I recently purchased the Haupauge 1212 HD PVR and HDPVRC version 2.5.7 to go with it on my MacBook Pro 2.2GHz, 4MB memory, 800MHz bus with Mac OS X 10.6.2. I'm still getting acquainted with it and have run into some issues. I've been reading through this extensive forum and apologize if I'm bringing up questions that have been previously answered. If these have already been addressed in this forum please point me to the posting number. The issues and questions I have revolve around scheduling with TitanTV. From Steve's FAQ, Scheduling and automatically Recording, I see the following instructions: "How do I schedule a recording using TitanTV? Using your*favorite*browser navigate to TitanTV.com and create yourself an account. Set your zipcode and hardware to a Hauppauge PVr350. Now, when you next navigate to the TV grid you will see a red record button for each show. Click this red button and your browser will download a file called program.tvpi'. Do to your downloads folder and Open the file. HDPVRCapture will instantly*recognize*it and confirm the scheduling details with you. Click OK to schedule the recording."

I created my personal account and went through the settings, but do not see anywhere an option to set my hardware to a "Hauppauge PVr350." Has this changed? If not, where do I go to set this in my TitanTV account settings?

When I log into my TitanTV account I bring up my TV schedule in my browser and see the program details popup when I hover over a program listing. Within this popup I see a record option, which I select and it proceeds to put a "program.tvpi" file in my downloads. When I go to select "programs.tvpi" in downloads I get the following:
Pop-up: "The document "program.tvpi" could not be opened."
If I first select HDPVR Capture as my active application on my desktop and select the "iCal" tab and click inside "A Summary of the iCal Schedule" I can then open the "program.tvpi" file and add it to the schedule. Is this correct behavior where I have to first click inside the summary? For the scheduled entries the correct date appears, however the time always displays as 00:00. Is this the bug Steve refers to in posting #994? Also, how do you edit the entries added to the schedule? I've tried the edit menu and a variety of command sequences without any success. I know command n allows for a new entry, but it doesn't allow me to edit an existing entry. Is there a way to delete existing entries? I've tried command x, delete, and drag-and-drop to the trash without any success. I see the calendar, HDPVR Recordings, was automatically created in iCal. Are the scheduled entries supposed to show up in this iCal calendar? I don't see them there. Thanks for your time and patience answering my questions.

I found posting #481. Based on this the details I listed above are the bug Steve made mention of in OS X 10.6. I look forward to receiving Steve's fix for this when it is available. It looks like the FAQ needs to be updated too so the step of entering the model of PVR is removed.

Hello all

I am close to giving this up altogether and then I found this thread which seems helpful to a point.

I'll relay my story and see if anyone has any solutions (even if they are blindingly obvious) as I'm stumped.

I bought the HD PVR unit with the sole intention of recording game footage from my ps3 to load onto Youtube.

I am using a 2ghz intel core duo Imac running 10.5.8. The first problem I discovered was that it doesn't have usb 2...only 1.1. Am I right to think then that the HD PVR will not hook up with my mac?

That problem, aside, I turned to my older G4 that I have. This I was able to fit a USB 2 PCI card which helped although I am now sure that the mac itself is far from powerful enough to deal with the files. I've tried the demo (HDPVR Capture) and it appears to sluggishly work and produces .m2ts files but these are 4 or 16kb so clearly not 2 minutes of recording.

I am also getting no picture on the mac showing what is being recorded. Should there be one?

Barring buying a pc to run the supplied software with no trouble at all, any help as to where I'm going wrong. I'd like to buy the full Capture software, but until I can get the demo to work I'd rather not gamble.

Thanks in advance for reading this tale of woe hahaha

Steve will reply with more detail, but some thoughts:

An Intel iMac will definitely have USB 2 on the back ports; the extra USB on your keyboard,if at all, will be USB 1.1.

An older G4 will not have the power to capture nor play the files.

Go back to the Intel iMac with core duo and figure out why their is a USB problem ...

Okay went back to the iMac, connected it all up and hit record. I get the blue top light on the unit and the red one on the front come on but nothing else seems to happen other than navigating around the Capture menu constantly requires a long amount of time.

According to the profiler, the mac only has 12mps on the usb...hmmm

Edit: okay the mac does have usb 2 so I can scratch that off the list haha

Hey Steve, a while back you mentioned adding picture cropping during record as a possible new feature. What's the status on that one? I've got some 4:3 content that would benefit from it. Thanks, I'll also send an email in case the forum glitch you mention above pops up.

I love my tivo series 2, but not the monthly fee. But that's the user experience I'm after.
So I have the following hooked up:
-- HD PVR, with component inputs, and component outputs and audio going to my receiver. I receive audio and video fine.
-- Mac Mini with Firewire 1 tb drive attached. The digital output of the Mac runs into the HDMI on the TV, bypassing the receiver.

I apparently have to look up the channel, switch to it, then record with PVR Capture/Eye/Sage to my Mini?

I then can watch it (assuming I have the right codecs) back on the TV via WD TV Live.

This seems like a lot of steps. Also seems as if I'm missing something that makes all this easier. But in terms of user interface, is there Tivo and then all the rest or is there Tivo and a bunch of roughly equal software packages which utilize HD PVR/WD TV Live in some combination? Or am I tilting at windmills?

Thanks,
/john

Hey guys I just have a small problem I can't seem to figure out.

I bought the HDPVR and capture program a few months back, and both work great. The only problem I seem to have is the video getting slightly pixelated at times. The raw footage after capturing looks fine, but once I try to edit the video it gets all messed up

EX:www [dot] youtube [dot] com/watch?v=rYEzgcxy0O8
(sorry I can't link directly, but i don't have 3 posts yet)

Am i doing something wrong when I export or capture? Sorry if I'm putting this in the wrong place but I didn't know where else to ask. Thanks for reading.

-Crazed

If the raw video looks fine, it is the editing function that is causing the problem, not the capture.

What do you use to edit; and are you transcoding after editing?

Well I use either premiere or after effects to edit the footage. And forgive me for not being as technical as I should be, but transcoding? All i know is I export the video as an .mov, usually with whatever the default exporting settings are.

Has anybody else been experiencing problems using the VLC Preview while capturing?

Since the last update, when I hit record, VLC fires up, shows the preview for a few seconds and cuts out.

Ive tried various builds of VLC, and still get the same thing

--Other than that I am loving this HDPVR and HDPVRCapture ---

Just want to add my experience with the HDPVR and HDPVRCapture software and how I am using the setup. It has been fantastic so far. With all of the things I read on AVS and Amazon regarding issues with the hardware and the lousy Windows software, I am amazed by how great all of this works on a Mac. The entire experience has been plug-and-play and I practically didn't need the manual.

Steve's software is great. Not only does it work flawlessly but it shows the maturity gained from all the great feedback in this thread. Little things like the manual timer, the indicator that the hardware is receiving a signal, etc. make it very easy to use. So I can contribute in some small way, here's my work flow if others need to do the same kinds of tasks. I am just archiving shows (mostly Saints' football-related) from my D* HD DVR to AVCHD disks burned on standard DVD media for playback on a BD player.

I simply play a show/game through the HDPVR and capture it. I then add the m2ts file to a Blu Ray project in Toast. I can add up to about one hour on a standard DVD. Toast provides a simple but effective editor so I can take out commercials. There is no transcoding so the whole process is quick and simple. The burn only takes as long as any conventional DVD and the resulting video quality is excellent. The only minor complaint I have is the poor quality of the AVCHD disk menus available through Toast. They look very amateurish. But it's an easy compromise for such an outstanding video result that can be created so quickly.

Thanks to Steve and everyone on this thread for adding to my arsenal of video tools.

i just recently got the hdpvrcapture and everythings good its just not converting files to play on my quicktime its playing on this software i have that is only a trial and i am not able to play them enless i have them to auto snyc to itunes so is there anything i can do....and i do not have the option to select to use the vlc need help???

HDPVRcapture still cannot see the hardware on my imac under Snow Leopard.

Any ideas anyone?

Mark..

Im new to HD pvr and hdpvrcapture.. but playing with it for a short time I am liking it so far... only problem is the lack of imovie but other then that so far so good. as i play with it a little more maybe I can help others out also.

thanks Stoth for the great program

I've been having some problems with color.

Every deinterlace program I've tried to use with files from HD-PVR capture has mangled the color somehow.


That's the original.



These are players viewing the file after I've deinterlaced it.
Additionally, when quicktime exports a frame the opposite effect happens - it becomes much darker.


I've used more than one deinterlace program, so I don't think it's a problem with deinterlacing.

Is there something strange about the way HD-PVR writes gamma information? There's something on page 28 about removing the gamma tag I don't entirely understand.

EDIT: Those screenshots aren't actually deinterlaced, I just ran them through the program with deinterlacing set to "none" to see if it made a difference.