HDPVR Support on the Mac (HDPVRCapture) - Page 40

So here's my dilemma. I recently got a Hauppauge HD PVR and EyeTV. I'm recording my xbox 360. I have all the cables hooked up properly. I'm using EyeTV 3.5.3, I'm not sure what firmware the Hauppauge had on it. Everything was working fine until I took my hauppauge to my buddies house and hooked the hauppauge up to his windows pc. I'm not sure if it updated the drivers to version 1.6.29277 when this happened or if that's what they were because I never hooked it up to a windows pc. When I went back home I hooked it back up to my macbook pro and I get a black screen in EyeTV. I thought this may have something to do with the firmware so I installed the version 1.5.7.0 drivers onto the hauppauge. I'm still getting a black screen in EyeTV. I've tried switching everything from component to composite inputs. I've also tried chaning the display on my xbox to 1080i. I'm out of ideas as to why this is happening. Any help with this would be amazing!!

Looks like the new AppleTV 3 will play the 1080 output of the Hauppauge HDPVR-1212 once it is converted to mp4 by HDPVR Capture.

Do we have any actual confirmation yet?

So I am using Screen Sharing back to my home network and attempting to use the Network feature to stream to my current remote location.

I have entered the IP of the remote location in the Network on the HDCapture and the Port 1234. As soon as I start the RECORD, it crashes our internet capability here at the remote location -- it sort of chokes, I guess.

I had to wait out the 1 hour that HDCapture was set to record and the internet works again here at the remote location. I tried it again and same problem.

Any ideas?

Steve set me straight; I had the software set to too high of a bit rate in Video Encoding. I set it to the minimum 1000 rate.

Here is the workflow for others to experiment with (I had trouble even at the lower rate; probably the download speed of my host is too slow):

In Network Streaming, uncheck the first box and check the lower box. In the Destination IP window, add the "external" IP of where you will be to watch the content. IP Port use 1234. Set the initial times for 2 or 4 minutes, so that it will stop quickly if it is having a problem.

At the destination, open the router's software and open port 1234 to the computer that will run VLC; in my case 192.168.1.103.

In VLC, go to FILE to Open Network to Open RTP/UDP Stream. In IP Address enter your local computer IP such as 192.168.1.103 and in Port put 1234. Then OPEN and OPEN and see if it works for you!

I am currently using EyeTV with an EyeTV HD recorder. A couple of years ago I had bought an HDPVR 1212 and the HDPVRCapture program. For whatever reason the hardware didn't suit us at the time and we bought the EyeTV HD which is similar. Everything is run off Mac Minis, all Intel and running Lion or SL. Here is the issue:

Our main interest is in commercial skipping. We moved to Fibe TV which is like AT&T Uverse and uses a Motorola VIP 1200 receiver and a VIP 1236 PVR. No matter what I do the IR Blaster is rarely accurate for anything with more than 3 digits. Can HDPVRCapture control the EyeTV HD? I don't mind buying the Hauppauge box if in fact the channel changing method can be made to work 99% of the time. IR Blasters just seem to be tricky with the Motorola vip1200 boxes. Is there no other way to change the channel?

The other issue is commercial skipping software. Can this be integrated with HDPVRCapture? The one I currently use is comskip which is pretty good but never 100% accurate.

In short, I am looking for an ideal setup to record HD via component, gets rid of commercials and works with the Motorola vip1200 and related pvr. I would rather stay with OSX but am willing to try anything.

Any help or tips would really be appreciated.

Philip

Edit: Unfortunately Bell Fibe TV cannot schedule a channel change for viewing, just for recording to its PVR.

So I have the Hauppauge HDPVR and I've become quite frustrated.

I've captured videos and converted using the HDPVR Capture for Mac program. Once they are mp4 I opened in Streamclip and edited a bit.

I tried using other software to convert to files for Apple TV/iPad, but when I try conversion the audio become out of sync.

So frustrating because I want to be able to use the videos other places and I no longer have the source files.

Any clues on what I can do to fix this or how I can export to AppleTV or iPad format without messing up the sync.

I use Handbrake for conversion with quite a bit of success. And my recollection is that it will convert the m2ts file with no need to transmute the container to mp4 first.

It has presets for AppleTV, iPod, iPod Touch & iPhone, iPhone 4, iPad and the 2nd generation AppleTV.

Try it:

Link to Handbrake download page

Handbrake knocks the video out of sync after editing in Streamclip...

Yes, that is correct!

Edit AFTER Handbrake...

Serious? Oh crap! I have a bunch of MP4's that I already got rid of the MTS on Anything I can do with those?

what is mts?

Sorry, M2TS, the type of mpeg file it captures as.

Use MediaInfo Mac to analyze the MP4 file and save a text copy of its results and email it to me at my nickname at America Online (AOL) dot com.

Do you have the legacy program: VisualHub?

No, I do not have that program.

E-Mailing now!

Hi can someone help me…

I am trying to record with my hdpvr and it records for about 3 seconds and then says "error, no audio or video! Check settings!" can someone please help

Unplug the power for for about 10 minutes and then plug the power back in.

Check your USB cable and replace if you have another, or at least unplug and replug.

Does your Mac's HD have enough available space?

Make sure your Source is left on continuously.

Try to give us more details.

Report back your results...

OLD and NEW.

I had a 2009 15" Mac Pro 10.6.8 that ran HDPVR, 2.12(?), successfully sometime ago.

I just switched to 10.7 and a SSD about a month ago successfully.

Yesterday I ran HDPVR on this setup and it updated to 2.14.1 and did a 4 minute record to the SSD. Converted to MP4. Success!

Next, attached external HDD and recorded a 3 minute clip to it. Converted to MP4. Success.

Now I set record duration to 1hr, 0 minutes/15minutes to external HDD and hit start. Progress bar went very quickly like the short clips and ended up about 180MB.

Repeated above except recorded only to SSD this time, but with identical result.

Is it Lion, the SSD, a combo or something else I need to fix?

Thanks

PS: Before doing anything I updated the firmware, and windows drivers, using win7 on a pc. oops?

I had same issues as other guy I tried what you said still nothing.

I just moved my PVR from Ps3 to Xbox and now having issues never had issues prior I triple checked my connections and still cant figure it out. Help Please.

Try harder...