TV Capture Part 2 and a quarter
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Leopard on November 5, 2007 at 12:25 pm
We have a whole family of Leopards living in our office now. The upgrade has been trouble-free once we had learned which utilities to un-install before upgrading: ClamX, Onyx and Epson scanner driver being the most important for us.
In return we have slightly more sprightly Macs, a few minor programs that are waiting for updating and a whole new way of working. Time Machine has released us from multiple back-up stored across different hard disks so we even have more space we can fill with junk. All our major apps are working – luckily we haven’t moved to Adobe CS3 and are still using QuarkXPress 6.5, 7.3 and CS2 and CS1. All appear to be functioning within normal parameters, meaning XPress still crashes for no apparent reason.
Elgato EyeTV
During the process of upgrading to Leopard I connected a MacBook to a G5 via a Firewire cable. The G5 has an EyeTV 410 attached to it which promptly started to display on the MacBook using the EyeTV software already installed there. In other words, the Firewire EyeTV devices are networkable via Firewire. A neat, unpublished trick. I wonder if Elgato know about it?
As part of the general improvements made possible by Leopard various new features have been added to EyeTV recordings. For a start they can be viewed in Cover Flow, Leopard’s iTunes Album cover-style file browser and if the recordings are prepared for Wi-Fi they can also be played back in the Finder. Using iChat Theatre, EyeTV recordings can be shared over the Internet in a Slingboxish sort of way.
The neatest new wheeze is probably with Spaces, Leopard’s virtual desktops. Each space can be playing back a recording or live TV. By enabling floating windows in every Space and “Keeping Player Windows on Top” in EyeTV’s View menu we’ll be able to max out our processor/s in a glorious TV pig-out.
A bit like David Bowie in Nicolas Roeg’s film (of Walter Tevis’ book) The Man Who Fell to Earth. Except Bowie’s character became addicted to alcohol and TV.
Hmmm, no change there then.
Miglia
Eric Ferraz at Miglia’s product development also contacted me, with apologies for the long delay in responding to my problems with their gadgets. Miglia’s developers have been busy lately, getting things ready for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. He thinks they may have found why I was unable to pick-up more channels and will be writing a software update soon.
Another Lepoard wrinkle
When you do a Command-Shift-4 screen capture, little numerals appear next to the mouse pointer showing it’s location. I suppose it must be useful for something.
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