Core Video access to a Digital TV signal

[Uli Kusterer]

On 24.08.2007, at 06:31, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
> Miglia TVMini.
>
> Sold by EyeTV -- which I still can't get to work after I installed  
> 10.4...

  Err you're getting some things wrong here:

1) EyeTV is a *product* by a company called Elgato (http:// 
www.elgato.com), and has nothing to do with this hardware device  
(well, about half a year ago the manufacturer of the device had a  
license to bundle EyeTV, but that was revoked), and never sold them.

2) EyeTV works fine for me on 10.4.10. But then again, I have an  
EyeTV Hybrid stick to go with it. Hybrid devices are cool because you  
can receive digital TV, but also attach your old VCR or camera to  
grab videos.

3) the TVMini is not a card, it's a USB device. Other companies sell  
oodles of USB devices (including Hauppauge, Terratec, Pinnacle,  
Elgato, ...). I don't think there's any good PCI devices out there  
anymore (not too many people who own a Mac Pro *and* want to watch TV  
on it), but there's the HDHomerun (http://www.silicondust.com/),  
which is a network-attached dual-tuner, you may wanna look into that.

4) AFAIK all of these USB devices come with their own software, and  
aren't supported by CoreVideo in any way. The HDHomerun however,  
brings a streaming signal that you can receive e.g. with the free VLC  
player (http://www.videolan.org/), so it should be possible to write  
your own code for that open standard. If you don't need the TV tuner  
software, you can buy it from Silicon Dust themselves and save a few  
bucks.

  Disclaimer: I work for Elgato, so I am definitely biased.

Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de