[badtz]

Does checking on the "Keep Live TV Buffer in RAM" disable the storage space allocated to TV shows on your hard disk? [which is set from the setting above this]




What is happening to me is that I have my shows record onto an external firewire disk.

Sometimes the show won't record, because EyeTV won't compensate for the time it takes to spin back-up an external drive that's sleeping, and for some reason, EyeTV won't record the show [it'll just say it recorded for 0 seconds]

[SSharon]

That setting should only keep live TV in RAM and not TV shows that you have set to record. Is this unit new to you? Are you familiar with the other options, and how are you setting it to record shows? To compensate for the time it takes your external to start up you can change the amount of minutes before a scheduling program it starts to record (I think the default is 2 minutes before and 2 mins after). Recording 0 minutes might be a different problem (and one that I have had) based on the setting to use AV input as opposed to a cable discovered channel. For example when I click record on titantv it tells eye-tv to record the right show and at the right time but it stupidly says record to AV-5 instead of Fox 5.
Keep exploring the prefs and write back.

[hab]

I ran also ran into similar problems trying to record to an external disc when I got my EyeTV200 last year. Gave up. I now record to the internal and subsequently offload files to the external. My experience that the EyeTV software is not absolutely perfect but pretty darn good. And they keep on updating it - for free I might add.

[mattyd]

Hmmm... I record to an external drive, with both the drive and the EyeTv plugged into a Firewire hub. Works perfectly.

[badtz]

Originally posted by hab:
I ran also ran into similar problems trying to record to an external disc when I got my EyeTV200 last year. Gave up. I now record to the internal and subsequently offload files to the external. My experience that the EyeTV software is not absolutely perfect but pretty darn good. And they keep on updating it - for free I might add.

How do you offload the shows onto an external disc?

As the way that directory structure of EyeTV is very cryptic and not user friendly

I emailed El Gato about the external disk problem [yes, mine is set to record 2 minutes before/after the show] , and they told me it's an issue with OS X itself, which I think is crap.

The problem would be EASILY remedied if there was a way they could have the EyeTV software call the OS to wake up the external HD about 30 seconds before the shows started to record.

My problem never happens if my external disk is already running.

[hab]

Originally posted by badtz:
How do you offload the shows onto an external disc?

I typically burn my shows on a DVD so I simply "Export" and choose "for Toast" to create a MPEG-2 file that can be burned on a DVD or watched in Quicktime (you need the MPEG-2 component for Quicktime]. Then I either burn to DVD or copy the show over to my external for future use, and then delete the original file from within EyeTV.

You also can store shows in native EyeTV format over to the external by copying the folder with the EyeTV files to your external and deleting the original from within EyeTV. In EyeTV, you hold down option-shift and click on the "Show Info" button to open up the folder with the selected show in it. Of course, to watch this show, you would have to copy the folder back into your main EyeTV folder identified in preferences.

[badtz]

Originally posted by hab:
In EyeTV, you hold down option-shift and click on the "Show Info" button to open up the folder with the selected show in it.

This whole time I've been wondering if there was a way to find out which folder the recorded shows were in, and here's the answer!!!!

The recording folders are so cryptic, it's harad to find out what show is in what folder!

I've been looking for this solution for awhile now! Thanks.


It still doesn't answer my first question, but this helps a bunch!