I don't want to buy a Tivo. I have a perfectly good Mac that's on 24 hours a day, net-connected and has 172 GB of disk space absolutely YAWNing for video to fill it up.
A friend just bought an ATI All-in-Wonder card for his PC and has Tivo-like service with better expandability ... all with just the software that came bundled.
Even though ATI is ostensibly a Mac-friendly company, neither the card nor the software is available for the Mac.
There is the
XClaim TV (USB)
attachment, but how good can a USB video connection be? The software doesn't appear to offer any auto-record features like the A-i-W PC card does, and what kind of compression could it have if it then has to decompress before it goes on screen and compress to disk again?
Are there any good, sub-$250 (Tivo price or so) solutions to do this sort of thing on the Mac? Will I need to write software to do it myself?
I had video-in on my Performa 6400 five years ago! Why is it so hard to do it now?
Thanks for any help.
(FYI -- I have a Blue and White G3 tower upgraded to a G4 450, 1GB RAM, a SCSI card, an extra IDE card, 3 hard drives and various FireWire and USB attachments.)
[ 09-19-2001: Message edited by: welborn ]
[ 09-19-2001: Message edited by: welborn ]
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