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Response to mac mini as video recorder
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Hello,
I wrote the scripts for recording off certain FireWire equipped set top boxes to use your Mac to record HDTV or SDTV. How-to's are there on the site.
There is also iRecord written by another member at avsforum dot com.
No extra hardware aside from your Firewire-equipped cable box, Mac and display is required. You can also use a Firewire-equipped over-the-air HDTV tuner with your Mac and display for recording and playback using VirtualDVHS.
Joe
edited to add some info
(Last edited by Joe's iMac G4; Jan 21, 2005 at 08:10 PM.
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nice. so an el gato box is not needed if we have one of these cable boxes?
nice...
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This AVSForum threadon on Mac OS X FireWire recording provides the background on recording using a Mac. I am jsb_hburg on avsforum. iRecord came out after the scripts. You can try either. I use iRecord since it evolved from Apple's VirtualDVHS and AVCBrowser from Firewire SDK 18.
You would have to use VLC for playback. This is just an alternative if you do not have $350 burning a hole in your pocket.
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I don't think I'd try it with a 4200 rpm laptop drive, but that's just me. Windows Media PCs all have to use SATA drives as regulated by MS (those are the PCs that record video from your TV remotely, etc). Good luck.
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Originally posted by recogniser:
I don't think I'd try it with a 4200 rpm laptop drive, but that's just me. Windows Media PCs all have to use SATA drives as regulated by MS (those are the PCs that record video from your TV remotely, etc). Good luck.
A 4200rpm drive should work just fine for standard def. video.
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