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TV Tuner in OSX
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Do any of these exist?
If so are any of them on PCI cards (which I would prefer) are formac supporting/going to support there PCI TV tuner under OSX (don't really need or want to pay for the Studio).
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If you look up "tv darwin" in the search feature, you will get links to a number of threads about a driver/app combo that is in the Darwin project that will allow you to watch TV on cheap WinTel PCI cards under MacOS X (not under X-11 in Darwin though...).
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Thanx for the info
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Sorry I'll have to take the thank you back as I couldn't find anything for tv darwin under ANYWHERE in these forums, if you read this post again could you tell the exact search criteria to use and which forum to search?
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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There were several long threads - if you search the X open discusstion for TV tuner - but the sourceforge project is here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtv/
They are trying to get it all working... I wish them luck. Sometimes I wish I could code so I contribute to some of these projects...
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as far as a driver from formac, a couple of noths ago i got an e-mail from them with a surver asking question like how much would you be willing to pay for it. I personally was kind of anoyed that they planed on making me pay for one if they ever did develope one.
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I've been trying to get a driver for an ixTv card for months. No one has come up with anything yet but Sourceforge seems to be working the hardest on it. Actually I would love to find a driver for an ATI All-in-Wonder card. These are Rage 128 or Radeon video cards with a built in tuner which use only one PCI slot. Windoz has had them for a few years but there are no Mac drivers. I should think that the acceleration side of the card would be handled by the ATI drivers included in OS 9 and 10 but whether the TV needs a separate driver I don't know. Sure would be nice if the included drivers could be used with BTV to end up with a working set up.
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Why wait for something that's been out for some time?
Though it's not a PCI card I consider my MyTV/fm to be extremely nice and reliable. Eskape Labs has had OS X drivers for months now and they work great.
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Originally posted by zos:
<STRONG>Why wait for something that's been out for some time?
Though it's not a PCI card I consider my MyTV/fm to be extremely nice and reliable. Eskape Labs has had OS X drivers for months now and they work great.</STRONG>
Yes, i've looked at MyTV/FM as well, but unfortunately you're limited to USB-based capture with (at best 320x240) resolution and (more importantly) none of the truly revolutionary features found on the AIW series (ex: scheduled recording of programs - TiVO, RF remote, dual-display output, digital audio out, hardware-accelerated DVD playback, etc).
Unfortunately there's WORLDS of difference between USB-based products like MyTV and ATi's AIW cards. From what i've read, you're basically talking about getting best-of-class DVD playback rivaling even top-notch standalone DVD players for around $200. Not too shabby an argument for convergence if you ask me.
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Formac released an OS X driver a few months ago - Free. Worked well though I haven't used it much lately. There was no problem just a changing lifestyle.
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Originally posted by neutrino23:
<STRONG>Formac released an OS X driver a few months ago - Free. Worked well though I haven't used it much lately. There was no problem just a changing lifestyle.</STRONG>
I got the Formac studio yesterday. It works in both OS9 and OSX, although I recommend you download the OS X driver from the Formac site rather than using the one on the CD.
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Originally posted by rmansfield:
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I got the Formac studio yesterday. It works in both OS9 and OSX, although I recommend you download the OS X driver from the Formac site rather than using the one on the CD.</STRONG>
Here's the question that's been buggin me... can you use the TV recording software for the higher priced ($999) Formac DV/TVR model with the Formac DV/TV + internal hard drive?
$999 is an absurd amount of money just to store the data on Formac's drive.
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