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I’ve been running HDPVRCapture on 10.6 and looking for any obvious compatibility issues, the good news is that I can’t find any direct problems. I have found one indirect issue related to QuickTime Player X (v10) which is now the default on my MacPro. (Unrelated: My previous installation of QuickTime Pro v7 was relegated during the upgrade but is still available for use when you right click on a file and choose to “Open With -> QuickTime Player 7″).

I’ve added a specific 10.6 section to the FAQ which describes a common issue I’ve seen with QT v10 related to AC3 audio inside mov/mp4 and MKV containers. It’s a little disappointing that certain audio codec types that played perfectly with QuickTime in 10.5 now have issues with newer QuickTime builds.

FAQ Updates here: http://www.steventoth.net/blog/products/hdpvr-capture/faq/#106

If you find any other 10.6 issue that you’d like me to investigate then feel free to contact me. My details are on the About page.

Our friend Brent Evans over at GeekTonic.com has a great post on purchasing the HDPVR for $150 from Dell before 8/31/09.

Why not hop over to Brent’s Blog and show him some love!

Over the last 10 days a number of people have reported a major bug with v2.5.0. They have been experiencing noticeable video glitches during recording when the encoding bitrate reaches > 8Mbps for a sustained periods of time. This could also be observed by the HDPVR lights flashing, going out and coming back on.

I’m releasing v2.5.2 today to fix this issue. So, one major bugfix in this release, but I recommend it to all users.

You can review the change log in the release page for more information. As always, a demo is available for download.

You might be interested in this:

http://www.geektonic.com/2009/07/deal-of-day-hauppauge-hd-pvr-150-with.html

HDPVR from Dell $150 plus free shipping, offer expires July 29th.

A fantastic price.

I’m happy to announce the v2.5.0 release, it’s been a very long time coming. It’s been three months since the last major release and v2.5.0 contains quite a large number of changes. Bug fixes, cleanups, important IR related fixes. Quicktime related fixes enable true 5.1 support. Zap2it changes, post processing related changes for concurrent processing. Support for a new UK BSKYB STB.

It’s worth reviewing the change log in the release page for more information. As always, a demo is available for download.

www.geektonic.com is reporting that Dell has a fantastic deal on the HDPVR for $165.

The HDPVR deals have slowed down lately but this is a great price.

A HDPVRCapture customer just pointed out that v2.4.1 PPC MP4 conversion is broken on v.2.4.1 production build and the 2.5.0 betas.

Expect a fix this weekend.

The HDPVR’s on sale at $153… article via geektonic:

http://www.geektonic.com/2009/03/deal-of-day-hauppauge-hd-pvr-165_23.html

Offer ends March 31st.

I find myself keep saying this but…. this is the lowest price I’ve ever seen.

Enjoy!

Recent changes made by the Zap2It web developers broke HDPVRCapture, thanks to a customer for pointing this out. This is now fixed (but may not perfect).

Also I’m happy to announce MASSIVE improvements to the post processing conversion mechanism, specifically to resolutions that HDPVRCapture can convert and overall conversion time.

In releases prior to 2.4.1, or a MacPro, HDPVRCapture took 10-15 minutes to convert a 2 hour movie into a MP4, now it takes 40 seconds.

In release prior to 2.4.1 HDPVRCapture could only support 720 for MP4 conversion, now HDPVRCapture can convert all resolutions supported by the HDPVR hardware (1080i/720p/480i) with any of the HDPVR supported audio codecs (AAC 2.0, AC3 2.0 or AC3 5.1) into a MP4, an also do it very quickly.

Checkout the change log on the release page for more information. As always, a demo is available for download.

Adding support for the Zap2It web EPG (useful if you’re Canadian or you don’t like TitanTV). Also a bugfix related to editing/burning HDPVRCapture recordings using Toast. Checkout the change log on the release page for more information. As always, a demo is available for download.