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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.

An important bugfix related to how the PS3 calculates the duration of a recording. Checkout the change log on the release page for more information. As always, a demo is available for download.

One feature improvement that probably should of been in v2.1.0. Checkout the change log on the release page for more information. As always, a demo is available for download.

A mixture of bugfixes, cleanups and small new features. Checkout the change log on the release page for more information. As always, a demo is available for download.

For a number of months I’ve made reference to the fact that I stream my HDPVRCapture recordings to my PS3 over the network. I never have to burn a disk or waste my time with environment unfriendly pieces of plastic. Why should you?

If streaming over the network is something that interests you then I’ve put together a project called HDPVRStreamer here. It’s a donation-ware project based on a great GPL project known as MediaTomb. The software is free and unrestricted.

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

A friend of HDPVRcapture, describing the AC3 passthrough Quicktime problems, writes….

“What’s really annoying about this (as noted in many other places) is that Apple has a working AC3-in-MOV passthrough method that’s up and running on AppleTVs right now. They use it for their own HD “rental” downloads. But they won’t release the info to developers.”

I couldn’t agree more Will.

See the AVSForum thread here.

Cheapest price I’ve ever seen online…. Today and today only, HDPVR’s from Dell at $173. http://www.geektonic.com/2009/02/deal-of-day-hauppauge-hd-pvr-173.html

I’ve been having a lot of discussions related to the Quicktime 7.6 and AC3 passthrough problem.

My initial thoughts on AVSForum are here:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=15793868#post15793868

Feedback on the issue for various other apps and products are here:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8950477

… and here

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=15788699#post15788699

… and here

http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=19226

… and here

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1117875