It’s time for some bug fixes!
Changes:
- Two bugfixes related to crashing on startup with 10.4 Tiger.
As always, this is a beta so your milage may vary. All comments and feedback are welcome on the AVS forum HDPVR thread. Download it from here.
HDPVRCapture v2.0.2-b1 ready for download
Jan 7th, 2009 by StevenToth
HDPVRCapture v2.0.1-b1 is here!
Jan 6th, 2009 by StevenToth
It’s time for some bug fixes!
Changes:
- Bugfixes related to running on 10.4 Tiger.
- Minor cleanup of some of the menu item names.
- Bugfix related to hanging on startup if iCal isn’t running.
- Bugfix related to ‘Unable to display schedule’ error messages on startup.
As always, this is a beta so your milage may vary. All comments and feedback are welcome on the AVS forum HDPVR thread. Download it from here.
HDPVRCapture v2.0.0-b1 is available for download!
Jan 4th, 2009 by StevenToth
If you’re not interested in crusty old command line application, and you want a familiar Mac OS GUI then you’re in for a treat. The 2.0.0 beta has been released. Download it from here. What’s new? Well, a lot has changed.
Major improvements:
- A brand new graphical UI with simple point and click options.
- Support for scheduling via TitanTV. Go to Titan’s site, click on a show, the tvpi file will download. Click on this file and it should automatically open with HDPVRCapture, confirm the details and it gets added to your iCal. Voila! Scheduled recordings, very simple.
- You don’t use titan? Try Command-N to manually add a scheduled recording
- Use your zipcode to help configure HDPVRCapture, this will download the cable/satellite networks for your area, and automatically store the channel names in HDPVRCapture, so you can pick you recording channel by name, not by number. Now you don’t have to remember that scifi is on channel 48, just select SCIFI-HD from the channel selection list.
- The Preference page let’s you enter you license key, configure Titan _AND_ has a radically new IR Blaster configuration screen. No more complicated command line options.
- Drag and drop your previous recordings into the post processing tab, right click and chose a post processing task and chose Run from the menu. I.E Simplified post processing with support for automatic addition to itunes.
- Intelligent controls in the UI. If you select a feature that is incompatible with another feature, the application automatically adjusts itself. No more complicated command line options which are hard to understand.
As always, this is a beta so your milage may vary. All comments and feedback are welcome on the AVS forum HDPVR thread.
HDPVRCapture v1.3.3 has been released
Jan 2nd, 2009 by StevenToth
Checkout the change log on the release page for more information. As always, a demo is available for download.
HDPVRCapture v1.3.2 has been released
Dec 30th, 2008 by StevenToth
Checkout the change log on the release page for more information. As always, a demo is available for download.
v2 progress? How about a screenshot?
Dec 28th, 2008 by StevenToth
Here’s a sneak peak screenshot of the v2 app capturing some content. I expect v2 to be released in the next 10-14 days!
HDPVRCapture v1.3.1 has been released
Dec 28th, 2008 by StevenToth
Checkout the change log on the release page for more information. As always, a demo is available for download.
Enjoy!
Status update v2.x
Dec 2nd, 2008 by StevenToth
I need to step away from v2.x development for a couple of weeks so things will go quiet. I’ll be traveling but I wanted to give you and update on how it’s coming along. 
Over the last 2-3 weeks I’ve been refining the UI and getting the workflow correct, adding Preference panels and system defaults so you have the ability to personalize various settings. The ability to have one-click- encoder profiles will probably slip out to v2.1 sadly. Scheduling support will be native in v2.x. Post processing will be easier to use. The new IR blaster configuration screens improve the blaster configuration support massively, and converting various xml configuration files into sqllite databases has massively improved the responsiveness of the UI.
Things are coming along nicely and I think you’re going to like the new application.
More soon!
HDPVRCapture v1.3.0 has been released
Nov 25th, 2008 by StevenToth
Checkout the change log on the release page for more information. Some command line changes related to verbosity, dealing with device in use issues, a Monitoring Video related fix to avoid large numbers of duplicate errors. As always, a demo is available for download.
Enjoy!
Streaming HDPVR recordings via UPnP to the PS3
Nov 24th, 2008 by StevenToth
Background: In terms of the HDPVR, if your output filename ends in either .ts or .m2ts the recording contains exactly the same video/audio content, it’s only a difference in the filename extension. Why? To ensure better support in other applications.
A number of people have emailed and asked me how to stream .ts and .m2ts recordings via UPnP to a PS3 for playback. I use the excellent MediaTomb [link] application, which happens to be OpenSource and customizable. Why burn recordings to disk just to play them back, right?
Part of the problem with the MediaTomb is that it’s default configuration file ($HOME/.mediatomb/config.xml) is not going to work properly with the PS3, or the HDPVR. So, here’s the configuration file that I use [link] and it’s working pretty reliably for me.
Right click and download this file, rename to config.xml and install this into your environment, overwriting your current configuration file. In my case:
mv mediatomb.config.xml $HOME/.mediatomb/config.xml
Restart MediaTomb then enjoy!