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On 2/20/2021 at 10:10 AM, ripple said:

Good luck with that. I suspect v4 has been abandoned. In the UK I find it completely unusable as in almost all cases, it bakes narration audio into the soundtrack.

 

Thank you to rtraill and v8pasi!

 

In my defense,  that post was a year and a half ago before Eyetv 4 was even released.

and I gave up on Geniatech and am now happily running a Tablo

Looking for an alternative,  I ended up jumping ship and getting a Tablo which has been pretty solid, the automatic commercial skip detection works about half the time but using the Tablo with Tablo tools gives me everything that Eyetv gave me and in many ways, a better interface.  the best part is it streams to my hand held devices far better then eyetv ever did for me.

There are many reasons why people are moving forward with OS upgrades,  some of it is drivin by other apps that we need for other functions that no longer support the older OS.  

if you go this route, you will want Tablotools

https://jessedp.github.io/tablo-tools-electron/#downloads

I've been watching EyeTV 4 for a year now waiting to upgrade my Mac Mini to Catalina and over the past year, I've come to the conclusion that EyeTV 4 is buggy as heck and it doesn't seem to be getting fixed anytime soon.  I will continue to watch it because I loved EyeTV 3 and also have an EyeTV hybrid which I love.    I've been pretty impressed with the Tablo over the last week and a half that I have had it, I would say that the auto commercial skip is a bit hit and miss but the appletv interface is really nice and having the guide pop up with posters images for the shows is a big step up from anything I've ever gotten from my EyeTV.   

the Tablo only records broadcast TV,  if you are looking for something to record from HDMI,  you might look at some HDMI capture cards (HDMI - USB)  and then use quicktime to capture.  You might have to put anHDMI EDID in line as well if the card won't talk tot he HDMI source.

I gave up and bought a Tablo,  and am using Tablo Tools and am happy with the decision so far

I gave up on eyetv over the weekend,  after nearly 10 years with my eyetv,  and more then 2 years without a working update I gave up on eyetv and moved on to a Tablo, and over the few days I've been really happy so far,  using the free "tablotools" software I can download files directly off my Tablo to my mac,  and it streams to my appletv.  

I'm sad to depart eyetv,  there was so much right with it until it was abandoned.

a bit of spam for me today, but the first time in a  month I could check and see if any progress is being made on v4

18 hours ago, Nakrul said:

I am having the same problem too, will there be a bugfix release in the near future?

I suspect that geniatech is focused on getting the 64 bit version up and running and I suspect that v3 is now abandoned..so yes, I suspect v4 will fix this issue.

I suspect that the move to 64 bit was also partially responsible for the tv guide crash which I'm sure pulled focus from the 64 bit app.. so while I still have issues with 7528 and my eyetvHD  I would much rather them focus on getting us a v4 with 64 bit support then some of this minor other issues in 5 year old software.  

thanks jpmist27,  I've always wondered how well those things work.. also on a similar note,  I use Quicktime Pro 7 to open the compressed movies and cut commercials out,  what are people using now that Quicktime Pro is obsolete.. I know you can use the newer quicktime, but I've found it glitchy, and it wasn't to re-encode the videos after they have been edited.

Yes, let the cattle run free...

I'm digging deeper into the odd time thing,  I still can't figure it out,  but I do have hooked up to my mac mini, both an EyeTV HD and an eyetv Hybrid.  I use the HD to record things from my satellite, and the hybrid to record off air.  this time shift issue only seems to affect the HD.  

Problem is I can't change the eyetv guide,  any time I try no matter how I try the application crashes.

I installed 7528 and didn't have the great experience others did.. 

First, I was unable to get the program guide to recognize more then 2 channels,  after digging I realized that those 2 channels were just getting ATSC guide, not the guide from Geniatech.  

I then performed the suggested the EyeTV Reporter uninstall  and reinstalled eyetv.  I performed a channel search.  every channel came up with ATSC guide, If I try to switch any of them to the Geniatech guide eyetv crashes.  

last,  set up to record and noticed that it seems to randomly start recording no necessarily at the time scheduled,  so if I set it to record at 10:00 it will start recording at 9:59;27 I will be swapping back to an earlier version until 7529 comes out.

While I Believe that eyetv is about to become a much loved product from our past,  there is a part of me that is hopeful that the long lag in getting the TV Guide back running is because they are actually devoting their energy into creating a 64 bit version of the software.

I updated about a month ago, but have not been getting updates.  I hope they get this fixed by Feb 4th because that's when I run out

Same problem in the US with the TV guide EPG

I heard from Geniatech and it is a known bug,  the subscription did renew it just doesn't show up as renewed.. and it does appear to be updating the schedule

so I just tried renewing my tvguide subscription and upon clicking the link in the sent e-mail, it behaved as if it had updated my subscription, but it didn't update within eyetv..There is a code link in the e-mail which I recommend using. I'm trying to fix the issue with geniatech, because now that the system thinks I've updated it won't let me update my subscription manually.

Mac running OS 10.12.6 Sierra having the same problem.. installed the update and it won't recognize eyetv HD hardware - No Signal -  fortunately like the others I always keep the previous version of eyetv because this isn't the first time I've had this issue with Geniatech