Elgato Eyetv 3.3

[Devil rolla]

Got the email this morning. Sneaky buggers have a webapp so you can watch tv over 3g now to bypass the apple/AT&T issue.

Update to EyeTV 3.3

EyeTV 3.3 is now available and is a free software update for EyeTV 3 users. To update your software, launch EyeTV and select "Check for Updates" in the EyeTV menu, or click here.


Support for the new Live3G Web app

EyeTV 3.3 adds support for a new web app, Live3G, which enables you to watch live television on an iPhone anywhere over a 3G connection. The Live3G web app runs in the Safari browser on your iPhone. It's free and is available at https://live3g.eyetv.com.

The Live3G Web app is a nice complement to the EyeTV iPhone app. It does what the iPhone app cannot do, because Apple's agreement with AT&T prohibits iPhone apps that stream live TV over the cellular/3G network.

What's more, Web apps have access to TV-out on your iPhone. So as an added benefit of Live3G, you can watch live and recorded TV on a big screen television or projector by connecting your iPhone with a compatible cable.

Learn more:

Compare the Live3G web app with the EyeTV app
Your EyeTV on your iPhone
What are Web apps?
Watching videos on a TV with your iPhone


64-bit

EyeTV 3.3 now runs the H.264 video decoder as a 64-bit process. The H.264 video decoder is by far the most CPU-intensive part of EyeTV, and moving it to 64-bit has improved playback performance on Intel Macs with 64-bit processors by 10-20%.

Learn more:

How to tell if your Intel-based Mac has a 32-bit or 64-bit processor
About 64-bit computing

[ajbeardy]

Just tested this, works quite well. Will depend on your signal strength..I wonder how much data it will use.

The new remotes now work also...Yeah.

[Silver]

I wish they'd let you download the update and update remotely. Not having internet access on the computer where I'm running EyeTV makes the upgrade process annoying.

[Anthonyw]

As a bonus u can use the web app on your mac to watch over the net too. These guys are brilliant. I would have happily paid for that. I have nothing but praise for elgato. Best piece of third party software/hardware I have bought in ages (and it just works!)

[dotnet]

EyeTV 3.3 now runs the H.264 video decoder as a 64-bit process. The H.264 video decoder is by far the most CPU-intensive part of EyeTV, and moving it to 64-bit has improved playback performance on Intel Macs with 64-bit processors by 10-20%.

Sadly, digital FTA TV in Australia used MPEG2, not H.264.

Cheers
Steffen.

[Lutze]

Sadly, digital FTA TV in Australia used MPEG2, not H.264.

Cheers
Steffen.

I think this refers to when you export a MPEG2 file to work on AppleTV / iPod / iPhone - as it's re-encoding it to H.264.

As you can see from this list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T#Countries_and_territories_using_DVB-T) very few places are using H.264 for broadcast just yet.

[forno]

Anyone else having issues recording?

I updated my eyetv version 2.x to Version 3 and then to 3.3 lastnight and now it wont record an upcoming show.

I have icetv and it is giving me the current guide, yet when i click on any show it has now info attached to it.

I managed to record by setting up a schedule, not ideal but atleast I got the show.

[gikku]

similar issue.
the recording schedule always defaults to 1/1/2000, or is it 2001? whatever.
It's unusable.