EyeTV 4: EyeTV 3: Watch, pause, and rewind live TV on your Mac: Yes: Yes: Set up schedules to record your favorite TV programs: Yes: Yes: Edit out unwanted content: Yes: Yes: Share recordings with other Macs on the same network: Yes: Yes: OS Support: macOS 10.14(Mojave). Geniatech (who took over EyeTV from Elgato) has released the 64bit version of EyeTV for macOS 10.15 Catalina. It’s simply called EyeTV 4 and is available now from the Geniatech website: eyetv 4 (64-bit) macOS. EyeTV Netstream 4C requires an Android device with a 1 GHz or faster dual-core ARM CPU and Android 4.0.3 (“Ice Cream Sandwich”) or later. Playback of MPEG-4/H.264 video requires a processor with NEON support (e.g. OS X 10.9 or later. Windows 8 or later, 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (or comparable), sound card.
The EyeTV 250 is Elgato’s follow-up to its successful EyeTV 200 ( ) product. Like the 200 model, it is an analog TV tuner with a built-in MPEG encoder (digital cable or satellite subscribers need to go through their converter box). It lets you watch live TV on your Mac or schedule recordings, which you can easily archive to DVD or your video iPod.
Buy iPad accessories. Get the most from your iPad with cases, covers, Beats headphones, Bluetooth keyboards and more. Eyetv 4.x for Mac 64 - bit (public beta + preview. Update v20191025 /vEyeTV4.0.0b8(8511): thank for great, value and open feedback, please keep on doing so, following fixes, in.
The EyeTV 250 requires a single 500MHz G4 or greater and OS X 10.4. Since the unit has a hardware MPEG encoder — unlike Elgato’s other product, the EyeTV Hybrid ( )—the computer processor is only minimally taxed when recording even the highest quality MPEG-2 video.
Whereas the EyeTV 200 was a FireWire device, for the EyeTV 250, Elgato chose to go with a USB 2.0 interface. Though the move to USB doesn’t affect the quality of TV recordings, the 250 now requires an external power supply rather than being bus-powered. It’s not a big deal, but I never seem to have a free electrical socket.
The EyeTV 250 can record TV programs as either MPEG-2 (for DVD) or MPEG-1 (suitable for Video CD). These recordings can be edited with the included EyeTV 2 ( ) software to remove commercials and unwanted material. You can even pick a specific section of your recording to export. EyeTV 2 is tightly integrated with Toast 7 (not included), making it easy to make DVDs of your recorded TV programs. The EyeTV 2 software also has a button for single-click video iPod export.
Elgato Eyetv Hybrid Software Download
Elgato includes a breakout cable with S-video and composite RCA video connectors with the EyeTV 250. Using this cable and the included VHS Assistant software, you can create digital backups of your old VHS home movies. You can also plug in a gaming console so you can play games on your Mac’s monitor. Normally, this would be difficult with a device that contains a hardware encoder, which usually adds a delay while rendering the screen. But Elgato lets you turn off the hardware encoder while in game mode, so there is no delay.
Elgato’s EyeTV 2 software is the premium TV recording software available for the Mac today. EyeTV 2 works seamlessly with TitanTV to schedule recordings. You can even access program schedules from within EyeTV 2 (the previous version of EyeTV required you to go to the TitanTV Web site). In a recent update, Elgato added a Front Row-like full screen mode for their software. You can now navigate, schedule recordings, and play video from your couch, all via a supplied remote control, or with an Apple Remote.
Macworld’s buying advice
The EyeTV 250 is a great personal video recorder for Mac users. This is a particularly useful unit if you have a slower Mac, as the hardware encoder ensures high quality recordings without stressing the computer’s processor.
[ Anton Linecker is a writer and video technical consultant living in Los Angeles. ]
EyeTV 250Question :
Since I upgraded to macOS 10.15 Catalina, I had to buy the new version of my beloved EyeTV app. So after buying the all new EyeTV 4 (64bit) at Geniatech (who took over EyeTV from Elgato) I installed the app, but whenever I try to run it, I get an “Application not responding” error. I have tried reinstalling the app, but that doesn’t help. I’ve also tried to download and install a newer version, but that doesn’t help either. Deleting the preferences (using the EyeTVreporter.app) doesn’t help either. Even uninstalling EyeTV and all associated files completely (using the EyeTVreporter.app) and then reinstalling doesn’t fix this either…
This is so strange, because EyeTV 4 Beta was running fine on this same Mac…
What can I do ?
Solution :
Eyetv 4 Mac Activation Key
The problem is not in EyeTV, it’s in the new extremely strict security and privacy settings that are new to macOS 10.15 Catalina.
To fix this, do this :
- quit the EyeTV app by clicking on it’s icon in the Dock while pressing the ALT-key on your keyboard
- in the popup menu, the regular ‘Quit’ option will now turn into ‘Force Quit’
- click on ‘Force Quit’ and make sure EyeTV app is quit (so there is no longer a black dot below it’s icon in the Dock)
- click on the Apple-icon in the top menu bar of your screen
- from the pulldown menu select System Preferences
- make sure you are in the System Preferences window (main window), if not, click the ‘dots in a grid’-button in the top menu bar of the window
- in the System Preferences window, click on Security & Privacy (iron Home icon with circular dial on it)
- in the Security & Privacy window, click on the ‘Privacy’ tab
- in list on the left, click on ‘Files and Folders’
- in the list that now appears on the right, scroll down to EyeTV and put a checkmark at ‘Documents Folder’
- if you get a popup warning “EyeTV will not have access to files in your documents folder until it is quit” click the “Quit Now”-button
- then close the System Preferences window
- and restart the EyeTV 64bit app
That’s it !
Eyetv 4 Activation Key
enjoy 😉