[agentdavo]

1). Support for Netceiver - a network based multi tuner. Similar to HDHomeRun but far more powerful.
http://www.linsat.net/reelbox/doc/NetCeiver.pdf
http://www.reel-multimedia.com/en/shop_netceiver.php

2). More EPG data made available in the Applescript library - for instance Movie, Rating etc.

3). Smart guide - is a movie, is a tv channel/radio. Smart Guide priority so that a certain smart guide has highest priority if clashes.

[macite]

1) Dedicated control mode with full featured access entirely using a remote (watching and recording - not editing). EyeTV runs fullscreen and all operations are controlled from large font menus designed to be read from a distance. Allows smart guides to be created/edited, shows to be recorded and watched, etc. Ideally with all control activated via a 3 or 5 button remote (directions + ok) - done with intelligent contextually aware menus.

2) ... see 1

3) ... see 1

[ristQws]

1. Support for NetCeiver.
2. MultiPIP.
3. Streaming from Dreamboxes.

[BJWanlund]

First of all, thank you Elgato for creating this forum to vent our frustrations regarding the EyeTV software! I know I have some major frustrations, and I’d love some help, either from the Elgato folks in fixing this problem or from some of the forum peeps. My preference is a) not to buy any new hardware, and b) not to buy any new software. But if it cannot be avoided, I’m game!

Okay, this may seem a bit out-of-place, but whenever I try to change my aspect ratio (I’m in EyeTV 2.5.3 right now) on ANY standard definition sources (i.e. cable) in an effort to keep the image quality either the same or make it better, the image is squished to compensate. I don’t really care for that.

Next, I’d like to know how Game Mode works in EyeTV as a menu option. I know it works on my Elgato EyeTV 250 (absolutely fantastic product, btw), but it doesn’t seem to be a menu option when I have my 3rd-party Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick connected. It would really make more sense to make that STANDARD across the board, but if you can’t, I can certainly understand.

Also, I’ll second the Antenna Placement Wizard. The satellite companies have this, why not EyeTV? It would make our lives so much easier!

Also seconding the Export Wizard. Maybe I just want a TV show that’s high enough quality (FULL SCREEN, mind you) that would be PERFECT for viewing inside Front Row. I want to be able to do that, amazing as that may sound.

BJ

[Nick Freeman]

I'll comment about one thing you can use now.

Visit the Devices Preferences. Under encoding, the options that are available depend on what kind of product you're using.

If you have EyeTV 250 or EyeTV 250 Plus, then turning Game Mode on will reduce the delay, which is good for console gameplay.

If you have an USB stick, like EyeTV Hybrid, or something from Pinnacle or Hauppauge, then it may have an option to "Enable Timeshift". Turn that off to reduce the delay, which is good for console gameplay.

[narkspud]

FM recording in uncompressed AIFF.

[frido]

Support for Proxy Servers (when updating the tvtv EPG).

Bye, Frido.

[Noel]

1) Stability. The program crashes a lot. Or at least the beta version I was using until recently did.

2) Game mode. I would like to see this extended to the Eye TV hybrid.

3) Bluetooth Remote. The IR remote is not nearly as convenient for me as a bluetooth remote would be.

[Nick Freeman]

2) Game mode. I would like to see this extended to the Eye TV hybrid.

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Visit the Devices Preferences. Under encoding, the options that are available depend on what kind of product you're using.

If you have EyeTV 250 or EyeTV 250 Plus, then turning Game Mode on will reduce the delay, which is good for console gameplay.

If you have an USB stick, like EyeTV Hybrid, or something from Pinnacle or Hauppauge, then it may have an option to "Enable Timeshift". Turn that off to reduce the delay, which is good for console gameplay.

Game Mode (250 Plus) = no Timeshift (Hybrid)

[fred@akela.no]

I want this feature on eyetv:
http://www.equinux.com/us/products/ipho ... index.html

I will not switch to TubeStick if you make this feature soon.

[cpliske]

1. some sort of support for multiple tuners. Minimal support would be to recognize that a particular tuner can't tune a particular band, e.g. my hybrid can tune either cable or air, but not both as it only has one antenna connection. so if I connect it to cable it can't tune atsc channels, but if there's an atsc tuner connected, currently the hybrid might be selected for ATSC use. It simply fails to record!

2. Some form of improvement in resource usage. I have a dual intel mini and often my playback is so stuttered that I quite using eyetv and bring up VLC to play the recording. It's much smoother and uses quite a bit less cpu resources to play!

3. Improve tuner sensitivity. My old 500 can receive qam cable channels that the very recent hybrid can't even recognize as there, or receives in fits and starts. And the 500 can't come close in sensitivity to the tuner built into the tv!

[sjk]

#1:
Make it easy to default the storage of recordings to an external Hard Disk Drive (HDD).

Easier than changing "EyeTV Archive" Location under the Recording tab of Preferences?

#2:
Enable programmed timer recording by specifying:
- start time
- stop time
- channel

How does that differ from clicking the New button in the Schedules pane toolbar and using the New Schedule window?

#4:
Make getting the ENTIRE viewing screen totally easy.
The Apple clutter on the viewing screen, AND the elgato controller are needless distractions.

Use Window > {Hide|Show} Controller (Control-C) to toggle its visibility. View > {Enter|Exit} Full Screen (Command-0), or Escape to Exit, is active during playback and editing.

[rackerby]

I suppose multi-tuner support has been mentioned here ad nauseum, but what I would really like is the ability to assign a given channel to a given tuner.
If I could do that, I'd put up a second antenna to receive SF Bay Area stations (I'm near Sacramento, CA). I'd have a Sacramento tuner and an SF tuner.

[mklcolvin]

1: I'd like to see support for multiple storage areas. I'd like to be able to use my internal HD as video storage until it reaches a pre-set limit (say, the drive is 80% full), then all new recordings would be stored on my external drive. Of course, when the Recordings Library is browsed, it will show videos from both areas.

2: I'd like to see direct support for remote controls, such as my Harmony remotes. Using it as an Apple Remote is such a pain for such things as changing channels. I'd like to be able to change channels by clicking '2-5-6' on the number keys on my remote, if I wanted to change to channel 256. Right now, I have to scroll through the channel list, or scroll through the Guide.

3. Speaking of the Guide, I'd like the ability to jump a screenful of listings at a time, both up/down (from groups of channels on the screen to another), but also jumps in time, left/right.

[sjk]

3. Speaking of the Guide, I'd like the ability to jump a screenful of listings at a time, both up/down (from groups of channels on the screen to another), but also jumps in time, left/right.

It's tempting to start a new topic just to collect a list Guide-related navigation/browsing suggestions like that. Even most online web site program guides support features that EyeTV still lacks, e.g. easily browsing multiple days for a selected channel; that shouldn't require using a Smart Guide.

[alexjohnson]

1. Reliability.
2. Reliability.
3. Reliability.

I've been a repeat customer since January 2005 (original Mac mini launch). I have bought a 410, Diversity, and 310 - and a DTT as a gift. I also bought the Turbo.264, and I have a paid upgrade to v.3. I like what you've tried to do. I like being able to take my shows and put them on other devices. I like that I don't have to pay subscriptions. And I like that I can use my Mac mini for everything from TV to DVD to radio to downloaded video.

But every time I go on holiday, something seems to happen when I'm not there to babysit EyeTV. On the latest version a week or so ago, despite being told not to sleep in Energy Saving Preferences, the Mac mini went to sleep. Despite EyeTV being told to wake up every hour to check schedules, it didn't, or if it did, it still didn't record anything. And, because most of my recordings are now set as Season Passes (or whatever it's called), I note even the missed schedules now disappear within seconds of bringing up the Schedule Recordings screen, so you're not even sure what you missed. This happens with annoying frequency - not these circumstances, but some glitch or other when I am away, and least able to do something about it.

Normally I leave EyeTV in full screen mode all the time (and simply switch off the TV). This is a belt-and-suspenders approach to the sleep problem. On this occasion unfortunately I didn't.

This is the latest iteration - no doubt something small, or some bug. The one weird thing about this was that EyeTV did not crash - that's the usual cause. But honestly, it's always something. Indeed, after one violent crash I now routinely export things I don't want to miss to iTunes. Yet earlier this year, we were dealing with the Turbo export crashes.

I think EyeTV needs a Snow Leopard makeover. By that I think it needs someone to go through it, ideally _removing_ features and options, and making sure the product works solidly. So:
- an option that just says "when EyeTV is running do not allow sleep", ticked by default. Caffeine does this.
- Use that launch daemon so that EyeTV always restarts after a crash, again an option, again on by default. (I have the option for EyeTV to start automatically, and for the Mac to restart after a power failure. Post crash there's not much I can do, is there?)
- A mouse cursor which ALWAYS goes away in full screen mode after 5 or 10 seconds (it appears when the show has been paused for long enough for the screen saver to come on).
- A full screen mode in which the menu bar ALWAYS goes away after 5 or 10 seconds, even if the mouse has been left there. (Same I guess for Dock for those who don't hide.) And, one which hides any other menu items trying to force their way through, e.g. Western Digital icon, bouncing Dock apps. Full screen means full screen, as per Apple Front Row, or even iTunes which might be a better example as it allows the mouse cursor.
- Sharing which works as consistently as it does in Front Row, or iTunes, or non-Apple virtual KVM solutions like Teleport. EyeTV's is VERY unreliable. And, sharing a common library doesn't work as if you watch a recording in progress on another machine (e.g. tell living room to record, stream to bedroom) the recording will not stop and carries on till the entire hard drive is full. (Unless this bug has been fixed?) On my bedroom iMac, I probably have to quit and restart EyeTV about half the time to get sharing to work. More rarely - maybe one in 20 times - and I have to use my laptop with Screen Sharing to the Mac mini and iMac toggling the sharing options till something comes up. This is not "it just works." EyeTV is unique of my apps in its flakely Bonjour implemetation. (Both Macs are connected via a hard-wired LAN by the way - and this isn't to use this post troubleshoot, but rather to say I've check a great many of the obvious things and I think I'm right to use words such as "bug" and "flakey" as whatever I might be inadvertently "doing," it cannot be the case that the software was designed to work this way. And I most commonly use Teleport to "fix" this, and if it can see both Macs, why can't EyeTV?)
- No random ""empty blue screen" on start-up in full screen. Indeed, no lack of QA which would allow this one to get through.

If there were a feature request it would be:
- Option to delete from library on successful export.
- Option to delete a watched show from host machine when using sharing.
But, I would just like EyeTV to be ROCK SOLID and for the features it already has to work first time, every time, as a "reasonable person" would expect. Of course from time to time freakish things will happen and it will crash. But freakish things are by definition freakish. I echo the comments elsewhere - please don't dedicate resources to an iPhone app till the apps you do have are more dependable.

Others may disagree. And sorry to come across as negative. But after four and a half years of use to find I still can't just trust that it will have worked is annoying.

[Frank360]

1 - DVB-S2 8PSK compatible receiver for Platforma HD

2 - EyeTV sat receiver with CAM and Ethernet video streaming output, I want to put 4 eyeTV box in a rack and network them on a LAN using macs with VLC (or a LAN version of eyeTV) to watch sat TV.

3 - Sky UK compatible eyeTV!!!
Frank

[jfutral]

1-Better multiple source integration. Things aren't too bad when I have the same source attached to both inputs of my HDHomerun, say an antenna attached to both inputs. The issue gets bad when I have, say an antenna and ClearQAM connected. There are still local channels (or at least channels I can pick up with my antenna) that the local cable company does not provide via clearqam, or don't provide as HD, and vice versa..

2-I don't know if this is strictly a physiological limitation (as in it just isn't physically possible with the way a video stream works) or if this is a software or license limitation, but it drives me nuts to need several tuners for the same source (say a clearqam signal) for more than one computer to watch that source. Is there anyway that multiple EyeTV's can watch the same tuner?

3-An iPhone App remote that doesn't use the TV as the menu screen, but uses the iPhone instead. I don't care much for wireless streaming since it doesn't stream live TV (at least AFAIK. Correct me if I am wrong). But my family would be much happier if I went through, say, the guide, on my iPhone instead of interrupting their viewing pleasure.

Overall, the focus, from my perspective, always needs to be a spouse-friendly interface. My wife doesn't care what I need to do to set things up to work. She only cares that it works and works in a way she can understand without any technobabble or technoprocedures. I can be the geek all I want as far she cares. But when it comes to her, she has no time for it. Especially, if I am the one insisting this is the better solution to our home entertainment.

Thanks,
Joe

[martianpete]

1. This might be a fantasy but I would LOVE to see in future models or maybe as an add on, which would be better since mine doesn't have one, but I would love to see some sort of development where eye tv can have an HDMI output which is also integrated with my computer's hard drive so I can use the device as a DVR box. That would be amazing to have control of live tv ala Tivo or DVR with my eye tv. I have tried this with a DVI to HDMI cable on my mac but for one it didn't look that good and 2. for some reason, it blew out my logic board so I"m not trying that one again any time soon.

2. Another one would be better HD exports to Apple TV. The current one stinks. It doesn't even do 1280 X 720 output which is lower than any broadcast TV, the best quality that I can get is only 920 X 540. Shows bought and rented in HD at the Apple store are already extremely better.

3. no third request at the moment.

[matuyan]

1. multiple tuners support.
2. recording stability
3. archive recording program num scalability

supplement
1. AnalogTV will end 2011/7 in Japan. I will use to externel ISDB-T Tuner for three eye tv hardware,so I will have to specify to eyetv&ext.Tuner one by one.

2. macro block issue is still occured at v3.2.

3. When recording programs are over 2,000, EyeTV operation is too slowly.

[dblanch369]

1. Support Multiple Tuners better!
2. Improved Channel Lineups (goes hand-in-hand with #1)
3. Fix the editor's Fine-Tuning timing