What a great day for OS X


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Well you have probably seen all new software from apple today, it is all pretty good, but this following hint just made my day.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...040426151111599

It was posted this morning, and I just tested it on my iBook. I had been wondering what all the USB/Firewire ports did on my Comcast HDTV Tuner, and now I know. I can record any show in HDTV or Standard TV and from any device that I plug into the inputs on the front of my tuner.

HDTV @ 1080i downsized to fit on a 1024x768 screen looks amazing, and it can be encoded (really slowly) to 3ivX files that still look great.

I am going to need a XServe RAID really soon if I keep finding things like this, and a new G5 to beable to playback high bit-rate files like this properly.

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What codec are you using, the new apple one? I wonder what is being transfered over the firewire, your box is getting a 22Mbit MPEG2 signal. I guess it is getting transcoded to something.... again, what codec are you using.

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What codec are you using, the new apple one? I wonder what is being transfered over the firewire, your box is getting a 22Mbit MPEG2 signal. I guess it is getting transcoded to something.... again, what codec are you using.

It stays in the original MPEG2 codec, nothing is done but saving the stream on your HD. VLC plays the files, but my G3 cant play them at more then a few frames per second. 480i files play fine, but they are just standard TV quality.

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Cool, I bet they wold look great re-mpeged and burned off to a DVD. You could go from HBO-HD to DVD to archive programs. They would look as good as the store bought ones if you can recompress at a high enough bit rate.

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Cool, I bet they wold look great re-mpeged and burned off to a DVD. You could go from HBO-HD to DVD to archive programs. They would look as good as the store bought ones if you can recompress at a high enough bit rate.

Yeah it would look about the same as an original DVD, better if you can use a higher bit-rate, the only problem is I can only get about 1-2fps while re-encoding the files because they are so large.

But on the Dual 3ghz G5 that should be out in a few months it would be a bit faster.....

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