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DVArchive 3.2

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DVArchive allows your computer to act like a "Virtual ReplayTV". You can download shows from your ReplayTV to burn to DVD/VCD, play shows from your ReplayTV right on your desktop and play shows that are stored on your computer right from your ReplayTV/TV screen.

Among its more interesting features are:

See what shows your ReplayTV(s) have recorded right from your computer
Automatically finds your ReplayTVs
Download shows from your ReplayTV to your computer to watch, archive, burn to DVD/VCD, etc
Automatic support for Replay 4xxx and 5xxx Series

What's New

Version 3.2 release notes available here.

Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.3 or later, Java 1.4.2 or later.

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Steve Frawley commented on 27 Oct 2011

To simplify the search for a Lion compatible version:
Below Mschmitt pointed to:

http://www.dvarchive.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3320

Which has been properly modified to run on Lion.
Thanx Mschmitt

[Version 3.2]

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Steve Frawley commented on 07 May 2011

Any tips on the best place to find info on running DVArchive to under Lion? I would like to have the option.

[Version 3.2]

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Roger Wilco replied on 25 May 2011

So far this doesn't seem very likely. Lion won't have Rosetta so will not run PowerPC applications. In principle the developers just have to recompile the container app to run on Intel (DVA is actually a JAVA application) but there's been no sign of any Mac support for years. Fortunately the current four-year-old build still runs OK.

This is a terrific application, it will be a great loss.

Roger Wilco replied on 25 May 2011

OK, this should work (with some caveats). Right click on the DVArchive application and select "show package contents". Navigate to Contents/Resources/Java, click on the icon for DVArchiveMac.jar and make an alias. Drag this alias somewhere convenient and you should be able to use it to run the application without its Mac OSX container.

Now about those caveats: ugly Java Menus, no proper icon, no server (you can't watch Mac files on the ReplayTV though you can upload OK). Basically you've unwound most of the enhancements mentioned in the Mac OS X READ ME FIRST file included with DVA. I don't have Lion but I tested this on 10.6.7 with Rosetta disabled.

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Qb replied on 25 Jul 2011

RW - I've done this a have only the DVArchive Menu across the top of the Mac screen (along with the desired DVArchive window). So for example if one of my RTVs does not show up I can no longer pick the menu item that allowed me to force DVA to look for recent RTVs. Do you get a full menubar at the top of the Mac screen?

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Qb replied on 25 Jul 2011

I should have noted I am using Lion - not 10.6.x are RW tested.

lclarkrtv2 replied on 07 Aug 2011

I started a thread about this on the AVS Forum and found a solution. The thread is at http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1349043

Mschmitt replied on 07 Aug 2011

See http://www.dvarchive.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3320

macgnus commented on 12 Jul 2006

Installed 3.2 and changed Java prefs to use 5.0. Works very well so far. Seems to start up faster and streaming shows with Quicktime works great. You GO Gerry!!!!!!!

[Version 3.2]

jshop commented on 20 Feb 2006

Has anyone gotten this to run under Tiger? I'm currently on 10.4.5 and this program gives an error when I first try to run it and it won't launch.

[Version 3.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 16 Jul 2004

That's really cool.. I don't have a replay tv but this software would make it much more beneficial to own one.

[Version 3.0]

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Version Downloads:2,868

Type:Multimedia & Design : Video

License:Free

Date:12 Jul 2006

Platform:PPC

Price:Free

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See what shows your ReplayTV(s) have recorded right from your computer
Automatically finds your ReplayTVs
Download shows from your ReplayTV to your computer to watch, archive, burn to DVD/VCD, etc
Automatic support for Replay 4xxx and 5xxx Series units
Turn your computer into a virtually unlimited capacity ReplayTV show archive
Schedule automatic downloads of shows from your ReplayTV to your computer
Schedule automatic purging/deleting of shows you don't like but which your ReplayTV keeps recording
Watch previously downloaded shows OR watch shows directly from your ReplayTV without having to download them first
Control your ReplayTV remotely (turn it on, off, delete shows, etc)
Manage your ReplayTVs photos (coming in V2.1)
Control your ReplayTV from your computer (coming in V2.1)
Has a clean interface that allows you to see and use all your ReplayTVs from one place
A whole heck of a lot more!

DVArchive supports all ReplayTV 4xxx and 5xxx series units.

DVArchive is free (it's even Open Sourced and GPLd - look at the source if you are interested) and runs on any platform Java V1.4 or later runs on (Windows, Macs, Linux, Solaris, etc). The Open Source development community for it is hosted by SourceForge. Note that for the Mac OSX, you'll have to get a developers release of Java 1.4.1 (it's not official yet, but it's free to get it - details included in the MacOS download).

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