 | May 26 2008 |
GRAHAM JONES Hi (From Developer), I always knew that Elgato would catch up with me -- iEye Captain was mainly useful during the time EyeTV was not delivering infrared or multiple hard drive support, and now that these are both possible within EyeTV, interest in my app has really bottomed out. As a result, I can not afford the development time necessary for a full Leopard update. Version 1.0.8.3 has been workable on Leopard for most users -- if you have bugs to report, by all means please do email them to me. I can't promise any ETA, but if I get enough requests I will try to put some time in over the summer. Thanks for understanding, Developer.
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| Jan 14 2008 |
GRAHAM JONES PARTIAL LEOPARD SUPPORT I have run into some snags, and will unfortunately not have a full Leopard-compatible version until sometime in February. However, you may have better luck using Leopard with this build: http://www.sjones.info/Downloads/iEyeCaptain1083.zip Thanks for your patience, Developer
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| Nov 29 2007 |
GRAHAM JONES Hi (from developer), I am currently working on Leopard compatibility and expect to release a free update sometime in December. However, I can confirm that until I release this update iEye Captain WILL NOT WORK ON MAC OS 10.5 / LEOPARD. Thanks for your patience. Developer.
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| Oct 25 2007 |
just a reminder that I have not yet tested iEye Captain on Leopard -- I will be getting my copy as soon as I can once they go on sale, and I'll do my best to run it through its paces. If you do decide to upgrade to Mac OS 10.5 and encounter any issues, please contact me directly by email (use "Contact Developer" or "Report a bug by email" from inside the app), and I will do my best to fix the issues quickly. Developer.
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| Apr 3 2007 |
GRAHAM JONES Hi (from developer), 2 PPC users have reported problems launching 1.0.7. I am working on a fix and should have it within a couple of days. if you are also experiencing this issue (or to give me an all clear) please email me at info@vidcan.com and let me know the details of your system and the symptoms. Developer.
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| Mar 7 2007 |
The other user who had the same problem reported that cleaning system caches, doing cron jobs (regular Unix system maintenance by a tool like MacJanitor), repairing permissions, rebooting, and re-installing fixed it. It may have only been one of the above... a bad cache file, or something particular to her system... If you experience this problem you may want to try the same steps. They are helpful maintenance steps to do every so often anyway. Developer
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 | Mar 3 2007 |
It hangs and hangs and hangs for minutes and nothing happens .... Always finish by force to quit. It has finished with CleanApp.
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| Mar 6 2007 |
I received one other report of this, but haven't yet been able to isolate what conflict might be causing this. Can you please post back or email me with system details? The only other report was on a PPC Mac... Are you running it on an Intel or PPC Mac? Graham Jones, Developer.
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 | Mar 2 2007 |
CHIEFTED iEyeCaptain has been and will be a lifesaver for me! During the "dark times" of Tivo not supporting the Mac community by providing TivoToGo for Macs, iEyeCaptain (along with EyeTV and an IR Blaster) still provides an alternative to Tivo, ReplayTV and homebrewed PVRs. Set up is easy. Using it is even easier. Developer has always responded with great info or troubleshooting tips (I had one small problem and Graham responded straight away). I understand Graham not developing this anymore (I wish he would continue but I understand), still with iEye Captain and EyeTV I have a better and cheaper solution to Tivo. Oh my Tivo now is pretty much a back up drive for those I want to record something else at the same time. | |
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| Mar 2 2007 |
GRAHAM JONES Hi Chiefted, Many thanks for your kind comments. I hope no one thinks by not adding "new" features that it's not still a great and very usable program. Also, I'm still very much around, and will be actively supporting it. Who knows, when I update it for Leopard support I might "accidentally" add a feature or two. ;-) Graham.
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| Mar 2 2007 |
GRAHAM JONES I have made the tough decision that though I will continue to support and debug iEye Captain, I will be discontinuing development of new features. Recent changes in EyeTV are making it difficult to innovate the way that I used to, and because Elgato doesn't share their development schedule with me, I can spend months developing something that is obsolete the day after I introduce it. iEye Captain's tool box, including rapid-fire screenshots, iCal, alias, and text exporting, infrared control, savable advanced searches, and other features will still be useful for quite some time, and most are unlikely to be added by Elgato anytime soon. And with the new $15 purchase price, it is more cost-effective than ever to add these features. Thanks for understanding, Developer.
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| May 27 2006 |
HAPPYMAC My original purpose in purchasing iEye Captain was to control the channel switching of my Satellite TV Set Top Box. I have EyeTV 200 and the Zephir USB IR remote. That combination works beautifully and provides "one click" timed recording. However, in addition to my original desire I keep finding new uses for iEye Captain. It allows convienent viewing of multiple EyeTV archives and helps with organizing, maintaining and exporting the videos and descriptions. I'm extremely pleased with iEye Captain and would recommend it for all EyeTV users.
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| Jan 22 2006 |
FITZAGE A couple of years ago, after finally switching to digital cable, I wanted a way to have my eyeTV box change channels on my cable box. Of course this wasn't happening, so I switched to ReplayTV. I was tired of paying for Replay service, so I went looking for something that would integrate with eyeTV and operate an IR transmitter to change the channels on my cable box. There are many other things that iEye Captain can do, but this is all I use it for and it does an incredible job. The one problem I've had, the developer has been very responsive about and has told me exactly where it fits into the development schedule (although he has since said that it will be in the next build instead of waiting until when he was originally going to fix it). Granted, it's not perfect because it is beta software. It is amazing that a single developer with a day job has been able to put this kind of work into the project. Kudos!
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| Jan 17 2006 |
MACHUPICCHU This software is great and fulfills all my needs: I've got an EyeTV200 that is recording off a digital cable set-top box (UK Samsung ntl box), and this program allows me to set the recording dates/time in iCal in order to control automatically the channel changes on the set-top box via an IR remote (iRed) - my dream come true! I can also move the recordings across an AirPort network (with the Archive Mover feature) between different drives and play from multiple archives. Okay so that's brilliant just for my own very specific set-up, but it's got plenty of other features too, so it's definitely worth checking out for your own set-up if there's something that EyeTV's own software can't do. Bearing in mind that's it's in beta mode i.e. still under development (and if you've got questions the developer is very responsive), that's pretty impressive stuff.
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| Jan 14 2006 |
RC Exactly what features does this add to EyeTV that make it worh the shareware fee? iCal integration? A remote for which you need other software and hardware? (most newer EyeTvs already have a remote built in) Playlists? I don't know. It just seems redundant to me Still, as a piece of software, I find the latest version quite stable and usable. If you really NEED the feaures it gives, it would not hurt to give it a try
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| Jan 14 2006 |
GRAHAM JONES Hi RC (from developer), Thanks for your comments. You're absolutely right, my app is not for everyone... I passed a battery-powered drill and a table saw at a half-price clearance sale today, and boy would I have loved to buy them! But of course I didn't buy them, because I knew I would almost never NEED them. That said, there are countless EyeTV users (especially those with an analog unit) who desperately need a way to control their cable box or satellite for a higher quality image and more channels -- iEye Captain is the ONLY way to do this, and I've had to work many hours with 3 different hardware developers to make this happen. Lots of people have databases to keep track of their recordings--- iEye Captain is the only way to get non-video data out of EyeTV without a painful cut & paste process. If you are even a moderate EyeTV user, you can find you quickly run out of hard drive space... again, iEye Captain is the only way to use more than one hard drive with EyeTV--- up to 7 drives. Many people have streaming devices that depend on aliases or symbolic links to stream to their devices. Especially with EyeTV 1's cryptic naming scheme, iEye Captain proves indipensible for this. Until EyeTV 2.0, iEye Captain was the only way to have playlists... And many users have 700-800 recordings at once--- the advanced search can be incredibly helpful-- for instance, finding which shows have been edited already and are ready to burn. I love EyeTV 2.0 -- but I sure wish I could sort my the episode name, which I very often need to do,,, So is it for everyone? No, definitely not... If someone just bought EyeTV to be like a Tivo, and they don't need to control a cable box or satellite, they may not find one thing useful. But there are tons of people that have been begging Elgato for exactly these features -- those are the people this app is for. Graham Jones
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