TVMax, EyeTV, and built-in compression?

[DaveC]

I'm sure, at one time, I had exported a video (recorded from broadcast) to
iPod format (probably H.264) and it took a few seconds. It's been awhile
since I did that, so memory is a bit fuzzy...

When I tried a conversion today it took a half an hour because EyeTV is using
software and the Mac's processor to do the conversion.

I've looked through EyeTV but can't find any option to utilize hardware
compression, or otherwise.

Can EyeTV 3 have hardware compression via the TVMax box?

Mac Intel Mini 1.83 GHz / 2 GB / 230 GB
OS X 10.5.6
TVMax (PN/5, firmware 01.04, encoder version 0199000e)
EyeTV 3

Thanks,
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[Wesley Konrad]

I don't know the TVMax box but is it possible that the time you did it
before you had been encoding the video in h.264 and that now it is
encoding in something else like mpeg2?

[John Holt]

On 2009-02-09 00:34:45 -0500, DaveC <m...@bogusdomain.net> said:

> I'm sure, at one time, I had exported a video (recorded from broadcast) to
> iPod format (probably H.264) and it took a few seconds. It's been awhile
> since I did that, so memory is a bit fuzzy...
>
> When I tried a conversion today it took a half an hour because EyeTV is using
> software and the Mac's processor to do the conversion.
>
> I've looked through EyeTV but can't find any option to utilize hardware
> compression, or otherwise.
>
> Can EyeTV 3 have hardware compression via the TVMax box?
>
> Mac Intel Mini 1.83 GHz / 2 GB / 230 GB
> OS X 10.5.6
> TVMax (PN/5, firmware 01.04, encoder version 0199000e)
> EyeTV 3
>
> Thanks,

I do not know anything about TVMax, but the conversion to H.264 has 3
options with respect to resolution, and then the fastest is to MPEG-4.

Perhaps you selected (or changed the default) from MPEG-4 to H.264 640x480?

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John Holt