Post EyeTV 250 Screenshots?

[ftaok]

Anyone know or can contribute anything?

I don't have 1st hand experience, but I've read so much info on all of these devices, I think I can contribute something.

Anyways, what are you trying to do with video games? Are you just trying to play the game using the Mac's monitor as the screen? Or are you trying to record your video game sessions?

As far as I know, the 250 has a "Game Mode" which turns off the hardware encoding. Sounds counter-intuitive, I know, but when you use the hardware encoding, you introduce lag. So game play is almost unplayable.

If you want to record, it's probably better to use a splitter and send the signal from the video game to a regular TV and to the EyeTV250. You play via the TV and record on the Mac.

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[TheSpaz]

I've been playing with this EyeTV 250 and I think turning Game Mode on makes the TV picture smoother! Can anyone back this up? I know it turns off Hardware Encoding so, I'm thinking my powerful Mac Pro can encode at a greater quality than the EyeTV 250 hardware!

Does anyone else have this experience?

Also, I no longer use the EyeTV software to export my videos... I simply use a registered copy of VisualHub (Yes, I broke down and bought it) and it works a lot faster and has a lot better options (Cropping and such). Anyone who has an EyeTV 250... give "Game Mode" a try with TV channels and also try out VisualHub (You can drag the .eyetv file directly to VisualHub to convert the video with the least amount of quality loss.

WooHoo!