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Currently, a lot of people are receiving eMails advertising CYTV stock.
This is a Chinese company, and I have nothing whatsoever to do with them
or with the people sending these eMails (which are scammers who are just
abusing this company for their pump-and-dump scheme). Yes, this website
shows up first on Google for "cytv", but that's because of my software
project "CyTV", which is in no way related to the company with the stock
symbol "CYTV". It's an unfortunate name/abbreviation clash - that's all.
No one is advertising this website, and the first Google result is not
always what you're looking for. Google is not God!
Please stop sending me eMails asking me to "take me off your list" or saying
"you are sending spam"!
Thank you!
PS A lot of people are suggesting that I should "clear my name" and
"fix it", even though I have nothing to do with it. Just ask yourself
this question: What would you do if you had a private homepage that
would be mistaken as a source of stock spam? How would you "fix it"?
Just ask yourself this before demanding a fix from me!
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Screenshot (click to enlarge)
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CyTV is a streaming solution for elgato's EyeTV
family of TV tuners. It allows you to watch TV and recorded programs over
a local network (wired or wireless) or the internet.
You can pause and resume live TV on the client ("timeshift"), and you can
also change channels remotely. Details about the supported tuner models
can be found in the
compatibility chart
below.
The CyTV Server requires a Mac with an EyeTV unit. On the
client(s), you can use the
VideoLAN Client (VLC) media player
to play the stream, so you can watch on any platform supported
by VLC (and there are many!).
The distribution also contains a special client application for Macs
that gives you more control (like watching previous recordings, skipping
back and forth, etc.).
For more information, see the
manual which
is also included in the distribution.
CyTV is distributed under the
GNU General Public License. If you like it and
want to support development, please consider making a donation!
Enjoy!
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04/26/2006
New beta version 0.6-pre5 with the following fixes:
- Fixed a problem that prevented the client from connecting
via Rendezvous/Bonjour on Intel Macs.
- Fixed several transcoding problems (including crashes, not receiving
audio and/or video, and lip sync issues).
04/22/2006
New beta version 0.6-pre4 with the following fix:
- Fixed an endian problem in the network code that would prevent the client
from working correctly and the server from quitting cleanly. This issue
only affected Intel Macs.
04/18/2005
There's now a Yahoo! Group for CyTV where
you can discuss features, problems, etc. with other users. I can't promise how
active I'll be there, but I'll stop by from time to time.
04/18/2006
New beta version 0.6-pre3 with the following improvements:
- CyTV is now a universal binary.
- You can now select an audio track for transcoding.
- Recordings made with EyeTV EZ and similar models
should now work for streaming.
and fixes:
- Channel names are now determined reliably.
- Fixed a crash when starting the server.
- The durations of live streams and recordings are now
determined more reliably.
- Various other fixes (see change log)
01/30/2006
New version 0.5.4 with the following improvements:
- Support for EyeTV 2
- Support for VLC 0.8.4a (although because of
artifacts in MPEG-2 playback,
you might want to stay with 0.8.2 for now)
- Integration of the current ffmpeg CVS version
and fixes:
- Fixed the initial 1-minute delay when transcoding MPEG2 streams
- Fixed a problem with newer EyeTV versions where the TV window could
not be closed by CyTV
- Automatically reset the stream and restart VLC if it hangs (e.g.
when the aspect ratio changes)
- Don't try to connect in manual mode when the hostname/IP field is empty
01/12/2006
Daniel Knippers has started development of a
Windows client application for CyTV!
CyTV can work with numerous devices supported by the EyeTV software. The table below shows
which devices can be used with CyTV for streaming live TV and recordings:
Device |
Live TV streaming |
Streaming of recordings |
EyeTV USB |
Yes |
Yes |
EyeTV Wonder USB 2.0 |
No |
Maybe (3) |
EyeTV 200 |
Yes |
Yes |
EyeTV 250 |
Yes (1)(4) |
Yes (1) |
EyeTV 300/310 |
Yes (1) |
Yes (1) |
EyeTV 400/410 |
Yes (1) |
Yes (1) |
EyeTV 500 |
Yes (1) |
Yes (1) |
EyeTV 610 |
Yes |
Yes |
EyeTV EZ |
No |
Maybe (3) |
EyeTV for DTT (TerraTec Cinergy T2) |
Yes (1) |
Yes (1) |
TerraTec Cinergy 400/450 |
No |
Maybe (3) |
TerraTec Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS (Digital mode) |
Probably (2) |
Probably (2) |
TerraTec Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS (Analog mode) |
No |
Maybe (3) |
Satelco EasyWatch |
Probably (2) |
Probably (2) |
Plextor ConvertX (PX-TV402U) |
Yes (1) |
Yes (1) |
Miglia EvolutionTV |
Probably (2) |
Probably (2) |
Miglia TVMini |
Yes (1) |
Yes (1) |
Miglia TVMini HD |
Probably (2) |
Probably (2) |
Miglia TVMicro |
No |
Maybe (3) |
SCM CardBus DVB-T |
Probably (2) |
Probably (2) |
Twinhan DTV Alpha DVB-T |
Yes (1) |
Yes (1) |
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(1) According to user feedback (not tested by myself).
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(2) Not confirmed by anyone, but I don't see a
reason why it shouldn't work. Feedback is welcome!
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(3) Experimentally supported in CyTV, but untested.
Feedback is needed!
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(4) Not in Game Mode.
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Download the disk image linked to below and open it. The included Read Me
will tell you all you need to know to use CyTV.
On the clients (Mac or other), you need the
VLC player. The CyTV disk image also
contains a special CyTV client for Mac OS X (but you still need VLC in
addition to it!).
Last update: 10/08/2006
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