[CUBE] TV Recording

[M. Jeffrey Coco]

Rob - I'd give recording on the internal the first shot. Why not just 
try a 10 minute test?  When I try to capture DV footage in iMovie to my 
FW external, even though it's a 7200rpm with a 911 chipset, blah, blah, 
blah....it still drops frames. I hear you on the music collection - 
mine's 40gig, and I'll probably be moving it to the external.

I use an EyeTv. Files don't take up as much space as it uses MPEG1. An 
hour takes up about 1.2gig, but I'm sure that your picture quality is 
far superior.

Good Luck,
Jeff Coco

On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 04:57 AM, Rob In der Maur wrote:

> Hi Cube experts,
>
> I need your advice on the following: I have a Formac Studio DV/TV 
> convertor which allows me to watch television on my Cube. I also 
> should be able to record TV through this device.
> When I'm recording, things start quite ok, but eventually video and 
> sound are getting choppy. It seems like the Cube cannot cope with the 
> amount of data it has to capture.
> I'm using Formac's native application for it as well as a freeware 
> application named Vidi. Both application just spit out the incoming TV 
> signal to digital video without doing any compression. It means that 5 
> minutes of TV approx. generate 1GB of data. It all goes to an external 
> LaCie Firewire harddisk of 120MB.
> Now I just want get some feeling what is the root of all evil here:
> - is it the external firewire disk (should I optimize it one way or 
> another or should I use the internal IDE drive for capturing); I also 
> have my whole music library on it
> - is it OS X which simply cannot handle this
> - is it my Cube which cannot handle the troughput on the Firewire port
> - is it my processor (500Mhz) and will an upgrade help
> - is it something else?
>
> Any advice appreciated.
>
> cheers
> Rob