Since I use a Time Capsule with the wireless connection set up in bridge mode (having been through a similar song-and-dance routine from when I was trying to get Back to My Mac to work), I'm certain this isn't a hardware issue on my end. I found that in order to get MyEyeTV working at all, I had to disable my firewall entirely setting the OS X firewall to enable access to EyeTV and EyeTVConnect didn't allow it to work, with the application's preferences throwing up an error saying my router was incompatible. Unfortunately, the app's functionality falls flat over a remote connection. Again, streaming over my local network almost always worked well, so long as I wasn't trying to play back content on my Mac at the same time. You can set video quality on Live TV from 80 kbps to 800 kbps, and there's also a setting that allows you to always use highest quality when you're on a local network.

Apparently the strain of displaying content on my Mac and simultaneously streaming it to my iPhone was just too much for a 2.6 GHz processor to handle. I found the only way to get reliable, stutter-free playback on my iPhone was to close the EyeTV playback window on my Mac. Live TV takes longer to load on your iPhone and is far more finicky. Recorded content plays back almost immediately with barely a stutter to be seen - the caveat to this is that all recorded content has to be rendered into a format the iPhone will understand, which can take a while if you have a slower Mac. Unsurprisingly, just like SlingPlayer, access over 3G isn't possible.Īccessing either live or recorded TV over your local network is simple, and usually works well. The $4.99 app lets you view live and recorded TV on your iPhone or iPod touch over your local network, and it also allows you to access the same content from a remote WiFi location using a service called MyEyeTV. Elgato, maker of EyeTV, has released EyeTV for iPhone, an app that allows access to both live and recorded video content from any Mac running EyeTV 3.2 or later.

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