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I don't know what is causing this, it may be a frame sync issue between the source device and the EyeTV or the EyeTV might be falling behind in its video processing. What I see from my EyeTV HD is intermittent broken cadence, so I may get a pattern that looks like 2:3:3:2. 2:3:2:3:2:3) until you have all sixty frames that reproduce the 24 frames in the original progressive source. You can also confirm the frame drops by looking carefully at the cadence in a 720p60 recording, where from a 24fps source you should see a consistent cadence of two repeated frames followed by three repeated frames which repeat in a regular pattern (i.e. I haven't confirmed the latter behavior on the EyeTV HD, but I've seen such problems on other analog video recorders so I suspect that it may also happen on the EyeTV HD (Why haven't I tried that test myself? Because right now I don't have any cable or over-the-air TV, I just have my Apple TV, Netflix, Hulu Plus, and DVDs/Blu-rays). If you record from a source like this you will probably see that the text crawl will no longer have a smooth motion, it will have little jumps in the playback which indicate that the recording has lost some frames. However, one quick test is to record from a program that has a text crawl along the bottom or top of the image (like CNN Headline News). However, they'd probably be much more noticeable when viewed on your computer monitor.
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Note, these issues are pretty subtle, I doubt that most users would even notice the dropped frames that happen at 720p60, but the cadence breaks caused by the dropped frames make it almost impossible to convert film-based material back to their original 24fps rate.Ĭlick to expand.If you're just doing casual viewing of recordings on your TV you may not notice the dropped frames.
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I'm going to try some recordings at 480p to see if that works with the EyeTV HD (update, that didn't seem to help so I have yet to find a way to do really clean analog captures). SD units can't really handle the SD data rates and the HD units appear to have problems handling HD). The standard definition units drop frames even at SD sizes and now I'm seeing a similar result with the HD units, it seems that they are all over spec'd (i.e. This problem is similar to the issues I've had with other analog video recorders, I've yet to find an analog recorder that can do flawless recording. I'm still experimenting with the EyeTV HD recording, so I may find a solution but as yet I'm not too impressed with the unit itself.
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I doing my captures on a Mac Pro, 4x2.66GHz so I don't think it is a problem with the performance of my hardware and the drives that I am recording to are internal, 1TB, Western Digital Blacks which should easily handle the data rates needed to write the files. The net result is that there appears to be no way to get high-quality HD recordings out of this unit (because of the dropped frames). I can't get a clean 1080i 30fps cadence during captures and while the recordings at 720p60 look pretty good I still see dropped frames that also break the cadence in the progressive 60 frame-per-second output. I also have one of the EyeTV HD units (offers direct HD component inputs and H.264 out at up to 12Mbps) and while I haven't done extensive comparisons of sharpness I can report that the unit appears to be unable to record HD video without dropping frames. Elgato claims I should not be experiencing this and their tech support has yet to reply to me after this issue has been elevated.
Please let me know if you are also experiencing the "double-image" issue, this will explain a lot of things then. I second what you are saying, there is a huge drop off between the DVR quality on my TV screen and what is showing on my computer. It is more obvious on text than on a moving image but the issue of a "double-image" is what is causing the picture quality to be so poor.
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Also, if you look closely at the attachment of a movie I screen captured, you can also see the double image if you look closely at the channel logo on the lower right hand corner. If you look closely at the text, you can see an outline of each word, it's almost like a shadow. Can you please take a look at my screen capture attachments? Please let me know if you are experiencing the same type of image quality by looking at the attachment with the menu text.