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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 964402" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>On some cable boxes there is an active firewire port which can be used to connect the box to a Macs firewire port. The output can then be captured. there are some problems that you may encounter:</p><p>1. Some providers have blocked this port via a firmware update (there may be an FCC rule in place that still prohibits them form doing this. I haven't checked recently).</p><p>2. Even with an active connection some programming will not transfer over properly with the result being either no picture/no sound. This seems to be a result of the copy protection flags on some content.</p><p></p><p>As far as software goes I have been using <a href="http://www.steventoth.net/blog/products/avc-noodle/" target="_blank">steventoth.net AVC Noodle</a> a bit and also a program called AVC Video Cap which is part of the Firewire SDK available from the Apple site for free. There used to be a program called iRecord available but I don't think it is in active development anymore. If anyone knows otherwise please post.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 964402, member: 131855"] On some cable boxes there is an active firewire port which can be used to connect the box to a Macs firewire port. The output can then be captured. there are some problems that you may encounter: 1. Some providers have blocked this port via a firmware update (there may be an FCC rule in place that still prohibits them form doing this. I haven't checked recently). 2. Even with an active connection some programming will not transfer over properly with the result being either no picture/no sound. This seems to be a result of the copy protection flags on some content. As far as software goes I have been using [url=http://www.steventoth.net/blog/products/avc-noodle/]steventoth.net AVC Noodle[/url] a bit and also a program called AVC Video Cap which is part of the Firewire SDK available from the Apple site for free. There used to be a program called iRecord available but I don't think it is in active development anymore. If anyone knows otherwise please post. [/QUOTE]
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