Watching TV on your Mac using firewire

This tutorial requires a Mac with a firewire 400 port (800 requites 800-400 adapter), a firewire enabled cable box (required by cable companies from 2006), and a few pieces of software...Enjoy!

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Developer-Tools/Apple-FireWire-SDK-X.shtml

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Mac
• TV
• Firewite
• cable
• box
• HDTV
• HD
• Watching
• on
• your
• using
• channels

[r56mini]

I have a comcast cable box. I was able to open it on AV/C but when I click on Start Viewer my VLC player does not open automatically.  And when I open the VLC player manually, it does not have a udp:\\ assigned so I don't have a number.

what should I do?? hmmm...

[Cajunomics]

i need this on pc running windows 7. any help would be great. thanks

[Ditechite]

Forgot to mention that in order to record, you will need to use another application that comes with the FirewireSDK called AVCVideoCap

[Ditechite]

it captures as a .m2t file so you would have to find some sort of  converter to do this...

[MeMyselfAndIPods]

i just need the firewire wire

[TechExplosion]

Great video, If I had a Mac I'd try this.

5*'s.