EyeTV and the case of the missing iTunes Library
A short while ago we brought into the whole AppleTV thing from the Australian Online Apple Store.
Why you ask ? You live in Australia the ITMS doesn't sell videos or movies? Yes but, we also have an EyeTV unit to record all of those show's that we don't get to watch live - which would be most of them. Slight digression here but have you any idea how much time is consumed with work, school, sports and general survival tasks (like shopping) - the modern society calls out for TV-on-demand - it rarely has time to sit down and watch a show at the same time each week.
Anyway back to the EyeTV AppleTV thing. The EyeTV has been setup to record all those shows on at the wrong time and with the advent of the AppleTV set to dump them out to iTunes automatically (using a Tubo.264). This worked well until we got a bit busy and show's started piling up and the Mac Mini we use as a media server just ran out of room.
This was simple enough to solve, get an external drive. So after a bit of research we got one of those Mini sized hard disk drives and moved the iTunes library over to it. As it was a big enough drive I also pointed the EyeTV to it for storing its Archive folder which holds all the schedules and recordings.
The next day I noticed that the EyeTV software was quitting and after a little investigation I found that the AppleTV and iPod export buttons would cause an immediate crash. The workaround currently is to place an alias of the iTunes Library folder in your Music folder.
Situation:
EyeTV 410 running on a Mac Mini has been running fine for some time, recently an external hard disk was added as the iTunes library has gotten to large for the Mini's internal drive. The iTunes library was subsequently moved to the new external drive and iTunes was launched and pointed correctly to the drive - other iLife applications can find the iTunes media without a problem.
Problem:
After moving the iTunes library to the external drive EyeTV crashes when using iPod or AppleTV buttons to export files. It does not crash using the "Export" menu item from the File menu.
Expected Result:
EyeTV would find the iTunes library in the same way iLife programs do.
Workaround:
Place an alias in the Music folder pointing to the real iTunes library.
Status:
Reported to Elgato.
25 Aug. 2007 - Elgato are on to it and they grabbed a copy of my "iTunes Library.xml" - apparently I'm not the first to have this problem. Not that its a major issue but it's nice to get a quick response.
